This fall inaugurates a year-long celebrationof two important milestones: the 10thanniversary of Scandinavia House: TheNordic Center in America, and the 100thanniversary of The American-ScandinavianFoundation (ASF.) A full year of special cul-tural and educational events are currentlybeing planned to mark the ASF Centennialyear throughout the United States and theNordic countries, and we invite all of ourFellows to take part. A complete schedule ofthe Centennial initiatives and events will bereleased in the near future on theScandinavia House website – www.scandinaviahouse.org

One ofthe highlights includes the presenta-tion of Nordic Models + Common Ground:Art and Design Unfolded, an exhibitionorganized by Norsk Form in collaborationwith The American-ScandinavianFoundation (ASF) The exhibition is curatedby the internationally renowned architecturefirm Snøhetta, which also designed theinstallation, in collaboration with Situ Studio.Nordic Models + Common Ground offers avisionary look at contemporary Nordic artand design, examining nascent trends andtheir impact on the global art and designcommunities. All of the Nordic countries—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, andSweden—are represented.

In 2010, 46 Scandinavian Fellows wereawarded nearly $573,500 in funding by theASF to carry out projects in fields as diverseas cancer research, political science, archi-tecture, environmental design, and compar-ative literature. Twenty-five American schol-ars have been awarded more than$266,000 in funding, bringing the total of2010-11 fellowships and grants to $839,500.American fellows carried out projects infields such as physics in Denmark, poetry inIceland, art conservation in Norway,Scandinavian Studies in Sweden and musi-cology in Finland.

In addition, the ASF funded a visiting lec-tureship at the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign in the field ofScandinavian Studies. Grants were alsomade to 48 institutions in the U.S. andScandinavia, in support of public projectsranging from contemporary art exhibitions todance performances.

In October 2010, the ASF held itsAnniversary Gala Dinner Dance in the pres-ence of Their Royal Highnesses CrownPrince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway. The ASF honored Icelandicartist, Ólafur Eliasson, and Barbro Osher,the Honorary Swedish Consul General inSan Francisco and president of the BarbroOsher Pro Suecia Foundation.

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From right to left: Bernt Reitan, ASFCo-Chairman; Hon. Charles andMonika Heimbold, Inger Ginsberg,Gala Co-Chairs; T.R.H. CrownPrincess Mette-Marit and CrownPrince Haakon; Lise Stolt-Nielsen,Gala Co-Chair; Richard Oldenburg,ASF Co-Chairman; EdwardGallagher, ASF President.

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Corey Arnold (2005 Fellow to Norway)currently has an exhibition entitled “SkittFiske” at the Richard Heller Gallery. Healso has an upcoming exhibition at thePortland Biennial.

Joan Backes (1991 Fellow to Norway)had a solo exhibition at the Sleeper Galleryin Edinburgh, Scotland.

Iben Falconer (2008 Fellow to Denmark)won the Aurora Borealis Prize in AreaStudies for her paper “Danish by Design:Performing the National in ContemporaryDanish Architecture,” which was presentedat the 2009 SASS conference.

Timothy Frerichs (2000 Fellow toSweden) presented an artists talk atLinnaeus Gardens at the Buffalo/ErieCounty Public Library, in conjunction withthe current Grosvenor Rare Book RoomCollection Gallery exhibit “Art of BotanicalIllustration.” The Grosvenor Rare BookRoom Collection acquired four of Frerichs’artist books/folios based on the LinnaeusGardens Series. The artist books are fromFrerichs’ tenure in Uppsala Sweden thesummer of 2000 through an ASFFellowship and subsequently for 2002-2003as a Visiting Artist of the Linnaeus Gardens,University of Uppsala Botanical Gardens.

Mimmi Fulmer (2009 Fellow to Finland)gave a lecture-recital on Nordic songs inPortland at the National College MusicSociety conference, and a lecture-recital onFinnish songs at the Nordic HeritageMuseum in Seattle. She also has anupcoming recital of Finnish songs at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison and arecital of Nordic songs in a music seriesbroadcast live on Wisconsin public radio.

Stephen Hilyard (2007 Fellow to Iceland)will have an exhibition at the ReykjavikMuseum of Photography in late 2011 orearly 2012. It will be entitled "Rapture of theDeep," which was shot in Iceland, duringhis ASF fellowship.

Andy Nestingen (1998 & 2000 Fellow toFinland), Associate Professor of Finnish inthe Department of Scandinavian Studies atthe University of Washington, received awrite-up in the Helsinki University Bulletinfor his work on Finnish director AkiKaurismäki.

Don D. Sheriff (2008 Fellow to Norway)published two articles in the Journal ofApplied Physiology, based on his researchon the human circulatory system while inOslo as an ASF Fellow.

Jan Søstuen (1995 Fellow from Norway)is currently working as Project Leader atInter IKEA Systems S.A., where he is thefranchiser for all IKEA stores worldwide.

