PhD candidate of the GNSD Department, Meyer Weinshel, has been piloting a forthcoming Yiddish textbook, In eynem, the Yiddish Book Center’s forthcoming communicative language…
Senior Bridget Brown discusses adapting to distance learning and how her background in German studies and psychology informs how she understands the pandemic. "My liberal arts…
“Women were strong. They had their own will; they had their own say,” says Lena Norrman, lecturer of Swedish and Scandinavian studies. Norrman spent fall 2019 in Reykjavík…
In high school, Ross Etherton had no college aspirations and thought of German as an ugly language. Now, as a professor of German, he incorporates what he learned as a first…
Weiss began teaching German studies at the U in 1956 and also served as the department's chair for eight years. He mentored new faculty and redefined how German studies was…
“Gerhard Weiss was one of the most beloved professors of my undergraduate and graduate years in the department. At once the consummate German gentleman-scholar and unassuming…
Learning abroad gives students the opportunity to study in other countries and expand their personal, professional, and global development. Read how a diverse group of GNSD…
Chelsea Spencer is a senior majoring in German, Scandinavian, Dutch (with an emphasis in German) and global studies and minoring in biology. During her time abroad, Spencer…
Molly Tynjala recently graduated with a major in English and a minor in political science. Driven to learn more about her heritage, she began taking Finnish classes as a…