This year’s NDSU Gunlogson Endowed Scholars have been announced. Mike Christenson, associate professor of architecture and landscape architecture, and Miriam Mara, associate professor of English, were each awarded $5,000 to pursue research using the archival resources of the Institute for Regional Studies.

Christenson’s project, “Urban Renewal in Fargo: A Study of Architectural and Urban Epistemology,” and Mara’s project, “Anti-Abortion Rhetoric: Jane Bovard and North Dakota Not-Nice,” were described by reviewers as “exceptionally promising.”

Committee members who blind-reviewed the proposal applications included Trista Raezer, interim director of NDSU Archives; Lisa Eggebraaten, humanities librarian; Angela Smith, assistant professor of English, and the committee’s chair, Emily Wicktor, assistant professor of English.

The Gunlogson fund, established by a gift from G.B. Gunlogson’s charitable remainder trust, supports scholarly work related to the publications and archives of the Institute for Regional Studies, advancing general university outreach and NDSU’s land-grant mission through institute-related activities. The fund is jointly managed by the NDSU College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and the NDSU Libraries. 

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