Jo Yarrington (2007 Fellow to Iceland)has published a book featuring her mostrecent large scale, site-specific installation,“Ocular Visions” at the AldrichContemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield,CT, as well as a selection of past works inmuseums and sanctuaries

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Andy Nestingen

Stephen Hilyard’s “Pete, Everest NE Ridge 1982“

Iben Falconer

Jo Yarrington, “Ocular Visions”

Corey Arnold, “Icy Bow”

RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS BY ASF FELLOWS

Joan Backes “Carpets of Leaves”

Timothy Frerichs“Linnaeus Garden Sketchbook”

“The Way to Sálašvággi”

by Barbara SjoholmASF Fellow to Norway & Sweden, 2008

I've followed the life's journey ofDanish artist and writer EmilieDemant Hatt along many paths inScandinavia, from the village inJutland where she was born in 1873,to the Royal Academy of Art inCopenhagen, where she studied atthe turn of the century, to the shoresof Torneträsk in Swedish Lapland,where she lived with a Sami family in1907-8. Much of my research on herlife has been done in archives andmuseums, but I've also found myselfhaving coffee in Danish living rooms,where Demant Hatt's paintings hangon the walls, and standing in front ofapartment buildings where she oncelived. Over the years, with the aid ofenvelope addresses and her ownwritings, I've been able to map mostof her travels.

Yet even after translating her bookfrom 1913, With the Lapps in theHigh Mountains [Med lapperne i højf-jeldet] and writing a long biographicalintroduction, I found I still had manyquestions about her nomadic life withthe Sami. In particular, I wanted toknow more about her trek over themountains from northern Sweden toTromsdalen, outside Tromsø,Norway. Demant Hatt spent severalgrueling weeks in May and June of1908 walking on ice and throughsnow with a group of KaresuandoSami on their annual spring migra-tion. Eventually they and their vastherds of reindeer reached the tradi-tional pasturage of Tromsdalen orSálašvággi, where she spent anothermonth. With the object of seeingsome of this landscape firsthand, Imade my own way in August of 2009up to Karesuando in northernSweden and then through the moun-tains to Tromsø.

I'd been to Tromsø a few timesbefore, beginning in the early 1970swhen I had a summer dishwashing

job on the coastal steamer. A goodfriend, the author, Ragnhild Nilstun,lives there, and had opened herhome again to me. On previous tripsI'd either approached the city by boator by plane. To arrive by bus (thelonely long-distance express fromRovaniemi, with only an elderlyNorwegian and his beagle for com-pany) from the east was a change.Thunderclouds alternated with blastsof summer sunshine as we rolledalong the Balsfjord through impossi-bly picturesque mountain scenery. Iknew that Demant Hatt had comethrough those mountains, over glitter-ing plateaus and melting ice bridgesand ancient trails carved into cliff-sides. In the last stages, when thereindeer had gone on ahead, she'dprimarily been in the company ofchildren and women, many of whomwere carrying babies on their backsor equally precious puppies insidetheir fur coats.

The Sami and their reindeer hadpassed over these mountains formany centuries, at a time when therewas no border, no Sweden orNorway. The reindeer often swamacross the fjords to calve on theislands; it was first the Sami who fol-lowed them and spent their own briefsummers in the places where thereindeer decided to graze. By the19th century the migration hadbecome more complicated owing toincreased settlement. After 1905,when the Union between Sweden

and Norway ended, the Sami nowliving in Sweden had to try to man-age their herds to take particularroutes, sometimes more difficultones, so as not to conflict with thefarmers and their lands. DuringDemant Hatt's time there, the rein-deer herds poured from the moun-tains and ran overland toTromsdalen. She, along with somefellow travelers, elected instead totake the steamer along the Balsfjordto Tromsø and from there a boatover a wide channel (now spannedby the Tromsø Bridge) along the"tourist road" (still called Turistveien)to deeper into the valley, where theturf huts waited and where they metup with the herds coming from theeast.

The morning after I arrived, I visitedTromsdalen in the company of HansRagnar Mathisen, a Sami artist,mapmaker, and long-time activist.Mathisen, who also goes by theSami name of Elle-Hánsa and theartist's name of Keviselie, is well-known for his extraordinary maps ofSápmi, the Sami term for the border-less region of northern Scandinaviathat their ancestors have inhabitedfor millennia. Now in his mid-sixties,with an open face and a mind goingten directions at once, he lives in alarge house in Tromsdal, burstingwith rare books, art supplies, andparakeets. In the basement is a largestudio equally as chaotic to the untu-tored eye.

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An ASF Fellow Reports...

Sábmi 1975 by Hans Ragnar Mathisen

“The Way to Sálašvággi” continued...

Mathisen has written that his favoritesubjects in school were drawing, his-tory, and geography and that heespecially liked to draw maps. "Igrew interested in the local cartogra-phy and discovered that on the so-called 'Amtkarta' [district map] of1874 certain Sami place namesoccurred, often in parentheses along-side the Norwegian." As his politicalconsciousness grew in the 1960s, hebegan to realize the ways in whichSami place names had beenchanged and erased. His initial proj-ect in 1974 was a black and whitemap that simply detailed the Samiplace names in the Tromsø district. Itwas the first step to what wouldbecome a far more ambitious project,a global map of the entire region ofSápmi. By that time Mathisen was anart student in Oslo and an activemember of the nascent Sami politicalmovement. He took a semester towork on his new project. The resultwas a vividly colored map in water-color and ink that attracted the eyefirst because of its elegance andwhimsy, but that, on closer examina-tion, turned out to be an extensivelyresearched, highly accurate geogra-phy of hundreds of place names allacross northern Scandinavia.

