Education
- Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
- M.A., University of Notre Dame
- M.A., Northern Arizona University
- B.A., Grand Valley State University
Research Interests
- U.S. West
- 20th-21st Century U.S.
- Community/Neighborhood History
- Gentrification
- Public and Digital History
Courses
- Public History Internship and Capstone Courses
- Introduction to Public History
- Twentieth-Century U.S. History
- Historical GIS
- Oral History and Latinx/Mexican American in Civil Rights
- Public History in the Digital Age
- Public Space: Monuments and Memory
Biography
Lindsey Wieck is an Associate Professor of History at St. Mary’s University and has been the Director of the Master of Arts in Public History program since 2017. She received her Ph.D. in American History from the University of Notre Dame in 2016. Wieck integrates public and digital humanities methods into her work including oral history, GIS mapping, text analysis and data visualizations into her research. She is writing a book manuscript on how Latino art and journalism impact community formation and activism efforts in the Mission District of San Francisco. She also specializes in the history of the American West, race and ethnicity, and American cities. She regularly incorporates digital technologies and public history methods in her teaching.
Publications
Articles and Book Chapters
Jenny Hay and Lindsey Wieck, “San Antonio Storyscapes: Student Storytelling Partnerships,” in Routledge Companion to Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship, edited by Daniel Fisher-Livne and Michelle May-Curry, (Routledge, 2024).
Lindsey Wieck and Rebecca Wingo, “The Great Syllabus Swap,” Teaching Public History, edited by Evan Faulkenbury and Julia Brock, (The University of North Carolina Press, 2023).
“Our Mission, No Eviction: Resisting Gentrification in San Francisco,” The North American West in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Brenden Rensink, (University of Nebraska Press, 2022).
“Quote Notes: Empowering Students through Choice and Reflection,” forthcoming article in Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy.
“Upholding Culture and Language in Guadalupe, Arizona: Bilingual Education Activism in the 1970s,” Western Legal History 23 (Winter/Spring 2010): 47-85.
Manuscripts in Progress
On a Mission: Making Latino Space through Art and Activism. Manuscript under contract with University of Nebraska Press.
Public Engagement and Digital Projects
Graduate & undergraduate students in Wieck’s oral history class collected interviews from members of the San Antonio advocacy organization COPS/Metro Alliance (Communities Organized for Public Service).
Wieck built this site with Law Fellows, graduate students researching the history of the St. Mary’s School of Law, and Dr. Jerry Poyo, with support from St. Mary’s School of Law.
Wieck has worked on various iterations of this site with graduate students to showcase graduate and undergraduate public history capstone projects and course projects.
St. Mary’s Oral History Collection – MACRI (site in progress)
Wieck worked with students to create a collection of approximately 30 oral histories on topics of Mexican American and Latinx Civil Rights that we are in the process of donating to the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI).
Rattlers Remember
In 2019, Wieck, along with her undergraduate public history class, created Rattlers Remember to showcase oral histories they collected and place-based narratives they had written. This project has continued with undergraduate and graduate students contributing to the site.
Pedagogy Playground
In 2019, Wieck launched Pedagogy Playground, where she curates resources to facilitate innovative pedagogy and student engagement in higher education. It also helps educators build a toolbox of teaching methods while facilitating joyful experimentation in the classroom.
Old Spanish Trail Association Records
In 2019-2020, Wieck worked with undergraduate and graduate students to digitize the Old Spanish Trail Association archival collection in the Blume Library. She guided students in scanning the collection with CZUR overhead scanners and generating metadata in an Airtable spreadsheet. Wieck also built a digital repository on DSpace that links to this publicly-accessible Omeka-S site.
In Fall 2020 and 2021, Wieck worked with graduate and undergraduate students to create an archive documenting life at St. Mary’s and in San Antonio. Students submitted items to the COVID-19 Journal of the Plague Year archive and produced digital exhibits featured here.
Since 2020, St. Mary’s University faculty (including Wieck and Dr. Jerry Poyo) and students began partnering with the National Association of Latino Community Asset Builders to collect oral histories and preserve primary sources related to Latino community development throughout the U.S.
Wieck’s Digital History courses (HS 7310) in Spring 2020 and 2021 partnered with the City of San Antonio’s Office of Historic Preservation. They worked with the OHP’s ScoutSA team and the City’s database of historic sites, including landmarks and districts, to complete original research featured on this site.
In this ArcGIS Storymap, graduate student Victoria Villaseñor and Wieck shared their research on the 1921 flood that devastated San Antonio’s Westside. This project is part of the Westside Humanities Project.
The Old Spanish Trail Auto Highway, an ArcGIS StoryMap (October 2020)
The Old Spanish Trail Auto Highway in 1929, an ArcGIS StoryMap (September 2020)
Digital Publications
“From Downtown to the Mission in Three Minutes: Latino Activism around BART,” published in AHA Perspectives blog and magazine, Oct 17, 2023.
“Revising Historical Writing Using Generative AI,” published in AHA Perspectives blog, Aug 15, 2023
Rebecca Wingo and Lindsey Wieck, “Rocking Digital History in the Public History Classroom,” Perspectives Daily, American Historical Association, July 26, 2021.
“Bleachman says, ‘Clean it with Bleach!’: Education Campaigns for HIV/AIDS Hold Lessons for COVID-19,” Perspectives Daily, American Historical Association, June 22, 2020.
“Blending Local and Spatial History: Using Carto to Create Maps in the History Classroom,” Blog Post, American Historical Association #DigHist Blog Series, September 25, 2017.
“BART’s Plans for the Mission: Tacos, Towers, and Miniature Vehicles,” Historical Essay, FoundSF.org, October 2016.
“Creating Gay Spaces: Spaces of Social and Sexual Freedom,” Historical Essay, FoundSF.org, October 2016.