He is currently a guest researcher for the academic year ‘25-’26 at the University of Oslo in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation, and History (IAKH), where he is researching sacred groves and shipbuilding in late Iron Age Scandinavia. Dr. Connors is also an Affiliate Instructor at the University of Washington, where he created and produced an outreach podcast, Crossing North, from 2019-2025 for the Department of Scandinavian Studies. He received his PhD in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021. Read his publications.