Lindsay Elizabeth Doran

Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu. MA attained in Transnational and Comparative History. Studying with a major focus on modern Europe, and hold minors in Public History and Comparative Indigenous History. Currently specializing in modern Finnish and North American Indigenous history, and conducting a research project designed to explore the role of state paternalism within the development of Indigenous boarding school policy.

Of secondary research interest are the concepts of Indigenous American communities intersecting with Finnish immigrants in the Great Lakes Region of the United States during the twentieth century. Doran examines the idea of perception and cultural stereotyping in relation to the Ojibwe and Finnish communities, and how these perceptions may have traveled from the United States to Finland today.