Samira Saramo (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7570-6177) is an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turku’s John Morton Center for North American Studies. Saramo’s interdisciplinary research focuses on ethnicity, gender, emotion, violence, place-making, and social movements in both historical and current contexts. Her research project, “Death and Mourning in ‘Finnish North America’,” explores Finnish immigrants’ personal narrations and everyday experiences with death and mourning in the years 1880–1939. She has recently published “‘I Have Such Sad News’: Loss in Finnish North American Letters” in European Journal of Life Writing (2018) and “Lakes, Rock, Forest: Placing Finnish Canadian History” in Journal of Finnish Studies (2018). Saramo holds a Ph.D. in History from York University (Canada).
Ethnologist Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9056-4982), Ph.D., is an Emil Aaltonen Foundation Research Fellow in the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). In her current research, she examines transnational destinies and family histories of WWII analyzing the ways in which displacement is transmitted and communicated through stories and mementoes. Koskinen-Koivisto is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Ethnologia Fennica, the open access journal of the Association of Finnish Ethnologists. Her main publications include the monograph Her Own Worth: Negotiations of Subjectivity in the Life Narrative of a Female Labourer (2014) and the forthcoming co-edited volume The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place (2019).
Hanna Snellman (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1804-088X) is Vice Rector and Professor of Ethnology at the University of Helsinki. Snellman’s research since the 1990s has focused on the ethnography of mobility, especially Finnish Lumberjacks and Finnish immigrants to Sweden and North America, and the History of European Ethnology. In addition to several articles and book chapters, she has published four monographs including Khants’ Time (2000) and The Road Taken (2005), and co-edited several volumes and special issues such as Journal of Finnish Studies issues The Making of Finland: The Era of the Grand Duchy (2018) and Bittersweet: Everyday Life and Nostalgia for the 1950s (2016).
