Tove Dahl

Tove Dahl is dean of Skogfjorden, the Norwegian Language Village. Tove has been on staff for 30 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 earned her bachelor’s degree in English at Augsburg College, Minneapolis. She completed her doctorate in educational psychology at the University of Texas-Austin. She 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. While working on the curriculum she also studied the literature of Norwegian immigrants in the U.S. at the University of 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.