Paula Ivaska Robbins, a retired academic administrator, is the author of The Travels of Peter Kalm, Finnish-Swedish Naturalist, Through Colonial North America, 1748-1751. She was a consultant to the Linnaeus tercentennial exhibition project of the American-Swedish Historical Museum and is a volunteer guide at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, where she lives.
Her parents were born in Finland, and Finnish was her first language. Dr. Robbins taught adult education at the University of Helsinki in 1982 under a grant from the Finnish Academy. She is also the author of Successful Midlife Career Change, (1978), Nights of Summer, Nights of Autumn (1992), a historical novel based on the life of her Finnish grandmother during World War I, and The Royal Family of Concord: Samuel, Elizabeth and Rockwood Hoar and their Friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson (2003). Her cousin, Ari Ivaska, is Professor of Chemistry at Åbo Akademi, where Kalm later taught.
Tuesday, September 4, 2 PM, The North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville, NC
The Seventh Annual New Sweden History Conference: "Carl Linnaeus, Pehr Kalm, and the Early American Scientific Community"
Saturday, October 13, 2007, Trinity Episcopal Church, Swedesboro, New Jersey
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