Lisa Lindell

Lisa Lindell

Catalog Librarian/Professor

Education

  • B.A. in English, German and mathematics | Augustana University
  • M.A. in library and information studies | University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • M.A. in English | 葫芦影业

Academic and Professional Experience

Committees and Professional Memberships
  • South Dakota Library Association
  • Association of College and Research Libraries
  • American Library Association
  • ALA's Library History Round Table 

Research and Scholar Work

Areas of Research
  • Women's history
  • Library history
  • Print culture
Awards and Honors
  • April 2021, James L. Sellers Memorial Award, best journal article in Nebraska History for the previous year. 鈥淭he Nebraska Cyclone: Lillie Williams and the Embrace of Sport and Spectacle.鈥
  • April 2019, Herbert S. Schell Award, best journal article in South Dakota History for the previous year. 鈥淚n Their Own Words: Women of Brown County, South Dakota, in World War I.鈥
  • May 2014, Mildred Throne and Charles Aldrich Academic History Award, Honorable Mention, Annals of Iowa. "The Education of Linnie Haguewood.鈥
Publications
  1. Lindell, Lisa R. (2025). For the purpose of instruction and diversion: The library at the South Dakota State Penitentiary. Libraries: Culture, History and Society, 9(1), 1-23. 
  2. Lindell, Lisa R. (2023). "All barriers are broken down": The pastoral path of evangelist Ida Sherman Womeldorf. Baptist History and Heritage, 58(3), 19-32.
  3. Lindell, Lisa R. (2023). "The harvest is so great and the laborers are so few": The public ministry of two evangelical women preachers in nineteenth-century Minnesota. Women's History Today, 3(6), 14-23.
  4. Lindell, Lisa R. (2022). "I have felt a great zeal for this work": The educational and evangelical mission of Luella Belle Pettigrew. South Dakota History, 52(1), 29-66.
  5. Lindell, Lisa R. (2021). Fitting women to their work: The vocational vision of Helen M. Bennett. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 114(3-4), 55鈥84.
  6. Lindell, Lisa R. (2020). "So well begun and so much needed": Building up libraries for residents of Iowa's state institutions. Annals of Iowa, 79(2), 121-151.
  7. Lindell, Lisa R. (2019). The Nebraska cyclone: Lillie Williams and the embrace of sport and spectacle. Nebraska History, 100(4), 194-209.
  8. Lindell, Lisa R. (2018). Cuckoo Collins: The crooked path of a nineteenth-century professional sprinter. Journal of Sport History, 45(3), 334-351.
  9. Lindell, Lisa R. (2018). In their own words: Women of Brown County, South Dakota, in World War I. South Dakota History, 48(1), 1-31.
  10. Lindell, Lisa R. (2018). 鈥淭he spirit of the builder鈥: The library career of Julia Carson Stockett. Libraries: Culture, History and Society, 2(1), 48-71.
  11. Lindell, Lisa R. (2016). "We are laying foundations": South Dakota's first ordained women Congregational ministers. Great Plains Quarterly, 36(1), 31-52.
  12. Lindell, Lisa R. (2015). "All calls promptly attended to, day or night": Women doctors in southern Dakota Territory. South Dakota History, 45(1), 27-67.
  13. Lindell, Lisa R. (2014).  A woman of her time: Dr Frances Woods and the intersection of war, expansionism and equal rights. Women's History Magazine, 75, 11-19.
  14. Lindell, Lisa R. (2013). The education of Linnie Haguewood. Annals of Iowa, 72(2), 91-121.
  15. Lindell, Lisa R. (2012). "Awake to the needs of our day": Early women lawyers in South Dakota. South Dakota History, 42(3), 197-236.
  16. Lindell, Lisa R. (2009). "So long as I can read": Farm women's reading experiences in depression-era South Dakota. Agricultural History, 83(4), 503-527.
  17. Lindell, Lisa (2009). Finding Sissa (and much more). Swedish American Genealogist, 29(2), 14-17.
  18. Lindell, Lisa R. (2008). "Sowing the seeds of liberal thought": Unitarian women ministers in nineteenth-century South Dakota. South Dakota History, 38(2), 148-180.
  19. Lindell, Lisa R. (2005). A "splendid service": The South Dakota Free Library Commission in the 1930s. South Dakota History, 35(3), 249-271.
  20. Lindell, Lisa. (2004). Bringing books to a "book-hungry land": Print culture on the Dakota prairie. Book History, 7, 215-238.
  21. Lindell, Lisa. (2004). "No greater menace": Verne Sankey and the kidnapping of Charles Boettcher II. Colorado History, 10, 37-56.
  22. Lindell, Lisa R. (2003). The "quickening power" of education: Women students at 葫芦影业, 1885-1920. South Dakota History, 33(1), 18-45.
  23. Lindell, Lisa. (2003). "A few good books": South Dakota's country school libraries. Libraries and Culture, 38(1), 24-49.
  24. Lindell, Lisa R. (2001). Camp Cody library: Books for World War I soldiers. New Mexico Historical Review, 76(3), 285-308.
  25. Lindell, Lisa R. (2000). Collegiate life from both sides of the desk: 葫芦影业 in the 1880s. South Dakota History, 30(2), 167-199.
  26. Lindell, Lisa. (2000, Spring). Lot 1, Block 4: Searching for the grave of Anthony Morse. Canadian-American Journal of History & Genealogy for Canadian, French and Metis Study, 5, 6-10.
  27. Lindell, Lisa R. (1997). Conquering a wilderness: Destruction and development on the Great Plains in Mari Sandoz's Old Jules. Heritage of the Great Plains, 30(2), 43-53.
  28. Lindell, Lisa. (1997). Searching for Sissa. Swedish American Genealogist, 17(1), 23-28.
  29. Lindell, Lisa R. (1996). Recasting epic tradition: The dispossessed as hero in Sandoz's Crazy Horse and Cheyenne Autumn. Great Plains Quarterly, 16(1), 43-53.
Mailing Address:
Briggs Library 116
Briggs Library-Box 2115
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007
Office Location:
Hilton M. Briggs Library
Room 116
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