Barbara Young Welke

History; Law
Twin Cities

Award Year
2013
University Award
Distinguished McKnight University Professors
Section A

, Location 13

Law and the conditions of freedom in everyday life

In her twenty years at the University of Minnesota, graduate and professional teaching, advising, and mentoring have been central to Professor Welke’s mission. Through the Program in Law and History, leadership of the Hurst Institute, and other initiatives, she has made the University of Minnesota a premier institution for the training of legal historians, and as Director of Graduate Studies she made programmatic changes that left a lasting positive legacy for History Ph.D. students.