and the Foundation has beencelebrating these eventsthrough a wide range of activ-ities, many involving the par-ticipation of ASF FormerFellows. The year opened withthe Foundation recognizingthe 100th anniversary ofNorwegian independence withtwo special events. Scan-dinavia House presented theexhibition NORGE: Contem-porary Landscapes from theCollection of H.M. QueenSonja of Norway, organized bythe ASF in collaboration withThe Royal Court of Norway.The exhibition, drawn fromthe private collection of H.M.Queen Sonja of Norway, in-cluded works by a selection ofNorway's leading artists,including 2001 ASF FellowThomas Pihl. The Foundationalso held a Norwegian Centennial Ball, in the pres-ence of Their Majesties KingHarald V and Queen Sonjaand attended by a number ofASF Former Fellows, includingU.N. Under-Secretary-Generalfor Humanitarian Affairs andEmergency Relief Jan Egeland(1982 Fellow from Norway).

2005 also marked theHans Christian Andersen

Bicentennial. The Foundationcelebrated this event with afestive birthday party atScandinavia House attended byover 400 children and theirparents, as well as creating aspecial play-center inspired byAndersen tales. Through theFoundation's Public ProjectGrants program, the ASF pro-vided support for other H.C.Andersen events across thecountry, often with the parti-cipation of Former Fellows.ASF grants helped bring NielsIngwersen (1985 and 1989Fellow to Denmark) to lectureat the Library of Congress andColumbia University, andother funding supported performances by mezzo-con-tralto and storyteller HanneLadefoged-Dollase (1991Fellow from Denmark) in chil-dren's programming celebrat-ing Andersen.

The special anniversariesof this year serve as a re-minder that the ASF is lookingahead to its own centennialcelebrations in 2010-11! TheFoundation will want to involve as many of its Former Fellows as possible inanniversary activities. It is thus more important than ever

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U.N. Under-Secretary-General JanEgeland (1982 Fellow from Norway)attends the ASF’s NorwegianCentennial Ball with his wife AnneKristin Sydnes.

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Portland, Oregon: Lynn Carter, ASF Executive Vice President,meets newly-selected 2005-06 Fellows Susanna Moliski(Finland to US) and Anne Sabo (US to Norway).

Washington, DC: Rose-Marie Oster, ASF Trustee, with NilsHasselmo (1976 Fellow to Sweden) and Kirsti Planck Johnson(1984 Fellow to Denmark).

Patricia BBerman (1985,1984 Fellow to Norway)co-organized a sympo-sium at New YorkUniversity entitled "A FineRegard: Symposium inhonor of Kirk Varnedo"in November 2004.

Michelle FFacos (1986,1985 Fellow to Sweden)co-edited Art, Cultureand National Identity inFin-de-Siecle Europe(Cambridge UniversityPress).

Evelyn SScherabonFirchow (1993 Fellowto Iceland) publishedher diplomatic editionof Gottfried vonStrassburg: Tristan andIsolde (Herzel Verlag).

Roger GGreenwald(1991 Fellow toSweden; 1984 toNorway) won the 2004Lewis Galantière Awardfor his translationNorth in the World:Selected Poems of RolfJacobsen (University

of Chicago Press).

Tuomas HHiltunen(2003 Finnish Fellow) performed in theMetropolitan OperaBallet Corps productionof Benvenuto Celliniand played a guest roleon the Fox televisionseries "Johnny Zero".

Christine IIngebritsen(1989 Fellow to Nor-way) co-edited SmallStates in InternationalRelations, (Univ. ofWashington Press).

Bruce KKirmmse (1990,1974 Fellow toDenmark) translatedSøren Kierkegaard: ABiography by JoakimGarff (University ofPrinceton Press).

Kjell LLejon (2002Swedish Fellow) pub-lished Bush och det tystakriget: Abortfrågen frånRichard Nixon till GeorgeW. Bush (ProVita).

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Jesper Bork, to the SouthernCalifornia Institute of Architecture,$8,500Mr. Bork spent a semester takingspecialized course work.

Annette Christensen, to Suffolk University, $8,500Ms. Christensen’s studies focusedon finance and statistics.

Elin Jørgensen, to the Universityof California/Davis, $8,500Ms. Jørgensen’s studies at the veterinary teaching hospitalfocused on equine surgery andlarge animal radiology.

