Dr. Paul Hillmer

College of Arts & Sciences

Dr. Paul Hillmer
Associate Professor, History Department

Office#: AD 200
Phone: 651-641-8215
Fax: 651-659-0207
hillmer@csp.edu 

Links:
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Hmong Oral History Project

Class Pages:
HIS-111: Western Civilizations

HIS-212: Introduction to History

HIS-331: Religion in American Culture

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History Department

Paul Hillmer is an associate professor of American history at CSP.  He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota on 11 April, 2001.   He wrote his dissertation on various progressive movements in Cleveland, Ohio .  

His commissioned history,  The Cleveland YMCA:  Reflections on 150 Years of Service to the Community, was published by Herwell Press in 2004.   He was then recruited by the Minneapolis YMCA to write a 140-year history of their youth development programs.  The resulting book, Breaking New Ground, Building Strong Lives, was published in 2006. 

More recently he has turned his attention to his long-shelved Hmong Oral History Project, started in 2001, with the invaluable assistance and leadership of Tou Thao, Peter Vang, Mai Neng Vang, and Youa Vang. He was awarded a "Save Our History" grant by the History Channel in 2006, and used it to create a six-part documentary ("From Strangers to Neighbors") examining the Hmong people and their resettlement in St. Paul, MN.  He is currently writing a book based on the nearly 200 interviews he and his students have collected.  The as-yet untitled work will be published by the Minnesota Historical Society.