Where have the Scandinavian-Americanists been?

Several prominent immigration scholars participated in the 1984 conference on 'Scandinavians and other Immigrants in Urban America' held at St. Olaf College. At the conference, the University of Chicago's Kathleen Neils Conzen lambasted Scandinavian-American scholars for restricting themselves to the study of their ethnic roots, instead of placing their experiences within a more general context. Scandinavian-American scholars began integrating their studies with the whole field of immigration studies in a positive reaction to the criticism.
AT THIS TIME of writing a decade has passed since the conference on 'Scandinavians and Other Immigrants in Urban America,' held in 1984 at Saint Olaf College. This symposium was [...]