Henrik Lund, to Tufts MedicalSchool, $9,500Mr. Lund conducted lab researchtowards the development of new,more powerful antibiotics.

Morten Skrøjer, to Washingtonand Lee University, $8,500Mr. Skrøjer's LL.M. studiesfocused on U.S. constitutional lawand corporate law.

Michael Wejp-Olsen, to theUniversity of Chicago, $8,500Mr. Wejp-Olsen's LL.M. studiesfocused on American corporatelaw.

TTOO DDEENNMMAARRKKLinda Fair, from RutgersUniversity, $18,000Ms. Fair's dissertation research atthe Danish National Institute ofSocial Research examined issuesfaced by female immigrants fromthe Muslim countries living inDenmark.

Kathryn Fishbaugh, from theInternational Space ScienceInstitute, Bern, Switzerland, $3,000Dr. Fishbaugh's research at theNiels Bohr Institute explored thebehavior and geologic history ofthe Martian ice caps.

Julie Hollowell, from thePrinceton University Art Museum,$3,000Dr. Hollowell's research at theDanish National Museum exam-ined the contributions of Danisharchaeologists and art historians toknowledge of Bering Strait prehistory.

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Paul Norlen of Seattle, WA has been awarded the 25th annual ASF Translation Prize for hisEnglish rendition of portions of A Toast to Your Ashes: The Life of the Poet Bellman fromBeginning to End by the Swedish author Ernst Brunner. Mr. Norlen received a $2,000 honorarium and a commemorative bronze medallion. The committee praised him for being"always accurate and extremely knowledgeable" and said "the English version is as entertaining and gripping as the Swedish original." Mr. Norlen's translation already has acommitted publisher, Canongate in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize was awarded to Ingrid Lansford of Georgetown, TX forher translation of portions of Love Stories from Many Lands by the Danish author Meir AronGoldschmidt. The committee noted that Langsford "preserves the quality of the tales perfectly; elevated and dignified, but with a quiet sense of humor."

Excerpts from both translations will appear in upcoming issues of Scandinavian Review,the journal published by The American-Scandinavian Foundation.

Anthony Thompson, visual artistfrom New York, New York, $3,000Mr. Thompson's oil paintingsexamined issues related to theimmigrant population in Denmark.

Bethany Usher, from SUNY/Potsdam, $4,250Dr. Usher's research at theAnthropological Data BaseOdense University investigated thecharacteristics of medieval Danishcommunities.

Joseph Westfall, from BostonCollege, $3,000Mr. Westfall's dissertation researchexamined Kierkegaard's literaryand dramatic criticism.

FFRROOMM FFIINNLLAANNDDMari Jyväsjärvi, to HarvardUniversity, $6,000Ms. Jyväsjärvi's dissertationresearch focused on the traditionof female asceticism in the historyof Hinduism and Buddhism.

Justin Salminen, to the Universityof California/Berkeley, $4,000Dr. Salminen's research in appliedthermodynamics focused on thereduction and utilization of green-house gas carbon dioxide.

Lauri Tähtinen, to HarvardDivinity School, $8,500Mr. Tähtinen's Masters researchfocused on the source of religiousclashes and the role of fundamen-talism.

Lotta Väänänen, to the Universityof California/Berkeley, $8,500Ms. Väänänen's dissertationresearch examined the economicsof innovation and entrepreneur-ship.

TTOO FFIINNLLAANNDDCharlotte Holmes, fromPennsylvania State University,$3,000Ms. Holmes wrote a book of prosevignettes based upon the life andwork of Finnish painter HeleneSchjerfbeck.

Katherine Howell, from the SanFrancisco Conservatory of Music,$6,000Ms. Howell took voice lessonsfrom opera singer MargaretaBrandt-Haverinen.

Cynthia Myntti, from YaleUniversity, $18,000Dr. Myntti's research at theHelsinki University of Technologyexamined mass housing inFinland.

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Veigar MMargeirsson(1995 Icelandic Fellow)wrote music for a number of movie trailersincluding Ocean'sTwelve, Alexander, KillBill and NationalTreasure.

Lansing MMcCloskey(1993 Fellow toDenmark) received aFromm Foundation com-mission for a new workfor the RadnofskyQuartet.

Peter MMortensen (1993Danish Fellow) pub-lished British Romant-icism and ContinentalInfluences: Writing inan Age of Europhobia(MacMillan).

