Dr. Adam Hjorthén

Adam Hjorthén is a Senior Lecturer in North American Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. With a PhD in history (2015) from Stockholm University, his research deals with U.S. cultural heritage—focusing on studies of commemorations, monuments, and genealogy—and Euro–American relations in the 20th and 21st centuries. Hjorthén has taught at Stockholm University and the Free University of Berlin, and been a visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota and George Washington University. He is the 2018 recipient of the Loubat Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquity, and the 2015 Orm Øverland prize from the Nordic Association for American Studies. He is the former president of the Swedish Association for American Studies (2016–2020), author of Cross-Border Commemorations: Celebrating Swedish Settlement in America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018), and co-editor of Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021).