This cultural cartographic document,like the maps of specific Samiregions that followed, was full ofinteresting things to look at aroundthe margins, including tiny scraps ofmirror writing, jokes, and sketches ofanimals, people, and Sami artifactslike drums and bowls. But Mathisenwasn't only interested in document-ing original place names. Given thatmaps are always provisional render-ings of geography, he decided toexperiment with the orientation, turn-ing Scandinavia upside down, withthe North Pole positioned at the bot-tom of the map and the Sápmi regionmuch larger, perspective-wise, thanthe southern provinces of Sweden,Norway, and Finland. The result isfantastical and charming, but it also

makes a political point: if the world isa globe, why can't individual map-makers choose their vantage point?Why shouldn't the original indige-nous, borderless region of Sápmilook as large as it is?

In With the Lapps in the HighMountains, Emilie Demant Hattwrote:When we landed in Tromsø every-thing was a colorful bustle. There areprobably always on-lookers in a littletown when the steamer ties up, butthere were unusually many here. Youcan well understand that the Lappswith their bright colors and ratherpeculiar get-ups can lure peopledown to see them. It's harder tounderstand why the curiosity shouldbe expressed in loutishness andscorn, sneering cat calls, slurs, andimpudent stares. The Lapps had pre-pared me for this beforehand: "Whenwe come to Tromsø, you'll see howthey stare at us, as if we were wildanimals. They also call after us.What would they think if we did thesame to them?"Only when we were installed in thelarge pleasant tent up in the valley,did we feel free and comfortably atease.

About a hundred years later, HansRagnar Mathisen drove us past thehouses at the outskirts ofTromsdalen out Turistveien, originallybuilt so that the multitude of touristswho began to frequent the Land ofthe Midnight Sun in the late 19th andearly 20th centuries could see theSami tents and reindeer corrals andbuy handicrafts. Near where some ofthe Sami families had lived, we gotout of the car. The landscape waslush green but rather ordinary; thearea looked, if anything, a little run-down. Some people had driven outon the road to jog or walk their dogs.Down by the river there was a dump-ster. The dumpster struck me as verywrong somehow. Over the years theSami of Tromsø, who have struggledhard to create schools where Samican be taught again so that a new

generation can grow up with morepride and understanding of their her-itage, have agitated for some sort ofrecognition on the site of the settle-ment at Tromsdalen - at least amarker. But so far there were justmemories on the landscape of flat-tened areas where the nomads hadpitched their tents for the summer.We walked to the river, where thefamilies used to get their water andlooked up at the mountains towardthe east. I tried to imagine the rein-deer grazing here and the fires risingfrom the tents and turf huts. At theend of the valley was the mountainof Tromsdalstinden, a popular hikingspot and a subject of some debate.The Sami have another name for it:Sálašoaivi, and some consider itsacred. They've resisted a plan tobuild an alpine ski resort there.

I thought about the roads that hadtaken me here: about the first mapsI'd looked at of the area, and thenabout Mathisen's maps, which hadshown me another way of looking.And then I stopped thinking aboutmaps and paths and politics, and juststood there, with the mountain at myback and green pasturage allaround, taking it in.

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Barbara SjoholmTromsdalen, Norway

ASF FELLOWS2009-2010

FROM DENMARK

Peter Andersen, to GladstoneInst. of Cardiovascular Disease,University of California, SanFrancisco, $10,000

Mr. Andersen developed and eval-uated a novel therapeutic treat-ment for patients with ischemicheart disease. He performed thisresearch under the supervision ofDr. Deepak Srivastava at theGladstone Institute ofCardiovascular Disease.

Pernille Damgaard, to theUniversity of California, SanDiego, $10,000

Ms. Damgaard spent an academicyear studying Chemistry at theUniversity of California, San Diegoas part of the Professional StudiesProgram.

Morten Engelund, to theUniversity of Southern California,$10,000

Mr. Engelund conducted researchon the study of claudins, whichare proteins that determine thetightness and permeability of agiven tissue, in salmon. He joineda team of researchers at theUniversity of Southern California,and with their support learnedadvanced experimental tech-niques not available in Denmark.

Tina Ravnsted-Larsen Reeh, toPrinceton Theological Seminary,$5,000

Ms. Reeh's project focused on thework of Danish church historian,Prof. Hal Koch. Her project provid-ed an historical analysis of hisstudies and described importantsteps in the history of the Danishmodel of society. She also illumi-nated how Prof. Koch, from a the-ological point of departure, formedand fixed a position of intellectualresistance against Nazism andintolerance during WWII.

Anders Sørensen, to theUniversity of California, Berkeley,$10,000

Mr. Sørensen spent one semesterat UC Berkeley, where he con-ducted research on issues ofautonomous control andautonomous flying vehicles.

TO DENMARK

Julie Allen, from the University ofWisconsin, $4,000

Dr. Allen examined GeorgBrandes and Asta Nielsen's mar-keting of Denmark in Germanmedia. She is currently anAssistant Professor in theDepartment of ScandinavianStudies at the University ofWisconsin.

David Bollivar, from IllinoisWesleyan University, $4,200

Dr. Bollivar's research focused onchlorophyll biosynthesis andcyclase enzyme analysis. He iscurrently an Associate Professorat Illinois Wesleyan University.

Christine Dy, from the Universityof California, $5,000

Ms. Dy collaborated with Dr. ErikSimonsen examining central nerv-ous system modulation of intrinsicmechanical properties of musclesduring voluntary movements, par-ticularly quadricep muscle stiff-ness during hopping and jumping.

