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Professors Lauren Poyer and Andy Meyer standing in seaweed, watching as students climb around on tidepool rocks. Photo taken on South Beach, San Juan Island.
Norwegian Retreat
Book cover of Nordic War Stories; WWII as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory. The cover depicts a single truck, carrying a coffin covered by the Norwegian flag, driving in a snowy forest landscape.
Faculty Publication
Katherine Hanson and Olav Hauge
Affiliate Associate Professor Katherine Hanson Honored with Anvil Award 
Camille
Camille Witbeck Receives Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Study, 2020-2021
Andy, Ella, and Willa Nestingen
2019 Letter From the Chair
Andy Meyer making lefse
Get to know our new Norwegian instructor, Andy Meyer!
Melissa Gjellstad
Melissa Gjellstad - M.A., 2000, Ph.D., 2004
Sons of Norway Logo
Sons of Norway Foundation Scholarships
Assistant Professor Olivia Gunn
Olivia Gunn's research on  Den Store Barnedåpen and The Alberta Trilogy
Anna Ruhl
Anna  Rühl  Awarded Aurora Borealis Prize, 2016
Kristina Legangar Iversen
Reading Scand Guilt in Contemporary Poetry 
Assistant Professor Olivia Gunn and PhD Student Liina-Ly Roos
Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor Olivia Gunn
Olivia Gunn
Olivia Gunn on the Tragic Quotidian in Ibsen and Maeterlinck
Julianne Yang
Norwegian Fulbrighter Julianne Yang  at Scand Studies in Winter 2016
Indigenous Sámi Culture and Connection to the Land in Arctic Europe
Indigenous Sámi Culture and Connection to the Land in Arctic Europe
Anna Ruhl
Anna Rühl  Defends PhD Dissertation on Novels of Knausgård and Espedal 
Marianne Stecher invited Keynote Speaker for AASSC at Congress 2015 for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa, June 2nd.
Norwegian Literature and Culture- Fall Course 2015- NORW 312
New Course: SCAND 462 A- Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) & Modern Nordic Women: Public Intellectuals, Pundits, and Writers
Julie Ane Ødegaard at the Odegaard Library
Bergen Exchange Visitor Julie Ane Ødegaard Researches Civic Education
The Association for Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada Announces its Annual CALL FOR PAPERS
Assistant Professor Tenure Track in Scandinavian Studies (Norwegian), Applications Due November 15, 2014
Photo of Anna Rühl
Inspired by Scholarship
Maren Anderson Johnson Defends Dissertation
New Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies, Maren Anderson Johnson
UW Norwegian Club celebrates the 200th Syttende Mai in Ballard