Project Support: Norway

Project on Norway’s efforts to enlist NGOs in public and cultural diplomacy

Project on local community and politics in medieval Scandinavia, part of the Transformation Project at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Viking and Medieval Studies. Bidwell graduated from Smith College in 2003.

Project on Old Norse philology, exploring this language that is a key component in the development of Germanic languages and provides a window into medieval history. At the time, linguist Boulerice was at Harvard University.

Project on the narrative authority of the author Sigrid Undset. At the time, Berguson was at the University of Washington.

Project on the history and development of Sami political rights. Dougherty, of Willamette College, had already worked with the Inuit population in Sitka, Alaska. She conducted this Norwegian project based at the University of Tromsø, then planned to go to law school.

Project on the thirty-year Scandinavian career of Earle Hyman, distinguished black American actor who learned Norwegian, Swedish and Danish and performed the classical repertory, from Ibsen to Strindberg and Shakespeare to O’Neill, before his American career began. At the time, Kelly was in the Theater Department at the University of Wisconsin.

Project on gender and family in the Norwegian land reform process. At the time, Rasmussen was at the University of Washington.

Project consisting in the composition of a large-scale, multi-media piece for live musicians, computer music and computer-assisted puppetry. At Norway’s Technology, Acoustics and Music center (NOTAM) Geers, at the time at Columbia University, created a production of Gilgamesh.

Project on the influence of Norwegian health and social policies on adolescent reproductive health. At the time, Peterson was in Public Health at UC Berkeley.

Project on Norwegian migration to the US, which was second in numbers only to the Irish

Project on the role of science in formulating regulatory policy regarding public health questions, for example, on electromagnetic fields as a possible cause of cancer

Project on the Norwegian author Cora Sandel