Nicolas Frank, from Texas A&MUniversity, $5,000

Mr. Frank worked to develop awind turbine which incorporatesthe benefits of electromechanicalcomponents while avoiding weightand size issues. To do this hedesigned a magnetic gear to workas an interface.

Carl Hughes, from EmoryUniversity, $20,000

Mr. Hughes studied sacramentaltheology in Kierkegaard's work,which is often thought to beabsent.

Marek Ranis, from the Universityof North Carolina, $5,000

Mr. Ranis visited various locationsthroughout Greenland to producephotographic and video documen-tation of climate change as a nat-ural and cultural phenomena.

Terrance Slocum, from theUniversity of Wisconsin, $14,000

Mr. Slocum's project investigatedwhether Neolithic enclosure sitedetection and survey can be ben-efited by applying GIS computermapping and satellite imagery andif description of sites as 'centers'can be substantiated spatially byGIS analysis of regional site distri-bution.

FROM FINLANDHertta Heinonen, to theUniversity of North Carolina,$5,000

Hertta Heinonen explored issuesof Emergency Managementincluding preparedness, response,recovery, mitigation and disastermanagement. She also examinedwhat impact pending reforms inU.S. health care will have onadministrative and policy issues.

Timo Helenius, to BostonCollege, $5,000

Timo Helenius conducted Ph.D.research in Philosophy focusingon the works of Paul Ricoeur atBoston College. His dissertationresearch explored how ongoingglobal change challenges the cur-rent forms of civil society. Mr.Helenius worked with Ricoeurexperts, Professors RichardKearney and David Rasmussen.

Jussi Laine, to San Diego StateUniversity, $6,500

Mr. Laine conducted dissertationresearch in Human Geography atthe Institute for Regional Studiesat San Diego State University. Hisresearch goals were to under-stand the actual and potential roleof civil society in developing newforms of political, economic, andsocio-cultural cooperation withinNorth American integration incomparison with the emerging"New European Neighborhood."

Mervi Miettinen, to BowlingGreen State University, $9,000

Mervi Miettinen conductedresearch for her PhD dissertationon superhero comics. Shefocused on the political and ideo-logical nature of the superheroand studied the visual rhetoric ofcomics. In addition, she tracedand analyzed the various changesthat took place within the genre,both visually and thematically fromthe 1930s to the 1980s.

Emma Tiainen, University ofChicago, $3,500

Ms. Tiainen enrolled in an LL.M.program at a US institution tostudy the US legal system, espe-cially general corporate law,antitrust law, IPR and technologylaw.

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Morten Engelund, Fellow fromDenmark

Timo Helenius, Fellow fromFinland

Jussi Laine, Fellow from Finland

Nicolas Frank, Fellow to Denmark

Pernille Damgaard, Fellow fromDenmark

TO FINLANDTim Frandy, from the Universityof Wisconsin, $16,000

Mr. Frandy studied how home har-vest and informal economy havechanged during the region's eco-nomic and ecologic shifts of the20th century in Finnish Lapland.

Mimi Fulmer, from the Universityof Wisconsin, $4,000

Ms. Fulmer's project involvedresearching, performing, andrecording Finnish folk songs fromboth the classical and folk reper-toire. She is currently a Professorof Voice at the School of Music atthe University of Wisconsin.

Victoria Schultz, Freelance pro-ducer and writer, $5,000

Ms. Schultz continued herresearch into the life and times ofa German businessman active inFinland from the mid 1930s to theearly 1950s. She conductedresearch at various archives andconsultations with various histori-ans and survivors of internmentcamps for Germans in Finland.

FROM ICELANDJon Gudmundsson, to PrincetonUniversity, $4,500

Mr. Gudmundsson studied thenature of the Cosmic MicrowaveBackground through an experi-ment called Spider. Spider is aballoon borne experiment thatsearches for Inflationary CosmicGravitational Wave Background,which helps to answer scientificquestions of how the universebegan and how it will continue toevolve.

Thorhildur Halldorsdóttir, toVirginia Tech, $4,500

Ms. Halldorsdottir studied psy-chopathology with the objective ofimproving mental health. Her maininterests were disruptive behav-ioral disorders, evidence-basedapproaches to assessing psy-chopathology, treatment outcomesand preventive interventions.

Sæmundur Halldórsson, to theUniversity of California, SanDiego, $4,500

Mr. Halldórsson pursued a Ph.D.in Geochemistry from the ScrippsInstitution of Oceanography at UCSan Diego. His research involvedusing volcanoes and rift zone vol-canism as windows to present andpast chemical and isotopic finger-prints of the mantel to constrain itsheterogeneity and temporal evolu-tion.

Oddný Helgadóttir, to BrownUniversity, $4,500

Ms. Helgadóttir studied public poli-cy with a focus on economic poli-cy while at Brown University. Sheintends to pursue a career as apolicy maker in the Icelandic gov-ernment.

Ása Hjörleifsdóttir, to ColumbiaUniversity, $4,500

Ms. Hjörleifsdóttir continued studyin a Master's program in Film atColumbia University, which shebegan in 2008. Her focus is ondirecting. She expects to gradu-ate in 2011.

Björg Jóhannsdóttir, to TeachersCollege Columbia University,$4,500

Ms. Johannsdóttir began a Ph.D.program in Education at theUniversity of Columbia. Herresearch focused on howteacher's education in mathemat-ics, feelings, and confidencetowards mathematics influencethe student.

