Poet, environmentalist, and oral historian Joe Paddock grew up in Litchfield, Minnesota, and was educated at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of the poetry collections Earth Tongues (1985) and Handful of Thunder: A Prairie Cycle (1983) and the essay collection Soil and Survival: Land Stewardship and the Future of American Agricultur...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Paddock, Joe
Created:
2014-05-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Johanna Kandl is an Austrian painter. Her work seeks to expose myths of religiosity, historical constructions, capitalism, to distort them to the point, as it is neatly put, that they become recognisable.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kandl, Johanna
Created:
2014-08-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
John Akre is an animator, videomaker and teaching artist who lives in Minneapolis. He creates public animation work with his animation station and a variety of other animation techniques, makes video documentaries, and empowers youth to create media. His films have shown at festivals around the planet.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Akre, John
Created:
2015-09-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
John Bohannon talks to Peter Shea about his work as science correspondent for the journal Science, and his organization of the Dance Your Ph. D. contest.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bohannon, John
Created:
2010-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
John Jodzio‘s work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney’s, and One Story. He’s the author of the short story collections Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home and the forthcoming Knockout (Soft Skull Press, Spring 2016).
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jodzio, John
Created:
2015-09-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg talks to Peter Shea about her current project, inspired by visits with her daughter to the Como conservatory. John Reimringer talks to Peter Shea about the sensibilities of his students and the screenplay of his novel Vestments. Together they talk about their past year of parenting.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2013-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg talks to Peter Shea about her most recent book, An Alphabet Not Unlike the World, and John thinks aloud about his changing reasons for writing and motivation to undertake writing projects. Both reflect on the changes in their lives and their writing since they became parents.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2012-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg, poet and creative non-fiction writer, and John Reimringer, novelist, are annual guests on the Bat;their interviews chart their adventures as writers and teachers -- and, now, parents.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2015-08-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg, poet and creative non-fiction writer, and John Reimringer, novelist, are annual guests on the Bat;their interviews chart their adventures as writers and teachers -- and, now, parents.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Reimringer, John; Vandenberg, Katrina
Created:
2011-05-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Trained as both a fine art photographer and as a geologist, Jonathon Wells describes his work as an embodiment of his commitment to "fostering dialog about human interaction with the earth through surface/subsurface photo-geologic composites." His process of creating these photo-geologic composites is both an artistic and investigatory process.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wells, Jonathon
Created:
2015-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This oral history session with former Swede Hollow residents took place at Metropolitan State University on October 28, 1995, organized by the Friends of Swede Hollow.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sanchelli, Joseph; Sanchelli, Michael
Created:
1995-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Josephine Lee talks to Peter Shea about her interest in plays, touching on Samuel Beckett and Modern Theater, and about conveying many cultural perspectives to students through literature.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Lee, Josephine
Created:
2009-10-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Joyce Lyon and Howard Oransky talks to Peter Shea about an installation they curated together at the Katherine E. Nash and T. R. Anderson Galleries in the Wilson Library, "The House We Built: Feminist Art Then and Now". They present many of the installation's pieces, and talk about some of the artists, themes and organizations that originated, s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Lyon, Joyce; Oransky, Howard
Created:
2013-02-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Joyce Lyon and Howard Oransky talk to Peter Shea about the origins of the women's art movement in Minnesota, then Joyce Lyon and grad student Christina Michelon talk about a collection of ephemera recalling the same.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Lyon, Joyce; Michelon, Christina; Oransky, Howard
Created:
2013-02-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Joyce Lyon talks to Peter Shea about her upbringing, finding her Polish and Jewish identity, and her beliefs about the viewer's experience of art and public art.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Lyon, Joyce
Created:
2012-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Jürgen Kocka is Permanent Fellow at re:work International Research Center. The center investigates the history of relations between work and life course, between the images of work and the images of the life course;between rules guiding work and labour on the one hand, and the patterns which structure the life course and its phases on...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kocka, Jürgen
Created:
2014-10-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Juanita Garciagodoy was born and raised bilingual, binational, and bicultural in Mexico City by a father from Guadalajara, Jalisco, and a mother from farm country in southwestern Minnesota. After college at Macalester in St. Paul, and a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard, she taught literature, philosophy, and civics at a bilingua...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Garciagodoy, Juanita
Created:
2006-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and the Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership at California State Sacramento. His current research includes quantitatively and qualitatively examining how high-stakes testing and accountability-based reforms and market reforms impact urban minority ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Heilig, Julian Vasquez
Created:
2015-09-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Julie Landsman, author of A White Teacher Talks About Race, taught in the Minneapolis public schools for 25 years and blogs on the TC Daily Planet. In this interview, she talks to Peter Shea about her writing and how she came to write about racism and her students. She explains how her primary pursuits in later life have moved away from direct i...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Landsman, Julie
Created:
2014-03-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Julie Schumacher talks to Peter Shea about the development of her interest in words and writing, and how she arrived at short story writing and fiction.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Schumacher, Julie
Created:
2009-11-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Juliet Schor talks to Peter Shea about her early intellectual formation, her growing dissatisfaction with conventional economics, and her decision to write for a general audience (as well as an academic audience).ÔøΩ She also talks about connections between activism and the academy.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Schor, Juliet
Created:
2010-10-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Juliette Cherbuliez talks to Peter Shea about her interests in French Early Modern literature, the Medea myth, and stories of murder carried out by women, and how they frame our evaluations of violence. She also speaks about her educational ideals.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cherbuliez, Juliette
Created:
2009-03-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Justine DiFiore, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about how she came to consider herself an artist. She exhibits a portrait of photographer Wing Young Huie she produced at the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University. She discusses her affinity for portraiture and what she considers valuable and authentic in her work. Sh...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