Andrew NNestingen(2000, 1998 Fellow toFinland) co-editedTransnational Cinemain a Global North:Nordic Cinema inTransition, (WayneState Univ. Press).

Jole SShackelford (1986Fellow to Norway) pub-lished A PhilosophicalPath for ParacelsianMedicine: The Ideas,Intellectual Context andInfluence of PetrusSeverinus (1540-1602)(Museum TusculanumPress).

Marianne SStecher-Hansen (1981 Fellow toDenmark) editedDanish Writers fromthe Reformation to

Decadence, 1550-1900.(Bruccoli Clark Layman).

Birgitta SSteene (1984Fellow to Sweden) pub-lished Ingmar Bergman:A Reference Guide(University of ChicagoPress).

Pianist Derek YYapleSchobert (1996 Fellow toDenmark) was featuredon the Canadian televi-sion show The ClassicalNow.

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The Denmark-America FoundationFiolstræde 24, 3. sal 1171 Copenhagen K, Denmarkwww.daf-fulb.dk

The League of Finnish-American SocietiesMechelininkatu 10 A 001 00 Helsinki, Finlandwww.sayl.fi

The Icelandic-American SocietyRaudarárstigur 25 150 Reykjavík, Icelandwww.iceam.is

The Norway-America AssociationRådhusgaten 23B 0158 Oslo, Norwaywww.noram.no

The Sweden-America FoundationBox 5280 102 46 Stockholm, Swedenwww.sweamfo.se

Finnish Fellow Tuomas Hiltunen,performing under his stage nameTuomas Hil, in the role of NikolaiTesla in the short film "A Visionary".

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Huldar Breidfjörd, to New YorkUniversity, $5,000Mr. Breidfjörd is a novelist whoepursued an M.F.A. in filmmaking.

Jóel Fridriksson, to MIT, $5,000Mr. Fridriksson's doctoral studiesat M.I.T. focused on astrophysics.

Gudmundur Gudbrandsson, toYale University, $5,000Mr. Gudbrandsson pursued aMasters in environmental manage-ment.

Kristján Gudmundsson, to theCalifornia Institute of Technology,$4,500Mr. Gudmundsson dissertationresearch in mechanical engineer-ing focused on sound wavephysics, aimed at the reduction ofjet noise.

Jóhanna Jochumsdóttir, toRutgers University, $5,000Ms. Jochumsdóttir's doctoral stud-ies focused on 20th-centurywomen's suffrage movements.

María Jónsdóttir, to ColumbiaUniversity, $5,000Ms. Jónsdóttir's Masters studies ininternational affairs focused oninternational economic policy.

Kjartan Orn Ólafsson, to HarvardUniversity, $4,000Mr. Ólafsson's M.B.A. studiesfocused on media and the enter-tainment industry.

Styrmir Sigurjónsson, toStanford University, $2,500Mr. Sigurjónsson's doctoral studiesin electrical engineering focusedon information theory as it relatesto communication systems.

Herdís Steingrímsdóttir, toColumbia University, $2,500Ms. Steingrímsdóttir's doctoralstudies focused on econometricsand microeconomics.

Geir Thórarinsson, to PrincetonUniversity, $2,500Mr. Thórarinsson's doctoral studies in classics focused onancient philosophy.

TTOO IICCEELLAANNDDRuth Maher, from The GraduateSchool, CUNY, $18,000Ms. Maher's dissertation researchexamineed Viking migration andsettlement patterns in Iceland utilizing Geographic InformationSystems database analysis.

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Tone Stockenström traveled to Sweden in Fall 2004 to examine her identity as a Swedish-American immigrant through photographing her extended family in Uppsala. The photographswere recently exhibited at the Swedish-American Museum Center in Chicago.

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years II hhave bbeen wworking iin CChicago aas aadocumentarian pphotographing iimmigrantfamilies aand II aalso wworked iin SSalvador,Brazil wwith aat-rrisk sstreet cchildren aat tthePicolino CCircus PProject. WWhat cconnected aallmy pphotographic bbodies oof wwork wwas tthesearch ffor hhome aand aan uunderstanding oofwhat iit mmeans tto hhave aa hhome.

My ssearch ffor mmy iidentity wwas ffueled bby mmanyquestions aas II vvisited ffamily mmembers aand mmy

mother wwho rresides iin UUppsala. II llookedthrough bboxes aand bboxes oof oold ffamily

photographs aand nnegatives. II aalso rread oold letters aand ddid aaudio iinterviews wwith mmy ffamily

members tthroughout SSweden. II vvisited mmyancestors’ ggraves aand ttravelled tto nnorthernSweden tto UUmeå wwhere wwe hhad aa ssummer

home iin SSorbole.

