Laura Madokoro, Carleton University
History of migration, 19th and 20th century refugee movements and the history of humanitarianism

Professor Madokoro is an award-winning historian and Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carleton University. She is the author of Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War (Harvard, 2016) and co-editor of Dominion of Race: Rethinking Canada’s International History (UBC, 2017). Her current research focuses on the history of sanctuary.

Fluency: English

Natalie M. Van Deusen, University of Alberta
Scandinavian language, literature, and culture

Natalie M. Van Deusen is the inaugural Henry Cabot and Linnea Lodge Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Alberta, where she teaches a variety of courses on Scandinavian language, literature, and culture. Her research interests include Old Norse-Icelandic paleography and philology, manuscript culture, hagiography and religious literature, and womenʼs and gender studies.

Fluency: English