ESFL Journal

10 Takeaways

By Zoe Quinn Zoe Quinn (she/her) is a student at the University of Minnesota majoring in art and was an intern this spring for ESFL as a part of HECUA’s

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Dancing While…

By Michèle Steinwald For those new to the series of conversations, Minnesota Dance & the Ecstasies of Influences, welcome! Since 2014, we have curated and documented 16 gatherings that have centered

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Sal Salerno

Salvatore Salerno has long been one of this country’s leading scholars on labor and cultural activism among Italian immigrant workers, particularly in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).  He

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Naomi Scheman

Naomi Scheman is a former Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota.  She began her career

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Ben Mchie

Benjamin Mchie is the founder and executive director of The African American Registry. (www.aaregistry.org).   The Registry is one of the most comprehensive databases of African American heritage online containing thousands

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Paula Rabinowitz

Paula Rabinowitz’s research and teaching are in the areas of American materialist feminist cultural studies. Her work considers the interlocking roles of cinema, photography, painting and material culture in and

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Toni Randolph

Toni Randolph was a veteran award-winning journalist and a long-time news editor for Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) from 2003-2016. Toni died unexpectedly in July of 2016 at the age of

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