Regional Research Associates
Minneapolis MN
Project and Publication Management
in
Upper Midwest Studies
Regional Research Associates was founded in 1993 to respond
to clients'
need to better understand the unique
region of the Upper Midwest in the United
States through its history, sociology, and community
and demographic
changes.
Deborah
Morse-Kahn is a public historian, preservation consultant
and
photojournalist
who has written extensively about people and place in the Upper
Midwest. She
holds a masters degree in American Regional Studies, and brings the
skills of
archaeology, sociology, collections management, interpretive exhibit
design, and archival training into her daily work. Best known
locally for
her first book, Edina:
Chapters in the
City History (1998), she has an archaeology specialization in rock
art and
effigy mound culture in the Upper Midwest, and authored A Guide to the
Archaeology Parks of the Upper Midwest in 2003.
Ms.
Morse-Kahn is a specialist in American ethnic and religious
communities, with
particular attention to the Amish and other ‘plain peoples,’ consulting
frequently with Wisconsin state and county agencies and first
responders on
working with this special religious population. She co-authored Born Amish, a
study of the lives of
women in Amish culture, which won an Iowa Book Award in 2004, and was
a national media consultant on
the
events of the Nickel Mines tragedy in 2006.
Her
commitment to historic preservation and conservation issues has earned
her consulting opportunities with small and large collections through
the region, and
appointment to the Minneapolis
Heritage Preservation Commission. Her ninth
book, Lake
Superior’s Historic North
Shore: A Guide,was published in 2008 by the Minnesota
Historical Society to promote and protect one of Minnesota’s most
treasured
heritage districts, and was subsequently nominated for the Minnesota Book Awards (2008) and
the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards (2009). The
Nine Mile Creek Watershed District: Preserving Heritage & Environment
has just been released (April 2009) to acclaim for its new model of
promoting the work of a conservation agency while connecting the reader
to the significant ways in which we have changed the land we live on. A
new guidebook, The
St. Croix Historic Riverway: A Guide will be released by the Minnesota Historical Society Press in 2010.
Ms. Morse-Kahn lives and works in the
historic Minneapolis community of
Linden
Hills.
Regional
Research Associates
(612) 925-0749
dmk@regionalresearch.net
