Adam Hjorthén is Associate Professor of history and Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the Swedish Institute for North American Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden. He specializes in studies of twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. cultural memory and transatlantic relations, and is author of Cross-Border Commemorations: Celebrating Swedish Settlement in America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018), and co-editor of Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). A PhD in history from Stockholm University, he has been a visiting scholar at the JFKI/Free University of Berlin, George Washington University, and the University of Minnesota.