DiFiore, Justine; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kairn Klieman talks to Peter Shea about her use of comparative linguistic research to reconstruct the history of pre-colonial African peoples and ongoing anthropological racism towards indigenous Africans.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Klieman, Kairn
Created:
2007-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer, talks to Peter Shea about her writing, her inspiration, her Hmong identity, and her co-founding of Words Wanted, an agency dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Yang, Kao Kalia
Created:
2008-03-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Karen Campbell talks to Peter Shea about dams, levies, earthquakes, natural disasters, and the uncertainty of human impact upon the earth and environment.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Campbell, Karen
Created:
2011-04-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Karlheinz Essl, composer, computer musician, and improviser talks to Peter Shea. He talks about playing progressive rock and finding the "utopian" concepts of Karlheinz Stockhausen as a teenager, and explains his ideals of musical experience with reference to the ideals of John Cage. He describes how his memories of playing prog rock came back t...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Essl, Karlheinz
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Karl Rogers talks to Peter Shea about the meaning of democracy, its necessity for the survival of humanity, and his involvement with the John Dewey Center for the Study of Democracy in Education.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Rogers, Karl
Created:
2011-11-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kate Brauman is the lead scientist for the Global Water Initiative at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, where she studies the coupled interaction of land-use change and water resources. Kate brings together the study of hydrology and plant-water relations with economics and policy to explore the effects of land cover ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Brauman, Kate
Created:
2015-07-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katharina Hagenhofer is a graduate student in organic agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, studying the mechanisms by which young people acquire land or access to land for farming.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hagenhofer, Katharina
Created:
2014-08-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kat Hayes is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Her research explores issues of agency, negotiation, resistance, and opportunistic power demonstrated by peoples who history once popularly regarded as having been totally powerless in contexts of European colonization, like indigenous communities and enslaved Afric...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hayes, Kat
Created:
2015-02-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kathleen Ryor talks to Peter Shea about her development as an art historian and her work on the Ming dynasty painter Xu Wei. She talks about her recent interest in the connections between the world of the military and the world of the artist in late Ming China. She discusses the ways in which the subject of art history is explicitly interdiscipl...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ryor, Kathleen
Created:
2012-11-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kathryn Jensen talks to Peter Shea about an organization she founded, designed to remove barriers to athletic participation for children with disabilities.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jensen, Kathryn
Created:
2013-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
For over a decade, Kathy Kinzig was executive director of Eco Education, a Minnesota nonprofit offering an array of experiential, environmental education programs that inspire students to improve their academic performance, civic engagement and environmental stewardship. She passed away in 2008.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kinzig, Kathy
Created:
2006-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katrina Vandenberg, professor and author, talks to Peter Shea about her latest work. She discusses the book inspired by a trip to the zoo with her daughter Anna, as well as reading an excerpt from it. John Reimringer, professor and author, talks to Peter Shea about his motivation for writing. Reimringer talks about the necessity of pushing one's...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Vandenberg, Katrina; Reimringer, John
Created:
2014-07-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ken Meter talks to Peter Shea about the problems of the inner city and rural areas: both are sites where people work hard but economies are set up so resources are extracted from those areas. Meter argues that inner cities and rural areas are becoming an American Third World.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Meter, Ken
Created:
2012-09-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristian Petersen, Professor of Religion, talks to Peter Shea about his academic path to studying Islam in China and Sino-Islamic intellectual history. He recalls his early exposure to Daoism and Sufism, their bearing on his personal life, and his influential instructors. He discribes his interest in how perceptions of religious traditions are c...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Petersen, Kristian
Created:
2013-09-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristi Belcamino is a Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Award-nominated author of four crime fiction books, a newspaper cops reporter, and an Italian mama who makes a tasty biscotti. Her first novel, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD, was inspired by her dealings with a serial killer during her life as a Bay Area crime reporter. Belcamino has written and reported...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Belcamino, Kristi
Created:
2016-02-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristin Anderson, actor and writer, talks to Peter Shea about her play, Hitler, Satan, and Me: A Love Story, presented at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival. She talks about the experience which led her into Catholic seminary and Lutheran ministry, and the exorcisms and demonologies which inform her play. She discusses her marriage and her resea...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Anderson, Kristin
Created:
2013-08-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristin Hoelsher-Schacker, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about her family, her early interest in art and theater, and her choice of fiber as a medium. She discusses her involvement in the 2013 Women's Art Institute at St. Kate's University, and exhibits three pieces she produced while at the Institute. She thinks about the futur...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hoelsher-Schacker, Kristin; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Larry Johnson is a storyteller, educator, and business owner who has managed outdoor education programs, directed CCTV and community cable operations, and produced numerous radio and TV shows, mainly around issues and local storytellers. He started the "teller-friendly" participatory patient TV channel at Mpls. Children’s Hospital in the mid 7...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Johnson, Larry
Created:
2015-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Larry Millett is a journalist and author. He is the former architectural critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the author of several books on the history of architecture in Minnesota. He has also written a series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries set in the United States and Minnesota in the 1890s.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Millett, Larry
Created:
2014-03-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Laura Bridget Regan talks to Peter Shea about discovering herself as a musician. She talks about writing, adolescence, Bipolar Disorder, and her move from her home in Boston to New York.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Regan, Laura Bridget
Created:
2012-08-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Laurie Green talks to Peter Shea about the research that went into her book, "Battling the ‘Plantation Mentality’: Race, Gender and Freedom in Memphis during the Civil Rights Era".
