Tove Dahl

Tove Tove Dahl is dean of Skogfjorden, the Norwegian Language Village. She has been on staff for 32 years.  She was a villager herself at the Language Villages for four years.

Tove is fluent in Norwegian. She has also studied Russian, French, Spanish and Dutch. She recently was named Knight of the First Class of the Norwegian Order of Merit by King Harald V of Norway for the advancement of Norwegian language and culture in the United States.

Tove earned her bachelor’s degree in English at Augsburg College, Minneapolis. She completed her doctorate in educational psychology at the University of Texas-Austin. Tove studied music at Svanvik Folkehøgskole in Svanvik, Norway, and developed a spinning and weaving curriculum for Skogfjorden while at the Statens Lærerhøgskole i Forming, Oslo.

Tove is associate professor of psychology at the University of Tromsø, Norway, the world’s northernmost university. She also sits on the board of Norway’s Centre for Peace Studies.