Anna Rue is Director of CSUMC after serving as a Community Curator at the Center with the Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest Project. She holds an M.A. in American Studies from the UMass-Boston and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies and Folklore from UW-Madison. Rue teaches courses relating to fieldwork methodology, public folklore, regional folklore, and Nordic American cultures and identities. In addition, she researches Norwegian American communities in the region, focusing in particular on musical traditions, identity, immigration, and folk art.