Kirsten Delegard <\/b><\/h2>\n
The Historyapolis Project was started by Kirsten Delegard, a third generation Minneapolitan who is currently a Scholar-in-Residence in the Department of History at Augsburg University.<\/p>\n Kirsten holds a Ph.D. in American history from Duke University where she studied the history of women and politics in the United States. She published\u00a0Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and was also the co-editor, with Nancy A. Hewitt, for the two volume textbook\u00a0Women, Families and Communities: Readings in American History<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Starting in 2006, she developed a new competency in visual research through her work on Mary Lethert Wingerd\u2019s\u00a0North Country: The Making of Minnesota<\/em><\/a>. This experience introduced her to critical regional studies and\u00a0historical image research<\/a>, inspiring her to create the Historyapolis Project.<\/p>\n Kirsten directs the research undertaken by the Historyapolis team. Since April 2013, she has written regular posts for the project on Facebook, Twitter and now the blog associated with this website. During that time she has been a Legacy Research fellow at the Gale Library<\/a> at the Minnesota Historical Society. She has also continued to write for print media, authoring columns for the Southwest Journal<\/em><\/a> as well as a short history of the battle over pornography in Minneapolis that was published in U.S. Women’s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n For more background about the genesis of the Historyapolis Project read “The Future of History” in Augsburg Now<\/em><\/a>. Web Developer and GIS Director<\/p>\n Born and raised in the Twin Cities, Kevin Ehman-Solberg was enticed into Historyapolis after meeting Kirsten Delegard while researching the history of pornography theaters in Minneapolis. He joined the project as a student intern and began contributing research and posts<\/a> in 2014. He is now the Historyapolis web developer and GIS director. Kevin\u00a0is also the project lead on the\u00a0Mapping Prejudice<\/a>\u00a0project, recently featured in the\u00a0Star Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kevin is a graduate of Augsburg University, where he was a double major in English and history. He is currently working towards his M.A. in the\u00a0Geographic Information Science program at the University of Minnesota and is also\u00a0a graduate assistant at\u00a0the\u00a0Borchert Map Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n An active proponent of the \u201cdigital humanities,\u201d Kevin interrogates the intersection of space and historical narrative.<\/a>\u00a0His work on pornography bookstores in Minneapolis <\/a>was recently published in the Middle West Review, <\/em>where he explores the connections between pornography, gay sexual liberation, feminism, and police power. For more on Kevin’s research interests, listen to his interview<\/a> with the Midwestern History Association, or visit his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Michael Lansing is responsible for bringing the Historyapolis Project to Augsburg University. An Associate Professor of History at Augsburg, Michael teaches environmental, political, and public history. He also works to connect Augsburg students and faculty with Historyapolis, in an effort to enhance the history department\u2019s capacity to teach public and digital history. He is animated by a desire to engage the diverse communities of Minneapolis and find stories about the past that matter to everyone. A fan of the\u00a0\u201cMinneapolis Sound\u201d<\/a>\u00a0of the 1980s, Michael has deep family roots in the city’s North Side.<\/p>\n His books include\u00a0Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics<\/em>\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 2015)<\/a>\u00a0and the co-authored\u00a0The American West: A Concise History<\/em>\u00a0(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)<\/a>. His articles have appeared in the\u00a0Western Historical Quarterly<\/em>,\u00a0Environmental History<\/em>, the\u00a0Journal of Historical Geography<\/em>, the\u00a0Middle West Review<\/em>, the\u00a0Utah Historical Quarterly<\/em>, and\u00a0Ethics, Place, and Environment<\/em>.<\/p>\n Michael\u2019s current project is\u00a0The Cradle of Carbohydrates: Minneapolis and the Making of the World\u2019s Food<\/em>, an environmental and urban history of the city\u2019s central role in the creation and propagation of carbohydrate-rich processed and packaged foods.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You are reading these words right now thanks to Christy Mattingly, who is putting the \u201cdigital\u201d in digital humanities for the Historyapolis Project. Christy is an Academic Liaison for Computing who supports the Social Sciences at Augsburg University. She is providing digital support and design for this experiment in history making, which draws on both her experience as a teacher and her ten years as an Information Technology professional. A graduate of Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Christy was raised a Hoosier in the land of 86 lakes. She moved to the Twin Cities eight years ago with her two daughters. She is currently working towards a Master of Arts in Leadership<\/a> and Diversity Certificate at Augsburg as well as participating in a Civic Fellowship organized by the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship<\/a> at Augsburg University. This was the genesis of the\u00a0Mapping Prejudice<\/a>\u00a0project, recently featured in the\u00a0Star Tribune<\/a>. Since retiring as a researcher for a Minneapolis-based historical consultant in 2015, Penny has spent countless hours in the Hennepin County Recorder’s Office where she has identified thousands of deeds encumbered by racial restrictions.<\/p>\n Penny\u00a0has a long-standing interest in the history of \u00a0the Minneapolis central riverfront. Her first book was Hiding in Plain Sight: Minneapolis’ First Neighborhood<\/em><\/a>, which describes the growth of the area around St. Anthony Falls. She also used property records to reconstruct the forgotten world of nineteenth century red-light districts in Minneapolis. She told the story of the powerful women who ran these Mill City establishments in\u00a0Minneapolis Madams:\u00a0The Lost History of Prostitution on the Riverfront\u00a0<\/em><\/a>, which is available from the University of Minnesota Press. A short snippet from this larger work<\/a> was published on Historyapolis in 2014. Caitlin Crowley’s interest in public history was sparked by Michael Lansing’s public history class at Augsburg University, an experience that galvanized her interest in using institutions of cultural heritage to promote racial equity. This passion has led her to join the ACTC Museum Fellows Program at the Minnesota Historical Society and the team at Historyapolis. A senior who is majoring in history and minoring in medieval studies, Caitlin plans to attend graduate school for public history and museum studies. Her goal is to continue learning about how public historians can enrich, engage with, and gain understanding from their communities.
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\n <\/p>\nKevin Ehrman-Solberg\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nMichael J. Lansing<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nChristy Mattingly<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Penny Petersen\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
<\/a>Penny Petersen is one of the leading experts on historic property records in the state of Minnesota. She became involved with Historyapolis after Kirsten Delegard requested instruction on how to find racially-restricted property deeds in Minneapolis. Kirsten was so befuddled by the byzantine organization of property records at the Hennepin County Recorder’s Office that Penny decided it would be easier to do this work herself. She started with the Homewood neighborhood, where activists had long bemoaned the discriminatory barriers erected by restrictive covenants. When her search proved fruitless<\/a>, the Historyapolis team realized the importance of digging into the archive to uncover where and when racial restrictions were placed on property holdings in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
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\n <\/p>\nHistoryapolis Alumni<\/h1>\n
Caitlin Crowley<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\n <\/p>\nNicholas Stewart-Bloch<\/strong><\/h2>\n