Faculty Profile

Associate Professor of European and World History
Office: TR 254
Phone: 973-765-8475
Email: darolson@iu.edu

Ph.D. in Historical Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2006
MA in History, University of North Dakota, 1993
BA in History, Minor Scandinavian Studies, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 1986

Vikings across the Atlantic: Emigration and the Building of a Greater Norway, 1860-1945. University of Minnesota Press (2013).
“A Shared Affinity for Democracy: Norwegian and American Voices in the United States, 1933-1945.” Chapter 15 in Transatlantic Crossings: Nordic Experiences of Emigration and Democracy, 1925-1945 (Forthcoming, Oslo: University of Oslo, Experiencing American Democracy (ExAm) Project, 2025).
“Two Very Different Sides of the Same Coin: Nordmanns-Forbundet during World War II” Norwegian-American Essays 2024 (Oslo, Norway: Novus Press, forthcoming, 2024).
“Norwegian-American Lutheran Religious Identity during World War II” Norwegian-American Essays 2020 (Oslo, Norway: Novus Press, 2020): 189-207.
Terje M. Hasle Joranger and Daron W. Olson, “Those Distant Wars: Norwegian-American Attitudes towards Poles and Finns, 1939-40” Norwegian-American Studies 38 (2020): 15-51.
“His Mother’s Song: The Ethnolandscapes of Norwegian-American Male Visitors to Norway during the 1914 Eidsvoll Centennial” Norwegian-American Essays 2017 (Oslo, Norway: Novus Press, 2017):133-157.