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Assoc Professor, GCL
Global Cultural & Language Studies
Office: T4602
Phone: (218) 723-6446
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SSC Admin
Office: S2126
Phone: (218) 723-7092
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Global Cultural & Language Studies
Office: T4114
Phone: (218) 723-6442
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Assoc Professor, GSJ
Global Cultural & Language Studies
Office: T4136
Phone: (218) 723-6718
Elyse Carter Vosen, PhD
Elyse Carter Vosen, Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology (University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor in Global, Cultural and Language Studies, also teaching in Peace and Justice Studies, Sustainability Studies and the Environment, Women's and Gender Studies, and Fine Arts. Some of her courses include Cultural Anthropology; World Music; Dance, Gender and Culture; Popular Music and Political Movements; Music as Environmental Activism; Community Nonprofits; and core courses for the Global, Cultural and Language Studies major including Migration, Diaspora, Identity and Advanced Cultural & Social Theory; as well as mentoring students working on their senior capstone research projects.
Outside the classroom, Dr. Carter Vosen serves as advisor to United for Africa, a student organization engaging with the politics, culture, and global impact of Africa and her diaspora. She directs the Oreck-Alpern Interreligious Forum, which promotes respect, understanding and peace among the diverse spiritual communities of the region through interfaith study and collaborative projects and events. Her work in the community has focused on environmental justice, antiracism and health equity, including organizing a Culturally and Spritually Responsive Healthcare Conference (2016 and 2019) and serving since 2018 on the Health and Environmental Equity Committee of the NAACP. She is also an advisory committee member for Healthy Alliances Matter for All and the St. Mark Giving Garden, a project to grow food security and reclaim cultural knowledge in Duluth's African heritage community.
Dr. Carter Vosen's research interests bring together cultural expression, activism, and decolonization through song, dance, and reconnection to land in Jewish and Indigenous communities. Her publications include co-authorship of the entry on Ojibwe Music for the New Grove Dictionary of American Music (2013), an article on four generations of North American indigenous protest music in The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music (2013), and a chapter on round dances as indigenous activism in the book Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America (2018), which was awarded the 2020 Ellen Koskoff Prize for Edited Collections by the Society for Ethnomusicology and received the 2020 Ruth A. Solie Award for Edited Collections from the American Musicological Society. Her current work explores song as a driving force in Jewish environmental and food justice movements.
Thomas Morgan,
Dr. Morgan has taught Russian language and culture for many years. He's particularly interested in cross-cultural issues and has explored in a variety of ways the experience of American and Canadian Finns in Soviet Russia. He also co-authored an advanced grammar of English (in Russian) that was published in Russia in a second edition in 2001. (The first edition was published in 1997.)
Dr. Morgan founded and directed (with Russian colleagues) a series of summer language camps for college students. The camps are held in Russia for American students and at St. Scholastica for Russians in alternating years. The program marked its 26th year in 2015 and is now directed by Dr. Karen Rosenflanz.
Dr. Morgan has a strong interest in the international aspects of peace and justice issues. He was involved in the development of the Duluth International Peace Center, a citizens' group that functioned for many years in the 1990s to foster international cooperation and peacemaking at the grass roots level. And he was a charter member of the Duluth City Cities Commission. He currently is involved in helping to develop a relationship with citizens in a city in northern Iraq and is currently president of Duluth Sister Cities International.
Courses that he regularly teaches include Rusian literature classes, honors courses with a peace and justice theme, philosophy and a course on peaceful resolution of international conflict.
Dr. Morgan is the director of the Alworth Center for the Study of Peace & Justice, which regularly brings nationally known speakers to campus. Topics that the Center has addressed in the past few years include issues connected with food, energy, the environment, wealth & poverty, war & peace, democracy and the media. Dr. Morgan also coordinates a new major in Peace & Justice Studies.
Favorite free-time activities include biking, tennis and dog walking.
Jennifer Niemi, M.Ed
Jennifer Niemi is the Director of the Native Studies at CSS. Her passion lies in equity and inclusion. Jennifer has been a Qualified Administrator (QA) of the Intercultural Development Inventory since 2006, a tool for assessing intercultural competence at the individual and group level. Jennifer comes from 8 years of service with the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) in their Learning Initiatives Department as the Program Manager for Split Rock Lighthouse. Before MNHS, Jennifer worked for 11 years in higher education as the academic advisor for Gekinoo’imaagejig, a program committed to the recruitment, retention, and graduation of Native Americans interested in becoming teachers. In that role, she also assisted in program development and accreditation. Jennifer has a Bachelor's degree in History and American Indian Studies and an M.Ed in Environmental Education and is a current Ed.D candidate.
Martin Pflug, Ph.D.
Martin Pflug completed his Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and a minor in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He currently teaches all levels of Spanish from beginning to advanced. Research interests include Second Language Acquisition, Latin American vanguard, the history of technology and literature, and indigenous literature of Latin America. Personal interests include just about any outdoor activities with family, - winter, spring, summer and fall - travel, and working with wood.
Karen Rosenflanz, Ph.D.
Karen Rosenflanz (Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) teaches German language and culture and courses in European literature in translation, Russian history and culture, and European geopolitics. She is a faculty member in the Global Sustainability and Justice Studies department and in the Honors Program at the College.
Sarah Schaaf,
