Biography - Alexandra Kindell

My name is Alexandra Kindell, and I have been teaching the U.S. History survey for APUS since 2009. I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in History from California State University, Fullerton, and I have a doctorate from Iowa State University in History. There I specialized in agricultural/rural history including the West and the environment as well as women’s history and U.S. twentieth-century history. I have taught at several brick and mortar universities during the last seven years, usually at state schools with many first-generation college students. Thus I am quite familiar with the needs of students who have busy home and work lives to contend with while going to school. In addition to my part-time teaching in Indiana and online with APUS, I work on various editing projects and care for my two-year-old daughter. I have published several entries in various encyclopedias, and I currently have an article under review with a scholarly journal. My biggest project, however, is an encyclopedia to be published by ABC-Clio in the next year or two. I am co-editing this project, and it covers the topic of populism in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Because I spend much of my life in a chair grading or reading, I enjoy outdoor activities from riding my road bike on my own to just going to the park with my daughter. Mostly I consider teaching to be my mission, and I spend my time building as many relationships as I can in the classroom as I facilitate a greater knowledge of our nation’s past.

 
 

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