Caitlin Sackrison is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Norwegian at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. She specializes in immigration history, Norwegian history, early modern and modern European history, women in history, and gender and sexuality studies. 

Caitlin completed her Masters Degree and Ph.D. in History at Brandeis University, and her dissertation focused on Norwegian immigrant women homesteaders in Minnesota in the aftermath of the US-Dakota War of 1862. Her early interest in women's history and migration history stemmed from her experiences as an undergraduate at Colgate University, where she wrote her honors thesis on women revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries in the French Revolution. For her Master's Thesis on Europe in the interwar period (between World War I and World War II), she wrote about how women's fashion trends, as seen in prominent fashion magazines, highlighted changes in women's societal roles within and beyond the home. In most of her work, she explores how women are part of cultural and societal shifts, often through migration and immigration history.