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Zempel selected to attend NEH institute on American immigration

By Anna Stevens '10
April 8, 2009

St. Olaf Professor of Norwegian Solveig Zempel has been selected to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute titled "American Immigration Revisited."

Zempel will join 24 other college instructors from across the country in Washington, D.C., in July, where they will spend four weeks exploring various dimensions of immigration. Through lectures, panels and site visits, they will focus on four broad topics: American immigration as part of a global phenomenon; migrations between cultures; changes in immigration law, policy, and practice; and approaches and resources for teaching immigration history. The group will also take a three-day excursion to New York to tour Ellis and Liberty Islands, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, "little Italy" in the Bronx, and other ethnic neighborhoods.

This is a National History Center project that has the support of the American Historical Association, Community College Humanities Association, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Library of Congress, where most sessions will be held. It's one of a number of summer institutes the NEH offers each year to enable college instructors to study humanities topics and learn more about current scholarship.

Contact Kari VanDerVeen at 507-786-3970 or vanderve@stolaf.edu.