Sveinn Ólafsson, to StanfordUniversity, $4,500

Mr. Ólafsson continued pursuingan MS in Financial Mathematics atStanford University. His focuswas credit risk and the corporatedefault cluster that is driven by thesensitivity of firms to commoneconomic factors.

Anna Rafnsdóttir, to YeshivaUniversity, $4,500

Ms. Rafnsdóttir began LLM-direct-ed studies at Yeshiva University'sBenjamin N. Cardozo School ofLaw. She specialized in the fieldsof business and tax law during herstudies in the U.S.

Berglind Tómasdóttir, to theUniversity of California, SanDiego, $4,500

Ms. Tómasdóttir pursued a DMAin Music performance from UCSan Diego. Her main objectivewas to expand and explore hercreative skills as a musician andbroaden her range as a performer.

Elmar Unnsteinsson, to CUNYGraduate Center, $4,500

Mr. Unnsteinsson focused his PhDresearch on the study of 20th cen-tury analytic philosophy and lin-guistic philosophy while at CUNYGraduate Center.

TO ICELAND

Paul Acker, from Saint LouisUniversity, $5,000

Dr. Acker wrote a book of poetryabout living in Iceland. The bookincluded his translations of a col-lection of Icelandic ballads fromthe 18th century, many of whichhave never been translated intheir entirety before. He is current-ly Professor of English at SaintLouis University, where he alsoteaches Icelandic and CreativeWriting.

Simen Johan, Artist, $3,000

Mr. Johan participated in a monthlong residency in Hofsos, Icelandwhere he created new imagesbased on the Icelandic naturalworld. Resulting images will beexhibited and published interna-tionally. He is currently represent-ed by various galleries throughoutthe world and has permanent col-lections at many museums.

Deanne Lundin, from theUniversity of Michigan, $5,000

Ms. Lundin created a 'deep map'of Iceland through poetry and cre-ative non-fiction. A 'deep map'explores a place both imaginedand experienced. Part of the proj-ect included interviews with vari-ous Icelandic scientists to betterunderstand their view of Iceland.She currently teaches English atthe University of Michigan.

Elizabeth Tubergen, Artist,$6,000

Ms. Tubergen created a film aboutIcelandic wool craft, featuring abody of wearable wool sculpturesto suggest the significance of woolin Iceland.

FROM NORWAYLars Stenberg Berg, to theMonterey Institute of InternationalStudies, $10,000

Mr. Berg worked towards a MBAat the Monterey Institute ofInternational Studies, an areaknown for high tech- and biotechbusiness startups.

Trygve Bendiksby, to John F.Kennedy School of Government atHarvard University, $2,000

Mr. Bendiksby worked towards aMaster's degree in Public Policyfrom Harvard University's JFKSchool of Government. His stud-ies focused on public administra-tion.

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Mimmi Fulmer, Fellow to Finland

Elizabeth Tubergen, Fellow to Iceland

Lars Berg, Fellow from Norway

Jon Gudmundsson, Fellow fromIceland

Ása Hjörleifsdóttir, Fellow from Iceland

From Norway continued...

Ingrid Bjerke, to Johns HopkinsSchool of Advanced InternationalStudies, $15,000

Ms. Bjerke worked towards anMA in International Economics &Policy at Johns HopkinsUniversity's SAIS.

Erlend Andreassen Bolstad, toSouthern California Institute ofArchitecture, $10,000

Mr. Bolstad worked on a MA inarchitecture from the SouthernCalifornia Institute of Architecture.He focused on developing envi-ronmental, social, and economicsustainable solutions to the field.

Sara Eliassen, to the SanFrancisco Art Institute, $5,000

Ms. Eliassen has been working inthe Norwegian Film Industry as anindependent director of short filmsand as a director's assistant onfeature films.

Espen Egeland, to ChapmanUniversity, $9,000

Mr. Egeland worked towards aMFA in Film Production fromChapman University. He hasworked as a production assistant,camera operator, editor & directoron various productions and creat-ed his own short films.

Eirik Forus, to New YorkUniversity, $13,000

Mr. Forus continued study in theMA program in Film at NYU,which he began in 2007. Hefocused on manuscript writing.His current manuscript is a storyabout a Gestapo agent huntingNorwegian saboteurs in occupiedNorway during WWII.

Anders Holmen Gulbrandsen, toGeorgetown University, $15,000

Mr. Gulbrandsen continued in aMaster's program in Arab Studiesat the Center for ContemporaryArab Studies at Georgetown

University's Walsh School ofForeign Service.

Tor Aksel Notland Heirung, toCarnegie Mellon University,$7,000

Mr. Heirung spent three monthsstudying engineering at CarnegieMellon University. He focused onchemical engineering and processcontrol.

Karine Hektoen, to ColumbiaUniversity, $15,000

Ms Hektoen began a two yearInternational Relations program atColumbia University in 2008. Shefocused on international financeand economics.

Kristin Hjort, to the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, $10,000

Ms Hjort pursued an LLM at UCBerkeley. She worked to obtain abroader perspective on certainareas of law by taking a compara-tive approach to her law experi-ence and education in Norway.

