Matthew Lindaman

Biography

Professor Lindaman comes from an extended family that is deeply involved in education at both the K-12 and university levels. A former high school teacher in German language and social studies, Matthew has worked with pre-service social science/history students at Winona State over the past decade. Promoting work in history education, he was the lead investigator in Blufflands and Prairies: Southern Minnesota’s Place in the Fabric of American History, a one-million-dollar Teaching American History grant sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. From 2006-2010, he served as the academic advisor for the grant, partnering Winona State’s department of history with the Southeast and Southwest Service Cooperatives and the Minnesota Historical Society to organize over fifty teacher workshops to explore Minnesota history through the theme of a sense of place.   

Research Interest

Immigration history, World War I, World War II, Environmental history.