Migration, Modernity, and Meaning: Studies of Sweden and America, Essays in Honor of Dag Blanck, is a compilation of 46 essays by 49 contributors in honor of longtime Society Board member and academic Dag Blanck. The book, or festschrift, honors Blanck’s contributions to the field of North American studies in Sweden and Swedish Studies in North America over his long career. Due to the breadth of Dag’s research interests, the book also serves as a survey of the current state of the academic field.

Blanck has been Director of the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center and Augustana Honorary Professor of Swedish-American Studies at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. In Sweden, Blanck has been Professor of North American Studies and the director of the Swedish Institute for North American Studies at Uppsala University. He has been a member of the Publications Committee at SAHS since 1987 and started his terms as a member of the Board of Directors in 1990.

While projects such as this one always celebrate their recipient in glowing terms, it is no exaggeration to state that our friend and colleague’s contribution to the field of Swedish American Studies is among the most significant in the contemporary field.