Research Panels

Knut Øyangen, Western Norway University
Landscapes in the Mind: Place and Identity

Tom Olmstead, Independent Scholar
Adapting to America: The Life of One Norwegian Settler Through Her Letters

Inga Lill Grønnerud, Independent Scholar
A case Study on Migration: From Vinger to the United States – Portrayed thru a Collection of Letters

Kayla Hanson, University of Oslo
Henrik Ibsen and the Negotiation of Norwegian-American Identity

Jana Sverdljuk, National Library of Norway
Navigating Identity and Conflict: Norwegian Settlers’ Encounters with Native Americans in Transnational Migration Literature

Liv Marit Haakenstad, Independent Scholar
Carl Søyland: One Man’s impact on a Newspaper and the Norwegian-American Society 

Inger-Kristin Larsen Vie, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (Rena)
Norwegian Heroes – Biographical Depictions of Famous Norwegians in Norwegian-American Reading Books

Marika Josephson, Independent Scholar
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Miranda Moen, Independent Scholar
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Siv Ringdal, Norsk Folkemuseum
Bubble gum, Canned Fruit, and Readymade Fashion Mass Consumerism and Democratic Practices in Transatlantic Material Remittance from America to Norway 1900–1940

Eric Becklin, St. Olaf College
Norwegian Americans and China Missions: Transnational and Im/Emigration Experiences of Daniel and Anna Nelson and Their Family, 1890-1948

L. DeAne Lagerquist, St. Olaf College
A Life on Three Continents: Gertrude Sovik’s Transnational Identity

Marte Lægreid, VID University College (Oslo)
A Scandinavian American Lutheran Education Project in Central China

Liv Marit Haakenstad, Independent Scholar
Onwards to Zion. The Norwegian American Mormons converts in the 1800’s 

Sarah Anne Waters, Belhaven University
Frydetoner and Harpen: Two Children’s Songbooks for a Changing Immigrant Community in the 1890s

Helene Hamar, Volda
Norwegian Pentecostalism in Brooklyn, New York

Anna Peterson, Luther College
The Business of Baskets: Weaving Economic Ties Between the Bethany Indian Mission, Ho-Chunk Families, and Lutheran Ladies’ Aides in the Mid-Twentieth Century Midwest

Marthe Hommerstad, National Library of Norway
Emigration and Argumentation – Debates in the Norwegian parliament, 1814 to 1845

Mikael Lyngaas, University of Oslo
A Norwegian Socialist’s Encounter with the United States: The writings of Harald Hansen 1909- 1912

Ruth Hemstad, National Library of Norway and University of Oslo
Scandinavian Discord and Discourses on Emigration 

Hilde Petra Brungot, Independent Scholar
Norwegian-American Transition from Prairie Settlements to Urbanization Dorthea Dahl (20 March 1881-11 September 1958)

Torgrim Guttormsen, Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU)
The Presidential Addresses on 9 October Leif Erikson Day: Histories, Memories, and Politics

Remi Berg, Independent Scholar
Transatlantic Memory and Identity: The Legacy of Colonel Heg and the 15th Wisconsin in Norway and Norwegian America

David Mauk, University of Oslo
The Heart of the Heartland – Revisited and in Context

Daron Olson, Indiana University East
Hey, Don’t Forget About Us: The Other 1925 Norse-American Centennial Celebrations

Hans-Petter Grav, NTNU
1905: Union Dissolution and the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition

Steven Luksan, Independent Scholar
Leif Erikson in Seattle: Gerard Tonning and Norwegian Opera in the New World

Jan Kokkin, University of Oslo
Logging in America. From Solør to Grays Harbor

Marie Fongaard Siem, Norsk Folkemuseum
Domestic Scenery: Anders Beer Wilse’s photographic visualisation of Norwegian-American Family Life

Kari G. Hempel, University of Stavanger, Norway, retired associated professor
A Female Pioneer Life. An Unusual Immigrant Story

Per Ivar Engevold, Independent Scholar
A Norwegian Tragedy in the U.S.: The Smuttynose Murders in a Microhistorical Perspective

Sandra Bestland, Independent Scholar
The Lives & Loves of Norwegian Women Immigrants: From Amsterdam to Swaziland 1825-1900

Nils Olav Østrem, University of Stavanger
Local and Micro – How to use Migration Categories on Lowest Research Level

Caitlin Sackrison, St. Olaf College
Proving’ Their Worth: The History of Norwegian Women Homesteaders in Brown County, Minnesota

Olivia Gunn, University of Washington, Seattle
First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage? Reproduction, Settler Migration, and the Fisherman’s Wife

Mona Holm, UiO/Anno Museum Kvinnemuseet/Norsk Utvandrermuseum
Migrant Feminism: Norwegian-American Women’s Transnational Contributions 

Lori Ann Lahlum, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“I was [a] Natural Born Citizen”: Norwegian American Women, Marriage, and Expatriation in Minnesota

Laura Loge, Independent Scholar
The Women who Migrated and the Music They Made