The wwhole ttime II wwas hhoping tto ffind ffragments oof mmyself mmirrored bback tto mme tthrough tthe iimages II wwasmaking. II aam vvery mmuch iinterested iin wwhat SSalmanRushdie ccalls tthe ““imaginary hhomeland” - tthis iidea ooflonging ffor tthe ppast. AAfter mmy vvisit iin SSweden II wwasgenerously ssponsored bby LLightwork iin SSyracuse, NNewYork, tto sstart aa oone mmonth-llong rresidency. TThere II started tto pprint ssome oof tthe oold nnegatives aand ggothrough tthe tthousands oof iimages II hhad mmade.

I pprinted ssome oof tthe oold mmedium fformat negatives oof mmy pparents wwhich wwere iin

perfect ccondition llike tthe oone oof mmy mmotherstanding oon hher wwedding dday wwith ttwo ssmall

bags bbeside hher. -TTone SStockkenström

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FFRROOMM NNOORRWWAAYYMarita Bakken, to the Universityof Illinois/Chicago, $10,000Ms. Bakken's Masters studiesfocused on European politics andthe role of the small state in inter-national politics.

Ida Bryhn, to the New EnglandConservatory of Music, $10,000Ms. Bryhn pursued an M.Musicdegree in viola performance.

Monica Dalen, from theUniversity of Oslo, $5,000Dr. Dalen's research in Bostonwas a study of issues related tointernational adoptions in Norwayand the U.S.

Sunniva Djupedal, to the Schoolof Visual Arts, $14,000Ms. Djupedal pursued an M.F.A. ingraphic design.

Tonje Gulbrandsen, to ColumbiaUniversity, $15,000Ms. Gulbrandsen's M.B.A. studiesfocused on global marketing.

Johanna Hals, to AlliantUniversity/Los Angeles, $10,000Ms. Hals' doctoral studies in clini-cal psychology focused on thetreatment of autism.

Lars-Ruben Hirsch, to CornellUniversity, $14,000Mr. Hirsch's M.B.A. studiesfocused on Latin American markets.

Anita Høyvik, to Columbia University, $16,000Ms. Høyvik's Masters studies inAmerican studies focused on popular culture.

Kata Kiss, to Columbia University,$15,000Ms. Kiss' Masters studies in publicadministration focused on interna-tional politics and development.

Trine Kvidal, to the University ofUtah, $6,000Ms. Kvidal's dissertation researchin communication examinedadvertising and the process ofidentity formation.

Leif Lundaas, to theMassachusetts Institute ofTechnology/Sloan School,$10,000Mr. Lundaas' M.B.A. studiesfocused on entrepreneurship inthe energy sector.

Marcus Paus, to the ManhattanSchool of Music, $15,000Mr. Paus pursued an M.Musicdegree in composition.

Ole-Petter Pedersen, to theUniversity ofMassachusetts/Boston, $10,000Dr. Pedersen's research focusedon the development of an oceano-graphic modeling program forNorwegian coastal regions.

Linda Prestgård, to theUniversity of Denver, $15,000Ms. Prestgård's Masters studiesfocused on conflict managementand crisis communication.

Jan Egil Ramberg, toNorthwestern University/KelloggSchool of Management, $10,000Mr. Ramberg's M.B.A. studiesfocused on the internationalexpansion of companies.

Hilde Restad, to the University ofVirginia, $6,000Ms. Restad's doctoral studies inAmerican studies focused on U.S.foreign policy.

Karin Tan, to Harvard University,$7,000Ms. Tan's dissertation researchfocused on the notion of logicalnecessity in Ludwig Wittgenstein'sphilosophy.

Riga Tenzin, to ColumbiaUniversity, Johan Jørgen HolstAward, $20,000Mr. Tenzin's studies in internation-al affairs focused on multilateraldiplomacy, with a regional focuson Asia.

Erik Thomsen, guidance coun-selor from Stavanger, Norway,$3,000Mr. Thomsen, who is a teacherand counselor in the Stavangerpublic school system, conductedresearch on specialized counsel-ing theories.

Edle Wærner, to the New YorkAcademy of Art, $10,000Ms. Wærner's M.F.A. studiesfocused on figurative sculpture.

