Head of Nordic Studies Benjamin Teitelbaum has received the research award from Germany's Institute for the Study of Radical Movements for his 2013 dissertation 'Come Hear our Merry Song': Shifts in the Sound of Contemporary Swedish Radical Nationalism. The award seeks to recognize research "that advanced the theoretical understanding of extremist phenomena." Teitelbaum's dissertation also won the 2013 Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities at Brown University.