Pamela riney-kehrberg biography

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Pamela Riney-Kehrberg is a professor and the chair of the department of history at Iowa State University.

She lives in Ames, Iowa, and has been a member since 2011.

Alma maters: BA, Colorado College; MA and PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Fields of interest: I am broadly interested in the rural and agricultural history of the United States, as well as the history of childhood and the family.

When did you first develop an interest in history?

I first became interested in history as a child.

My family was full of great storytellers, and I spent a lot of time at my grandmother’s kitchen table, listening to family lore. I also became interested by way of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little