Kim E. Nielsen

Kim E. Nielsen is professor of history and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She has published multiple books and articles, advised several film documentaries, and won numerous academic and teaching awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Stipend and a Fulbright Scholar Award to the University of Iceland. Her newest book is Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller (2009).

Lecture topics:

• "We Please God Better with Useful Deeds": Helen Keller's Social Activism
• Historical Thinking and Disability History
• Beyond the Miracle Worker: Anne Sullivan Macy

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