Congratulations to Dr. Samira Saramo

The Department of History is pleased to announce that alumna Samira Saramo (MA 2007 and HBA 2006) successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on 2 September. Her dissertation completed in the Department of History at York University explores the everyday life and personal experiences of Finnish North American immigrants in 1930s Soviet Karelia. She situates Karelian experiences in the contexts of Canadian and American immigrant backgrounds and the Soviet culture and structure that they became entangled within.

Dr. Saramo will be teaching for the department this fall a third year seminar on "Immigrant Experiences through Letters." More information about her research can be found by clicking here.