Meet Even J. Kvelland, 2017-18 Thanks To Scandinavia Hebert Singer Memorial Scholar at Columbia University School of International and Political Affairs
Even Kvelland is a Norwegian student pursuing his Master’s of International Affairs at Columbia focusing on the intersection of geopolitics, security, and energy. He holds a B.A. in Government from Macalester College where he was a Kofi Annan Scholar. Even has worked as an advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo heading the education and research portfolio and promoting trans-Atlantic student and research exchange. He has also worked for the…
Hanna Nordenswan, 2017-18 Thanks To Scandinavia Kim Wall Memorial Scholar
Hanna is pursuing an MFA in Documentary Film at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and has studied documentary film and journalism in Tanzania and South Africa. As a journalist Hanna has mainly worked with radio, but she considers herself as a written word journalist as well. She has written from Zanzibar and reported from the border of Burundi and Rwanda to tap into Rwanda’s environmental challenges. As…
Karl Anker Jorgensen, PhD, 1985-86 TTS Scholar at Cornell University
Dr. Karl Anker Jorgensen, Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus It’s a safe guess that the thought of interviewing a world-famous organic chemist would seem intimidating to most of us, since such titans of genius don’t cross our paths very often. So when we caught up with Dr. Karl-Anker Jorgensen on a recent visit to New York with his wife Mia, it was a relief – and a delight –…
Søren Larsen, 2016-2017 Thanks To Scandinavia Scholar at Cornell University
Søren Larsen is a Danish PhD. student at Cornell University in the Department of German Studies. He works primarily within the fields of philosophy, political science and the arts. He is a recipient of the Thanks To Scandinavia Richard and Alice Netter Scholarship at Cornell University. What brought about your strong interest in German Jewish philosophy and literature? If the writers I have been interested in were German-Jewish, that has…
