Scandinavian Studies : Scan|Design Fellows 2008



	Spring 2008 Scan\|Design Fellowship Recipients
	Richard Anderson Aarhus University: Department of Political Science Advanced undergraduate Richard Anderson is majoring in Political Science at UW and is supported by a Scan\|Design fellowship during Spring semester 2008 at Aarhus University. As a 5th-year senior Mr. Anderson has already completed a project with the Center for American Politics and Public Policy (CAPPP) for which he was awarded a Mary Gates Research Scholarship. At Aarhus University, Richard will work with Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Peter Mortensen, founders of the Danish Agendas Project. Aarhus was one of the first European Universities to participate in PAP (Policy Agendas Projects) under CAPP. In preparation for his first international educational experience and his work as a Scan\|Design fellow, Mr. Anderson completed DANISH 101 at the UW during Fall quarter 2007.
	Andrea Baer University of Copenhagen: Departments of Nordic and Comparative Literatures Andrea Baer is studying Danish language and literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen during the Spring semester 2008. Ms. Baer is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the UW with specialization in American, German, and Scandinavian literatures and cinema studies. Andrea has served as a Teaching Assistant at the UW in various language, literature, and film courses. As a graduate student at the UW, she undertook the study of Danish and achieved an advanced proficiency. The opportunity to study for a full semester at a University of Copenhagen allows Andrea to engage in graduate-level literary studies taught in Danish and to enhance the comparative perspectives in her Ph.D. dissertation dealing with postmodern fiction. Andrea is also interning at the University of Copenhagen's scholarly press, Museum Tusculanum Forlag.
	Sam Gooch Aalborg University: Sustainable Energy Management and Planning MS Program A UW graduate student in Mechanical Engineering, Sam Gooch is spending Spring Semester 08 in the Sustainable Energy Management and Planning program at Aalborg University. Sam has studied sustainable energy design at the UW under Professor Phil Malte. Throughout his undergraduate engineering studies at UW, Sam focused on sustainable energy engineering. A Seattle native, born and raised in Ballard, Sam completed DANISH 101 (beginning Danish) at the UW in preparation for his first foreign study opportunity. In the future, he hopes to work on collaborative research projects in bio-energy involving Aalborg and UW College of Engineering.
	Katherine Idziorek Royal Academy of Fine Arts (School of Architecture) in Copenhagen Katherine (“Katie”) Idziorek received her M.Arch degree in June of 2007, and is now working to finish her Masters in Urban Planning. Ms. Idziorek has previously received numerous awards and scholarships for her professional achievements, including the American Institute of Architects Henry Adams Medal (Spring 2007). A native of Minnesota, she has traveled and worked in diverse regions of Asia and Europe and has studied Chinese, Italian and Spanish. During the spring semester 2008, the Scan\|Design Fellowship supports Katie’s work with two professors at the Institute of Building Culture at the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Professors Algreen-Ussing and Thule Kristensen) and research in her area of specilization: community involvement in design and communicating community values in the built environment.
	Catherine Silva University of Copenhagen: Department of Regional and Cross-Cultural Studies Catherine (“Cat”) Silva is an undergraduate in her senior year with a double-major in Danish and History and a minor in Scandinavian Area Studies. In high school, Ms. Silva spent a year in Denmark (at Grenaa Gymnasium) supported by the Rotary Youth Exchange Program and fell in love with Denmark. Having grown up in a multi-cultural home, Cat has selected the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen for coursework; she is keen to learn how Danish scholars study the US. Of course, Ms. Silva is also spending her semester in Denmark fine-tuning her advanced proficiency in Danish and likely trading her Jutlandic accent for a Copenhagen dialect.
	Sarah Valdez Aarhus University: Department of Political Science Also studying at Aarhus University is Sarah Valdez, a Ph.D. candidate at the UW in Sociology with a dissertation project focused on contemporary Danish politics and immigration policies. Ms. Valdez is spending the semester at Aarhus taking courses in political sociology and collecting data for her Ph.D. dissertation. Sarah is particularly interested in the Danish electoral system and will work closely with professors, such as Lise Togeby, of the Dept. of Political Science at Aarhus, to enhance her research. Sarah has already completed three years of Danish language study at the UW and was a participant in the Copenhagen Classroom 2006 Summer program.

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