Rikard Jaucis, to SouthernCalifornia Institute of Architecture,$10,000

Mr. Jaucis began a two-yearMaster's of Architecture programat the Southern California Instituteof Architecture. The programexamined the importance of com-puter software in architecturaldesign in relation to urban phe-nomena.

Francesca Jensenius, to theUniversity of California, Berkeley,$15,000

Ms. Jensenius's research was inthe field of comparative politicswith a focus on South Asia. HerPh.D. project was to enhance theknowledge of the origin andeffects of the use of political reser-vations and other forms of politicalsafeguards in India.

Tor Morten Kjøsnes, toManhattan School of Music,$10,000

Mr. Kjøsnes began a Master's pro-gram in Classical Music atManhattan School of Music in2008. His focus was on solo pianoperformance.

Erlend Leirset, to Stanford University, $5,000

Mr. Leirset spent five months in aPhD program at StanfordUniversity, where his studiesfocused on photonic crystal grat-ing for increasing light extractionfrom a GaSb LED.

Annie Elizabeth Magnus, toJohns Hopkins School ofAdvanced International Studies,$13,000

Ms. Magnus began a two yearInternational Relations program atJohns Hopkins SAIS in 2008, thefirst year of studies were held atthe SAIS Bologna Center in Italy.The second year was inWashington DC. Her focus wason conflict management.

Fredrik Vik Marø, to HarvardUniversity Business School,$5,000

Mr. Marø began an MBA programat Harvard University's BusinessSchool. He expects to completehis degree in 2010.

Gunnar Nordén, to YaleUniversity, $10,000

Mr. Nordén worked towards aLLM at Yale, where he focused onlaw and economics. He is current-ly a Research Fellow at theUniversity of Oslo's Department ofPrivate Law.

Maria Gilani Saleh, to ColumbiaUniversity, $10,000

Ms. Saleh continued work on herMA in International Relations atColumbia University. She workedas a political advisor for thePalestinian Diplomatic Mission toNorway and as head of AmnestyInternational Norway's MiddleEast and North Africa Committee.

Hilde Eliassen Restad, to theUniversity of Virginia, WoodrowWilson Dept of Politics, $13,000

Ms. Restad continued her PhDstudies at the University ofVirginia, focusing on American for-eign policy.

Lars Rosvoll, to the University ofArizona, $10,000

Mr. Rosvoll continued his PhDstudies in Music Performance atthe University of Arizona, focusingon guitar performance and musictheory.

Kristine Skarbø, to the Universityof Georgia, $15,000

Ms. Skarbø continued in her PhDprogram in Anthropology at theUniversity of Georgia, where herstudies focused on ecological &environmental anthropology.

TO NORWAY

Allison Bailey, from UniversityCentre (UNIS), Svalbard, $14,000

Ms. Bailey conducted research forher Master's thesis on overwinter-ing ecology of two key zooplank-ton species in a high-Arctic fjord.

Kyle Elkin, from PennsylvaniaState University, $3,000

Mr. Elkin's research tried to linkenvironmental conditions in thesoil to degradation of de-icingchemicals in soil to investigate ifgeophysical methods can be usedto monitor temporal and spatialvariations of these conditions. Heis an Analytical LaboratoryTechnician for the US Departmentof Agriculture.

Alina Evans, from LouisianaState University, $21,000

Dr. Evans conducted an evalua-tion of Norwegian moose as areservoir for reindeer diseases, aspart of a research team headedby Dr. Jon Arnemo from HedmarkUniversity College.

Kyle Elkin, Fellow to Norway

Gunnar Nordén, Fellow from Norway

7Alina Evans, Fellow to Norway

Eirik Forus, Fellow from Norway

Sara Eliassen, Fellow from Norway

To Norway continued...

Olivia Gunn, from the Universityof California, Irvine, $15,000

Ms. Gunn conducted dissertationresearch comparing Scandinavianand French nationalism at the turnof the 19th century, particularlythrough Ibsen and his relationshipwith France.

Claire Hellweg, musician with theGuanajuato Symphony Orchestra,Mexico, $4,000

Ms. Hellweg was mentored byworld-renowned Norwegian hornplayer Frøydis Ree Wekre. She isa Horn Professor at the Universityof Guanajuato and the co-principalhorn player for the GuanajuatoSymphony Orchestra.

Yi Zhang, from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, $8,000

Ms. Zhang examined biomarkersusing Magnetic ResonanceSpectroscopy (MRS) and HighResolution Magic AngleSpectroscopy (HR-MAS) to quan-titatively predict early response tohormone therapy for treatment ofbreast cancer.

FROM SWEDEN

Anna Blomster, to the Universityof California, Los Angeles,$13,000

Ms. Blomster worked on develop-ing folkoristic methods for analysisof visual narratives by bringingtogether knowledge from thesemiotic field with folkloristic nar-rative analysis.

Emily Eriksson, to the Universityof California, San Francisco,$20,000

Dr. Eriksson’s research at UCSFinvolved identifying of novelimmune activation surface mole-cules as prognostics markers ofHIV-1 progression and indicatorsof efficient CD8+ T cell responses.

Neda Kerimi, to CornellUniversity, $12,000

Ms. Kerimi researched a debateon whether our decisions shouldbe based on rationality or if weshould let our unconsciousnessmake our decisions.

Maria Ryman, to ColumbiaUniversity, $5,000

Ms. Ryman conducted researchon how the dominant library dis-courses on intellectual freedomand social responsibility are linkedto the ideals of the AmericanCreed, i.e. freedom, equality, indi-vidualism, and the rule of lawunder a constitution.

