Faculty

Kim Nielsen, Professor

Kim Nielsen

Education: B.A., Macalester; M.A., Ph.D., Iowa.

Emphases: 19th and 20th century U.S. history; U.S. women's history, right-wing women, history of disability

Office: MAC A320

Phone: 920.465.2487

E-mail: nielsenk@uwgb.edu

Blog: http://blog.uwgb.edu/nielsenk/?page_id=2

 

Publications:

  • Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009).
  • Advisory Editor, (Editor in Chief Susan Burch), Encyclopedia of American Disability History (New York: Facts on File, 2009).
  • Helen Keller: Selected Writings. (New York University Press, 2005)
  • The Radical Lives of Helen Keller (New York University Press, 2004 (paperback 2009))
  • Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism and the First Red Scare (Ohio State University Press, 2001)

Grants & Awards:

  • Organization of American Historians, Distinguished Lecturer
  • 2009 Founders Association Award for Excellence in Scholarship
  • Winner of the 2007 A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize of the Southern Association of Women Historians for “The Southern Ties of Helen Keller,” Journal of Southern History LXXIII, No. 4 (November 2007): 783-806.
  • 2005 Founders Association Award for Teaching Excellence
  • 2005 Organization of American Historians/Japanese Association of American Studies Japanese Residency Award
  • 2005 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Stipend
  • UWGB Woman of the Year 2004
  • Minnesota Historical Society Research Grant
  • Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Research Grant
  • Fulbright Teaching Scholars Award