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Christopher Crocker

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Christopher Crocker
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Historian.

Christopher Crocker was born in Newfoundland and earned his PhD from the University of Iceland in Icelandic and Comparative Cultural studies. He has worked as an instructor at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg. His research has been published in several journals and in numerous edited collections. He is the co-editor of Cultural Legacies of Old Norse Literature (Boydell & Brewer, 2022) and was awarded the Canadian Historical Association's 2021 Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism article prize for his article “What We Talk about When We Talk about Vínland: History, Whiteness, Indigenous Erasure, and the Early Norse Presence in Newfoundland.”

His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

The North American-Icelandic Children's Newspaper Sólskin: Culture, Identity, and Community
Prairie History, Number 11, Summer 2023

Page revised: 22 June 2023

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