History

University of Minnesota

Dr. Schultz teaches U.S. cultural history, including courses on the history of American women, immigration and ethnicity, family and childhood, public history, and film. Outside of history, she has taught American Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Gateway Colloquium.  She has also periodically taught a May Term travel course to Ireland, emphasizing the famine and migration history. Dr. Schultz has served as Director of General Education, Director of American Studies, Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Chair of History.

In 1995, her book Ethnicity on Parade: Inventing Norwegian-American Identity through Celebration appeared. Her other publications include work on ethnic women and the suffrage movement; an analysis of Irish-American and African-American domestic servants from the 1840s to the 1920s in relation to ethnicity and race in American culture; and filmic representations of family and childhood pre-World War II. She is most currently working on a project about children of the families who lived at Split Rock Lighthouse on Lake Superior from 1910-1940 and the public history focused on these children at the Lighthouse Museum.