Associations

Valour Canada is a not-for-profit that teaches Canadians about their military history. Dr. Sotvedt serves on its board.

The organization focuses on youth. Its active program takes the subject into classrooms across Alberta and Ontario. It also hosts educational events for adults, including lectures and battlefield tours.

To make Canadian history easy to reach, Valour Canada runs a website of published material on Canada's part in hundreds of years of global history.

Find out more about Valour Canada here: valourcanada.ca

The Second World War Research Group is an international network of scholars who research the war and its surrounding period. It hosts conferences, workshops and seminars, and gives scholars of all levels a place to share research and discuss it.

Dr. Sotvedt is an active participant, particularly in the North America chapter. The chapter runs a monthly reading group that gives members feedback on works in progress.

She also contributed to the group's latest collaborative publication, Shots in the Dark: Experimentation, Success and Failure in the Second World War.

Find out more about the group here: swwresearch.com

The Society for Military History is a long-established home for people who study war. It began in 1933 as the American Military History Foundation, became the American Military Institute in 1939, and has carried its current name since 1990. It has more than 3,200 members, from university scholars to soldiers and interested citizens.

That mix keeps the work honest. A paper is questioned by academics, veterans and curious readers alike, and the Society's Journal of Military History is a trusted place for new scholarship to be reviewed and debated.

Dr. Sotvedt has presented at the Society's annual meetings since 2018. She joined the Shots in the Dark roundtable at the 92nd annual meeting in March 2026 and reviewed for the Journal of Military History in 2025.

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The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal) carry the lineage of the wartime 7th Reconnaissance Regiment (17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars). The regiment was the last Canadian cavalry unit to give up its horses, in 1939. In 1944 its soldiers landed on Juno Beach on D-Day, and it went on to win eleven battle honours in Northwest Europe.

The regiment's association keeps that history and its people connected. The Association made Dr. Sotvedt an honourary member in recognition of her contributions to understanding the unit's history. That is a mark of trust from the people who know the regiment best.

In May 2025 she joined the Association's weeklong battlefield tour of the Scheldt estuary, leading discussion at several sites and giving the group its historical background.

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