Rate My Professor Lindsey Wieck

Lindsey Passenger Wieck is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, where she has served since 2017. She also directs the Master of Arts in Public History program. Wieck earned her Ph.D. in American History from the University of Notre Dame in 2016, with additional M.A. degrees from Notre Dame and Northern Arizona University, and a B.A. from Grand Valley State University. Following her doctorate, she held a postdoctoral fellowship in the College of Arts and Letters at Notre Dame from 2016 to 2017. Her research specializes in the history of the American West, race and ethnicity, American cities, community and neighborhood history, gentrification, public history, and digital history. Wieck integrates methods such as oral history, GIS mapping, text analysis, and data visualizations into her scholarship and teaching.

Wieck is authoring a book manuscript titled On a Mission: Making Latino Space through Art and Activism, under contract with the University of Nebraska Press, which explores how Latino art and journalism shaped community formation and activism in San Francisco's Mission District amid gentrification pressures. Her peer-reviewed publications include "San Antonio StoryScapes: Student Storytelling Partnerships" with Jenny Hay in the Routledge Companion to Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship (2024), "The Great Syllabus Swap" with Rebecca Wingo in Teaching Public History (2023), "Our Mission, No Eviction: Resisting Gentrification in San Francisco" in The North American West in the Twenty-First Century (2022), "Quote Notes: Empowering Students through Choice and Reflection" in Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy (2020), and "Upholding Culture and Language in Guadalupe, Arizona: Bilingual Education Activism in the 1970s" in Western Legal History (2010). She has contributed digital essays to the American Historical Association's Perspectives on History, such as "From Downtown to the Mission in Three Minutes: Latino Activism around BART" (2023) and "Revising Historical Writing Using Generative AI" (2023), along with numerous book reviews. Wieck has received awards including the Faculty Conference Fund Award from St. Mary's University (2019), Graduate Student Award from the Western History Association (2015), and various research grants from Notre Dame. She has presented at conferences including the Western History Association and National Council on Public History. Wieck leads student-driven public history initiatives, such as the COPS/Metro Alliance Oral History Collection, St. Mary's School of Law History site, Rattlers Remember oral history project, Pedagogy Playground resource site, Old Spanish Trail Association digital archive, #CoverYourFangs COVID-19 archive, and San Antonio StoryScapes.