TTOO NNOORRWWAAYYJorge Otero-Pailos, fromColumbia University, $3,000Dr. Otero-Pailos surveyed anddocumented buildings designedby Norwegian architectural theo-rist Christian Norberg-Schulz.

Lori Talcott, jewelry artist fromSeattle, Washington, $18,000Ms. Talcott created a body of jewelry based on research on traditional Scandinavian adorn-ment and clothing.

Monika Zagar, from theUniversity of Minnesota, $11,000Dr. Zagar's research at the OsloUniversity Library and theUniversity of Tromsø examinedthe writings of Knut Hamsun, hiscontemporary culture in Norway,and Nazi ideology.

FFRROOMM SSWWEEDDEENNSara Almgren, to GeorgeWashington University, $20,000Ms. Almgren's Masters studiesfocused on immigration issueswithin Latin America.

Staffan Andersson, to HarvardUniversity, $10,000Mr. Andersson pursued an M.B.A.

Johan Bjursell, to George MasonUniversity, $18,000Mr. Bjursell's dissertation researchin computational finance exam-ined risk analysis, applied timeseries and derivatives.

Maria Grund, to New YorkUniversity, $20,000Ms. Grund pursued an M.F.A. indramatic writing.

Perry Johansson, to ColumbiaUniversity, $15,000Dr. Johansson's research focusedon Sweden's relationship toChinese culture during the 20thcentury.

Helena Karlsson, to theUniversity of Minnesota, $5,000Ms. Karlsson's dissertationresearch in Scandinavian studiesfocused on minority voices amongcontemporary Scandinavian andGerman writers.

Karin Larsén, to PurdueUniversity, $5,000Ms. Larsén enrolled in doctoralcourses in sustainable agriculture.

Vivian Nilsson, to The GraduateCenter/CUNY, $15,000Ms. Nilsson's doctoral studies inpolitical science examined thedevelopment of regional structuralaid in the EU and its impact onthe member states and the inter-national community.

Anders Ögren, to Stern BusinessSchool, New York University,$12,000Dr. Ögren's research focused onfinancial sector development andeconomic growth in 19th-centurySweden.

Johan Söderström, to theUniversity of California/Berkeley,$12,000Mr. Söderström's dissertationresearch in physics focused onthe water solubility of drugs.

Karin Zetterholm, to YaleUniversity, $12,500Dr. Karin Zetterholm's researchfocused on religious authority inbiblical interpretation in ancientJudaism and Christianity.

Magnus Zetterholm, to YaleUniversity, $12,500Dr. Magnus Zetterholm's researchfocused on Jewish-Gentile rela-tions during the early Jesus move-ment.

TTOO SSWWEEDDEENNElizabeth Blum, from theUniversity of Pittsburgh, $17,000Dr. Blum's research at theKarolinska Institute examined therole of sex hormones in cognitiveperformance

Laurel Hart, musician fromIthaca, New York, $3,000Ms. Hart attended folk music festivals and courses, as well astook private lessons on regularfiddle, Swedish nyckelharpa, andNorwegian hardanger fiddle.

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David Jessup, Fellow to Sweden

Linda Fair, Fellow to Denmark

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Tomas Höök, from the Universityof Michigan, $18,000Dr. Höök's research at StockholmUniversity examined the sustain-able management of the BalticSea herring fishery.

David Jessup, from the Universityof Washington, $18,000Mr. Jessup's dissertation researchat Uppsala University examinedthe emergence and developmentof the free-church movement inSweden and among Swedishimmigrants within the U.S.

Steven Lyon, from CornellUniversity, $14,500Mr. Lyon's dissertation research atUppsala University examined pollution sources that threaten nat-ural water systems

Michelle Neuman, from TeachersCollege, Columbia University,$3,000Ms. Neuman's dissertationresearch at Stockholm Universitywas part of a comparative study ofFrance, Sweden and the U.S.investigating the role of gover-nance in shaping childcare policy.

Susan Schofer, from theCalifornia Institute of Technology,$2,000Dr. Schofer's research atStockholm University examinedartificial photosynthesis as ameans to produce dihydrogenfrom water for use as fuel.

Tone Stockenström, fromColumbia College, $3,000Ms. Stockenström examined herSwedish-American immigrant identity through photographing herextended family in Uppsala.

