Browse Exhibits (12 total)

Students from pan-Chinese entities, including China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong,  have come to the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University seeking a liberal arts education since 1923.  Members of the Saint Ben's and Saint John's community have likewise benefitted from connections with China, which has hosted cultural exchanges, study abroad, and collaborative research with Chinese institutions. This exhibit highlights some milestones in the Johnnie/Bennie and China connection.      

Principal researcher: Kathryn Schug '25
Advisors: Peggy Roske, Diana Symons, Kathleen Parker
Posted: January 2023

For more information about the history of CSB/SJU visit:
College of Saint Benedicts Archives

Saint John's University Archives

Inspired by the Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict, faculty and students have long affirmed women's role in religion, questioned women's exclusion from ordination, and explored women's spirituality.  This exhibit traces some of the ways Saint Benedict's women have led the exploration of women's full participation in religious traditions.  

Principal researcher: Kathryn Schug '25
Contributors: Peggy Roske, Kathleen Parker
Posted: April 2022

For more information about the history of CSB/SJU visit:
College of Saint Benedicts Archives

Saint John's University Archives

For nearly a century, Black students, employees and visitors to the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University have been raising their voices, and inspiring white allies to join them.  Their words call our community to live up to our Benedictine values of hospitality, justice, peace, and respect for persons.    This exhibit restores and amplifies those voices as we continue to work toward the common good.

Principal researcher: Kathryn Schug '25
Advisor: Kathleen Parker
Posted: March 2022

For more information about the history of CSB/SJU visit:
College of Saint Benedicts Archives

Saint John's University Archives

Margret Dietz was, briefly, a teacher of dance at the College of Saint Benedict. Educated in dance, art, history, philosophy and music, she survived the Nazis, who had forced her to dance for the troops on the Russian front.  She eventually came to the U.S., where she taught dance at several colleges and universities, including the University of Minnesota. In the early 1970s she was a choreographer and a popular teacher of summer dance workshops at Saint Ben’s, where she was instrumental in the establishment of the Choreogram dance troupe. While at Saint Ben’s, in the summer of 1972, Margret suffered a heart attack and died suddenly within days; her devoted students were devastated. With the permission of the Sisters, Margret was buried in the Saint Benedict’s Monastery cemetery. Forty years later, three of her former students published a book, Margret Dietz: A Dancer’s Legacy, and donated all of the Dietz research materials, documents, correspondence, and personal effects in their possession, including some costumes designed, sewn, and worn by Margret, to create the Margret Dietz Collection in the CSB Archives.