see also Sweet Treats biographical information, and Meet Your
Professor (Slides: .pptx .pdf)
Meet Your Professor
Tim Roufs teaches Anthropology of Food, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Europe, Culture and Personality, Understanding Global Cultures, and Ancient Middle
America. And for more than a quarter century he also taught Advanced
Writing: Social Sciences.
Tim's specializations include cultural anthropology, anthropology of food, Middle America,
culture and personality, sociocultural change—applied, and prehistoric
cultures.
The Roufs Family in the Food "Business"
Tim's family has been in the food "business" since at least the early 18th century, first as farmers and millers in the Sittard-Nieuwstadt area of The Netherlands.
Roufs Mill, Sittard, Netherlands
Built in 1582, it became the Roufs Familly property in 1846 (photos)
In the 19th century the Roufs became the town butchers in Winsted, MN, later operating the City Meat Market in Winsted from the late 19th century until mid-20th-century. The City Meat Market became known for its "famous Winsted Bologna"--"a familiar name throughout the the upper Midwest" . . .
"Have you had your Winsted Bologna?"
-- Brian Haines, McLeod County Chronicle (26 July 2024)
(original)
"The 'famous Winsted Bologna' recipes comes to Howard Lake"
-- Jennifer Gallus, Herald Journal (August 2007) (original)
In the early 1950s they added and also ran the Coffee Shop, a small popular diner in Winsted. In 1972 my brother Tom sold the businesses and joined Wilson and Company (purchased in 1967 by Jim Ling of the Ling-Temco-Vought [LTV] conglomerate), working there as an executive until he joined John Morrell and Company in a similar capacity. Switching to the "non-perishable" segment of the food industry, Tom later joined the Sunburst Food Service Program specializing in products for retail food outlets. |
Tim received his Ph.D. from The University of Minnesota in 1971, his M.A. from The University of Minnesota in 1967, his A.B. from The University of Notre Dame in 1965, and his High
School diploma from Holy
Trinity High School, Winsted, MN,
in 1961.
Tim has done fieldwork in Mexico, Hungary, and on the Leech
Lake Reservation in Minnesota. A major project from Leech Lake has
been the preparation of a biography of Paul Buffalo which was published in three volumes in 2019, which has been profiled by Britney Leanos and Cheryl Reitan in
Ojibwe Lessons.
Tim was one of the founding members, and initial Acting Director of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
Tim has three times served as Director of UMD's Study in England Program. The UMD
Study in England Programme, University of Birmingham, England.
In 1989 Tim was a Visiting Fulbright Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. Tim later gave a Keynote Address, at the 13th Annual microCAD International Computer Science Conference, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary, 24 February 1999: "inter-Facing the Inevitable: Appropriate Technology in the 21st Century".
For a sampling of Roufs' written work, have a look at the Bibliography page . . .
(slides)
Tim and his Hearing Assistant Partner Bentley are graduates of the Can Do Canine Assistance Dog training program, New Hope, MN.
"Bentley’s Touches Help Tim to Keep Touching Lives," Can Do Canines News, 18 May 2022.
"Total Confidence in Bentley," Can Do Canines Assistant Dog Feature Story, 6 February 2019.
Presentation: Alpha Delta Kappa_Can Do Canines Presentation, Bloomington, MN, 2023.04.11
Can Do Canines is an accredited member of Assistance Dogs International, a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to improve the areas of training, placement and utilization of assistance dogs.
Bentley is the UMD Tau Kappa Epsilon "Chapter Good Boy"
Timmy and Bentley
Gretchen Roufs, 2015
Honors and Awards
Tim has taught more students at UMD than any other instructor or professor in the history of the school.
Tim is the husband of [—  —] Kim
Smyth Roufs.
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