Eszter Szalczer, from the StateUniversity of New York/Albany,$3,000Dr. Szalczer's research at theStrindberg Museum examined theroles Strindberg's daughters fulfilled in his writing.

Sarah Tiedemann, from the NewEngland Conservatory of Music,$11,000Ms. Tiedemann enrolled in thePostgraduate Diploma program atthe Royal College of Music, whereshe studied flute with JanBengtson of the Royal SwedishPhilharmonic.

Nina Young, from the School ofVisual Arts, $3,000Ms. Young photographed Swedishfunctionalist architecture and thesurrounding environment as ameans of documenting new con-cepts of national identity.

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FROM THE ASF ARCHIVESA LLook BBehind tthe FFund:General IIvor TThord-GGray, tthe ““father oof TTarzan”Two years ago, The Longboat profiled GeneralIvor Thord-Gray, one of the ASF’s most generous,and certainly most colorful, benefactors. Born inStockholm in 1878, Thord-Gray led a life as a soldier of fortune, serving 11 nations in 13 wars,including the Boer War and the Mexican CivilWar, in which he served as Pancho Villa’sCommander of the Artillery. Following his mili-tary career, and despite only four years of formaleducation, Thord-Gray went on to become anoted archaeologist and linguist. Dedicating him-self to study of the Rarámuri people of Mexico,Thord-Gray authored an important dictionary ofthe Tarahumara language in 1955. Following hisdeath in 1964, the ASF received a $1,000,000bequest which established the Thord-GrayMemorial Fellowship Fund.

A biography of Thord-Gray, which will bepublished shortly in Sweden, gives Thord-Gray anew claim to fame, identifying the General as the“father of Tarzan!” While serving in the BoerWar in 1901, the General and his troops rodeinto a band of apes in the area of Drakensberg.The apes quickly fled up a steep mountainside,leaving behind a young white boy, about nineyears old, who had apparently been part of thepack. The boy had been badly injured in the

chase, and later died of his injuries, but it waseventually surmised that he was the same childwho had been pulled from his baby carriage byapes in the area eight years earlier. Some yearsafter the end of the war, Thord-Gray recountedthe tale in a published interview that was read bythe American author Edgar Rice Burroughs, whoused the story as the inspiration behind the fictional character Tarzan.

FFrroomm NNoorrwwaayy::Syracuse University was chosen to host DDrr.. DDaanniieellHHeerraaddssttvveeiitt, who is a professor and researcher at theNorwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). He willspend the fall 2005 semester affiliated with the MaxwellSchool of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Dr. Heradstveit,who was an associate of Johan Jørgen Holst, heads researchgroups at NUPI on conflict resolution, the Middle East, andCentral Asia and the Caucasus. He has published extensively on these topics, with his most recent publicationbeing Oil in the Gulf: Obstacles to Democracy andDevelopment (2004). [picture at left]

The University of Massachusetts/Amherst was chosen to host PPrrooffeessssoorr NNoorraallvv VVeeggggeellaanndd, who is a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Lillehammer University College. He will spend the spring2006 semester affiliated with the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University ofMassachusetts. Professor Veggeland has authored ten books and numerous other publications, with hisresearch focus being on European integration and the europeanization of the nation state.

FFrroomm SSwweeddeenn::The University of Washington was chosen to host DDrr.. AAnnnniiccaa KKrroonnsseellll, who is a professor in theDepartment of Political Science at Lund University. She will spend the spring 2006 semester affiliated with theDepartment of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington. Dr. Kronsell has taught extensively inthe fields of international politics, environmental studies and feminist studies, and is currently developing alarge multi-disciplinary European research project on sustainability governance.

Harvard University was chosen to host DDrr.. BBoo RRootthhsstteeiinn, who is the August Röhss Professor in political science at Göteborg University. He will spend the spring 2006 semester affiliated with the Minda deGunzberg Center for European Studies and the Department of Government at Harvard. Dr. Rothstein hasbeen a visiting fellow at institutions throughout Europe and the U.S., and has published widely on the quality ofgovernments and political institutions, with his next publication being Creating Social Trust in Post-SocialistTransitions (2005).

All four ASF Visiting Lecturers will be visiting academic institutions and making lecture appearances throughout the U.S. Contact the ASF at grants@amscan.org for further information on their lecture plans.

Four ASF Visiting Lecturers chosen for 2005-06

Major General Ivor Thord-Gray, 1933. Oil Painting in Army Museum, Stockholm