Introduction to Scandinavian Immigrants and Others in America

Jørn Brøndal is associate professor of American history at the University of Southern Denmark. He took his PhD degree at the University of Copenhagen in 1999. His book, Ethnic Leadership and Midwestern Politics: Scandinavian Americans and the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890-1914 (2004), earned him a Wisconsin Historical Society Book Award of Merit. Brøndal works with political, ethnic, and racial history. He served on the editorial board of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2009-2012 and was president of the Nordic Association for American Studies 2011-13. He is currently president of the Danish Association for American Studies (DAAS) and serves on the editorial board of American Studies in Scandinavia.