Kirsten Delegard

Kirsten Delegard is one of the co-founders of the Mapping Prejudice Project at the Borchert Map Library at the University of Minnesota. She also has faculty affiliations with the Geography, Environment and Society Department and the Heritage Studies and Public History Program. She is part of the team that is leading community members in Hennepin County as they build the first comprehensive map of racial covenants for an American city.

Delegard holds a PhD in history from Duke University and is the author of Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) and the co-editor, with Nancy A. Hewitt, of the two-volume textbook Women, Families and Communities: Readings in American History (Longman Publishing, 2008). She was the visual curator for Mary Wingerd’s North Country: The Making of Minnesota (University of Minnesota Press, 2010).