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Green, Laurie
Created:
2011-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Lawrence Venuti talks to Peter Shea about how he came to be a translator, the role that translation plays in world literature, the invisibility of the translator, translation and difference, and the pedagogy of translation.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Venuti, Lawrence
Created:
2011-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
LeAnn Holland talks to Peter Shea about adult development in light of her experience as an avid hiker and outdoors enthusiast, and about moving away from the omnipresence of chairs.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Holland, LeAnn
Created:
2013-02-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski, playwright, talks to Peter Shea about her upcoming work on a TV miniseries based on the research that went into her prior play, The People's Temple, about the Jonestown massacre. She stresses faithfulness to history, the public domain, and interviews, and her direct involvement as screenwriter. She considers how to work with t...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2014-05-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Fondakowski compares her plays, including Casa Cushman and The People's Temple, talking about some differing approaches to oral history research, and offers her thoughts on the beginning of writing her play Spill.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2011-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski talks to Peter Shea about some ethical questions that arise when writing plays based on real events using oral history interviews with real people.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2008-02-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leigh Fondakowski talks to Peter Shea about her play, The Laramie Project, predicated upon the tenth anniversary of the killing of Matthew Shepard, and the oral history research that went into it.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2010-04-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leonard Marcus talks to Peter Shea about his forthcoming book on Madeleine, L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time and many other children's fantasy novels, his recently published Annotated Phantom Tollbooth, and his work on the illustrator Randolph Caldecott.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marcus, Leonard
Created:
2012-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Leonard Marcus talks to Peter Shea about the children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, and how her books have been regarded. He also deals with Ursula Nordstrom, and his general approach to writing.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Marcus, Leonard
Created:
2009-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Linda Gammel and Sandra Menefee Taylor talk to Peter Shea about their collaborative project Roots of Renewal, taking oral histories dealing with citywide food systems, and its manifestation in the WARM Gallery.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gammel, Linda; Taylor, Sandra Menefee
Created:
2013-02-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Linda Levin, artist, talks to Peter Shea and Patricia Olson about the origins of her artmaking and her involvement in the 2011 and 2013 Women's Art Institutes, the latter at St. Kate's University. She identifies a need in the art world for more recognition of women's work. She exhibits four pieces she produced at the 2013 Institute which draw fr...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Levin, Linda; Olson, Patricia
Created:
2013-07-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Lisa Channer talks to Peter Shea about the importance of collaboration to her work as an artist and director. She also talks about pedagogy and the pleasures of teaching. In the final segmnents of the interview she talks about current directions in the American theater.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Channer, Lisa
Created:
2013-01-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the University of Minnesota Libraries’ Children’s Literature Research Collections. In this interview, she talks about "Rejoice the Legacy!", the exhibit she curated for the Kerlan Collection centered around the work of Andrea Davis Pinkney.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Von Drasek, Lisa
Created:
2014-04-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Louis Jenkins, poet, talks to Peter Shea about his work. As an Okalahoma transplant who settled in Duluth, Jenkins' work was deeply influenced by Minnestoa culture and landscape. His connections with other Minnesotan artists and poets have allowed him to take part in numerous meaningful collaboratives. Jenkins discusses his upbringing in Oklamho...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jenkins, Louis
Created:
2014-04-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Madelon Sprengnether talks to Peter Shea about two recent projects, a memoir and a book of prose poems, the process of choosing and developing a written form, and the power of films.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sprengnether, Madelon
Created:
2006-11-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Mageen Caines talks to Peter Shea about the force that shaped her–teachers, librarians, parents, friends. A student, veteran, mother, activist, and thinker currently enrolled in the school of public health at the University of Minnesota, she discusses her experiences in the military and her work with veterans.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Caines, Mageen
Created:
2012-11-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
