Annette Atkins

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

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.