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Alumni & Friends

GSD welcomes alumni and friends to talks, lectures and films sponsored by the department. We also host special alumni events each year. Please e-mail us (gsd@umn.edu) with any news you would like to share, and we will post it on this page.

Some Past Alumni & Friends Events

• Alumni reception + German Play (Dada Strikes Back)
• Alumni reception + German Play (Nathan der Weise)
• Alumni luncheon with Anatoly Liberman
• A Woman for All Seasons: Astrid Lindgren at 100 + reception
• German Studies - The Undisciplined Discipline: A Conference in honor of Gerhard Weiss
• Faust in a Box + alumni & friends reception
• Keynote speech for Gender, Genre, & Political Transformation Conference honoring Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres + reception
• Dinner + the German Play (Die Heldin von Potsdam)
• Hans Christian Andersen 200th Anniversary Celebration
• 2004 Alumni Reunion

Alumni News

• Adam Oberlin (Ph.D., 2012) to be Director of the German Program at The Linsly School

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• Carrie Collenberg-Gonzalez (Ph.D., 2011) accepts tenure-track position

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• Shawn Jarvis (Ph.D., German, 1991) publishes book

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• Helga Thorson (Ph.D., 1996) granted tenure, awarded Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching

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• Mirko Hall (Ph.D., 2006) receives tenure and promotion to associate professor

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• Michael Mullins (B.A., German, 1989) receives President's Award

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• Evelyn Meyer (Ph.D., 2003) to receive tenure and promotion to associate professor

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