History Department

Annette Atkins

Contact Information:

Office: Quad 359A
Phone: (320) 363-2138
Email: aatkins@csbsju.edu

Place of Birth:

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Education:

BA - Southwest State University (Marshall, MN)
MA - Indiana University
PhD - Indiana University

Academic Interests:

local and regional history
19th c. U.S.
public history

Courses Taught:

HIST 152: American Experience
HIST 200: History Colloquium
HIST 350: Early America
HIST 366: Minnesota Regional History
HIST 395: Historiography & Methods

Story:

I came to St. John's/St. Ben's on a one-year appointment in 1980 and am happily still here. I have remained interested in teaching throughout all of these years, especially when I can balance it with scholarly research and writing.

Hobbies:

traveling
reading
textiles

Publications:

Fall 2007 Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out (from Minnesota Historical Society Press) which is a new history of the state as well as a rethinking of what state history is and ought to be. A version of one chapter, "The State I'm In: Garrison Keillor, Hubert Humphrey, and Me" will appear in the fall issue of the Western Historical Quarterly.