Join NAHA for a special webinar featuring the inaugural recipients of the NAHA Archives and Publication Fellowships, Mona Holm and Marika Josephson. Holm and Josephson will share how their research on Norwegian-American women’s transnational experiences have been informed by NAHA’s archival collections. This behind-the-scenes conversation will explore how new scholarship is bringing fresh perspectives to the study of Norwegian immigration to North America.
Archives Fellowship 2024 — Mona Holm, PhD Fellow, University of Oslo
Project: “Migrant Feminism: Norwegian-American Women’s Transnational Experiences.” Holm will examine Norwegian-American women’s perception of the United States — and the American Women’s Rights Movement in particular. She will explore how women conveyed their views to their networks both in Norway and America and how they contributed to a new public sphere that changed Norway and the Nordic countries.
Publications Fellowship 2024 — Marika Josephson, PhD, Murphysboro, Ill.
Project: “A Life in Lefse: Anna Sekse Kindem’s ‘Amerikabrev,’ Letters to the Newspaper Hardanger, 1938–1976,” a proposal based on a collection of newspaper columns housed at the NAHA Archives. Translated by former NAHA archivist Charlotte Jacobson, the columns make for a fascinating collection that shines fresh light on the second century of Norwegian immigration.