The Viking Immigrants snatches the crown for “Best Book in Regional History (Prairies)” from the Canadian Historical Association!

Books The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North Americans. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020 Articles “Icelandic Cake Fight: History of an Immigrant Recipe.” Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies 19, no. 4 (2019): 28-41. “‘Eskimo’ Immigrants and Colonial Soldiers: Icelandic Immigrants and the North-West Resistance, 1885.” Canadian Historical Review 99, no. 1 (2018): 63-97. (Winner of the 2019…

    Biography Dr. L.K. Bertram is an award-winning author and Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, specializing in economic and material histories of, gender, sexuality, and colonialism in the 19th century North American West, including a book currently in progress on sex workers as early firearms owners in…