Berkant Savas, to CornellUniversity, $10,000

Dr. Savas’ research involved mak-ing fundamental theoreticaladvances, developing novel algo-rithms for tensor computationsand applying those to data inten-sive real-life applications.

Cecilia Wassberg, to MemorialSloan-Kettering Cancer Center,Weill Cornell Medical/RockefellerUniversity, $5,000

Dr. Wassberg was part of aresearch fellowship that includesresearch and didactive training inthe latest advances in technologyof imaging cancer biology.

TO SWEDEN

Bart De Stasio, from LawrenceUniversity, $5,000

Dr. De Stasio used molecular biol-ogy to investigate food web inter-actions in lakes and oceans to fur-ther understand how ecosystemsfunction and how they respond tohuman-induced forces. He is anAssociate Professor of Biology atLawrence University.

Maria Norton, from Utah StateUniversity, $4,000

Dr. Norton's project examined theinfluence of stressful life eventson the development of dementiaand comparing the differencebetween American and Swedishelders. She is an AssociateProfessor at Utah State University.

Aarti Sharma, from the Universityof Illinois, $14,500

Ms. Sharma examined the chang-ing expression of specific genesequences in a beta cell trans-plant model and its possible sig-nificance in diabetes therapy.

Anna Stenport, from theUniversity of Illinois, $5,000

Dr. Stenport studied the regionaltransformations of theScandinavian film industry, focus-ing on filmmakers LukasMoodyson and Lars von Trier. Sheis an Assistant Professor at theUniversity of Illinois.

Lisa Tiersten, from BarnardCollege, $5,000

Dr. Tiersten conducted a compar-ative study of children's rights inSweden, France, and the UnitedStates in the 20th century. She isan Associate Professor at BarnardCollege.

TO MULTI-COUNTRIES

Laura Blair, from SouthwesternUniversity, $4,000

Dr. Blair researched Chilean iden-tity through films made by exilesliving in Finland and Sweden.

Martin Gutmann, from MaxwellSchool, Syracuse University,$4,800

Mr. Gutmann conducted disserta-tion research on professional andintellectual elites from neutralWestern European countries whovolunteered for German militaryservice during World War II.

Elizabeth Klages, from AugsburgCollege, $4,000

Dr. Klages researched democraticcitizen engagement andantiracism initiatives in Denmarkand Sweden and the differencebetween the two countries inregard to support forminorities/immigrants and levelsof social tolerance. She is anAdjunct Professor in PoliticalScience at Augsberg College inMinneapolis.

Kathryn Martin, from theUniversity of Pittsburgh, $10,000

Ms. Martin analyzed depictions ofSaints Erik, Olav, and Birgitta inlate Medieval Swedish art. Shewill be based at the UppsalaUniversity, and additional researchwill be required at various loca-tions in Denmark and Finland.

Barbara Sjoholm, Writer, $4,000

Ms. Sjoholm wrote a historicalnovel about Danish artist/writerEmilie Demant Hatt. She retracedHatt's travels through Norway andSweden. She has publishednumerous novels and short sto-ries, as well as translations fromNorwegian and Danish.

Bret Strogen, from the Universityof California, Berkeley, $5,000

Mr. Strogen conducted disserta-tion research on the environmen-tal costs of modifying or deployingnew infrastructure, such as tanksand pipelines, to support storageand transport of (non-food based)biofuels as a replacement forpetroleum.

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Elizabeth Klages, Fellow to Denmarkand Sweden

Aarti Sharma, Fellow to Sweden

Bart De Stasio, Fellow to Sweden

Emily Eriksson, Fellow from Sweden

Claire Hellweg, Fellow to Norway

Morten Buch Engelund, 2009 Fellow from Denmark

My opportunity to study in the United States began with an invitation from my current supervisor Dr. Alan Yu at theUniversity of Southern California to come and do experiments in his laboratory on the topic of salmon osmoregula-tion. I was awarded a fellowship from The American-Scandinavian Foundation in the spring of 2009, which made itpossible for me to travel to the United States and begin my project. My wife and I arrived in Los Angeles in August2009 and, after a stressful period of getting settled, I started my work in the laboratory.

I am working on the physiology of the salmon gill. Salmon are hatched in rivers but as they mature they follow therivers into the sea, where they grow large and then return to the very same rivers to reproduce as adults. This jour-ney has fascinated biologists for many years as the salmon have to cope with widely different concentrations ofsalts in their surroundings, as they travel between freshwater and seawater. Studies on fish salt and water regula-tion have proven insightful for the understanding of the mammalian kidney, which is the primary organ of salt andwater regulation in humans. In the mammalian kidney and in the gill of salmon, researchers have identified manysimilar mechanisms involved in salt and water regulation and these stud-ies, combined with studies on other species, have helped explain thebasis of different renal diseases.

In Dr. Yu's laboratory at Keck School of Medicine I have studied the pro-teins that are speculated to regulate the transport processes betweencells in the salmon gill. This transport process is called paracellular trans-port; these proteins are also very important in kidney function in humansand implicated in at least one known renal disease. I hope my experi-ments will contribute to the knowledge of paracellular transport and itsimportance in different tissues and organisms.

