Spotlight Oral History

Contact: Dr. Kim Heikkila (Owner and President)

Year Established: 2016

Specialties: Historians, Historians, Oral

Training/Experience: PhD, American Studies (minor Feminist Studies), University of Minnesota, 2002; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on teaching the Vietnam War, 2005; Columbia University Oral History Summer Institute, 2000.

Notes: Oral history project development, consultation, training; oral history interviews; historical research, writing, public speaking. I taught college-level US history for 12 years, training more than 200 students to conduct oral history interviews. I have delivered over 50 presentations on topics including oral history, women Vietnam veterans, and the Salvation Army’s Booth Memorial Hospital. My work has earned recognition from the Oral History Association, MN Historical Society, Minnesota Book Awards, St. Catherine University, the National Women’s Studies Assoc, PEO, and Woodrow Wilson Fdn

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