I have been fortunate to be part of a very productive and professionalteam of colleagues and supervisors, who all strive to expand the knowledge of salt and water regulation. Being partof the international academic environment at Keck School of Medicine has fueled my interest in research and hasoffered me the opportunity to participate in a symposium where I presented my recent findings. The symposium wasa great experience and it allowed me to build relations with researchers from both the U.S. and Europe.

Living in California, and in Los Angeles especially, has been a great experience. I have been lucky enough to knowfriends here of many different cultures, and with them have experienced elements of Asian, American, and Mexicanlife. We have often spoken about the differences of our respective cultures and I feel enriched with knowledge ofpeople, their ideas, their food, and their culture.

The fellowship from ASF has launched my career in research. I will continue to share my knowledge of Americanand Scandinavian culture, and hopefully inspire other Scandinavians or Americans to travel overseas for studies orwork.

Former Fellow Experiences

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ASF NEWS

Delores Di Paola, Director of Exchange at The American-Scandinavian Foundation from 1961 to 1992 (during whichshe was in charge of all of the ASF educational exchange programs), passed away in New York in December, 2010,at the age of 80. She touched the lives of thousands of Scandinavians and Americans who received support from theASF for their study, research, or training assignments abroad, and worked closely with our five Nordic sister societies,other exchange organizations, the Nordic diplomatic community and the scholars who helped review applicationsfrom fellowship candidates. During her tenure at the ASF, the fellowship program grew dramatically with the additionof several major new funds and initiatives, and the training program had its peak years. After she retired, Ms. DiPaolaserved for five years as a member of the ASF Committee on Fellowships and Grants, and in recent years she contin-ued to be interested in following the careers of former Fellows.

ASF Awards 2009 Translation Prize

The Board of Trustees of The American-Scandinavian Foundation announced that Tara F.Chace from Seattle, Washington, was awarded the 30th annual ASF Translation Prize for hertranslation of a collection of short stories by Norwegian author Nicolai Houm, All Children areMade of Fire (Alle barn er laget av ild) (b. 1974).

The ASF jury praised the translation by stating: "Nicolai Houm is a young Norwegian authorwhose works up to this point have been unavailable to an English-speaking audience. Thistranslation will remedy this lack of recognition and do so in an exemplary manner. In thistranslation, the original and the translation act together like two perfectly matched dancers,the original leading and the translation following in total harmony of rhythm and emotionalexpressiveness. The translation also renders beautifully the sense of distance in human rela-tions that is characteristic of the original text. In short, a masterful translation demonstrating aconfidence, vigor, and creativity perfectly suited to the bold originality of the Norwegian sto-ries" As the winner, Dr. Chace received a $2,000 honorarium and a commemorative bronze medallion.

The Leif and Inger Sjöberg Award, recognizing distinguished effort by a translatorwho has not previously published a literary translation, was given to Sean Hughesfrom Seattle, Washington for his translation of a collection of short stories from Carsand Animals: Short Stories (Biler og dyr) by the Danish author Helle Helle (b. 1965).The Translation Prize jury praised the translation by stating: "Helle Helle is one ofDenmark's best known authors whose work has received critical praise and manyaward nominations. The translation of Cars and Animals displays a fluent colloquialquality and captures the down-to-earth quality of her prose without compromising itscomplexity and depth. The translation displays a restraint and a succinct choice ofwords that nicely capture the spare style for which this author is known."Mr. Hughes received a $1,000 honorarium and a commemorative bronze medallion.

Excerpts of both translations appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of ScandinavianReview, the journal published by The American-Scandinavian Foundation.

ASF Visiting Lecturers

From Norway

Wartburg College, Waverly, IA

Dr. Birgit Brock-Utne, who is a professor at the Institute of Educational Research, University ofOslo, spent the winter 2010 term affiliated with Wartburg College. Dr. Brock-Utne holds graduatedegrees in Education from the University of Oslo and the University of Illinois. During her VisitingLectureship, Dr. Brock-Utne taught a section of "Inquiry Studies 201: Living in a Diverse World."This is a required course for all second-year, undergraduate students at Wartburg College. Inaddition to teaching the course, Dr. Brock-Utne gave two lectures that were open to all students,college faculty, staff and the public. She also visited other classes, including those in Political Science, Education and Religion.Furthermore, she pursued the opportunity to visit other colleges/universities in the Midwest, and attended the annual conferenceon the Comparative and International Education Society in March 2010.

From SwedenUniversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

The University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions and the Eleanor Mann School ofNursing hosted Dr. Jan Mårtensson during the Spring 2010 semester. Dr. Mårtensson is a Senior Lecturer inNursing at the University Jönköping. He holds higher degrees from Göteborg University and the University ofJönköping. Dr. Mårtensson's teaching obligations included conducting a seminar class for multidisciplinaryundergraduate students from a variety of healthcare backgrounds. He also explored cardiovascular nursingcare in Northwest Arkansas and developed networking for joint future research programs. Dr. Mårtenssonwas the keynote speaker at the Nursing Research Conference at the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing.Additionally, he worked with nurses and physicians from area hospitals to develop research priorities for con-gestive heart failure patients. Dr. Mårtensson also had the opportunity to attend the Southern NursingResearch Society Annual Research Conference in Spring 2010.

Tara Chace

Sean HughesPhoto: Claire Levy

Dr. Birgit Brock-Utne

Professor Jan Mårtensson

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