Participant Info
- First Name
- Rachael
- Last Name
- Hanel
- Country
- United States
- State
- MN Minnesota
- rachael.hanel@mnsu.edu
- Affiliation
- Minnesota State University Mankato
- Website URL
- www.rachaelhanel.me
- Keywords
- 1970s, women's activism, radicalism, United States, Symbionese Liberation Army, Patty Hearst, domestic terrorism, media, newspapers, journalism
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am an assistant professor of Mass Media and director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. I am writing a narrative biography of Camilla Hall, a Minnesota native and a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army who was killed by Los Angeles police on May 17, 1974. The biography stems from my master’s thesis, which was a study of 1960s and 1970s radical groups in the United States.
I have a bachelor’s degree in journalism and spent seven years as a reporter and copy editor for a daily newspaper in Minnesota. My memoir, We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter, was published in 2013 by the University of Minnesota Press and was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award.
I have a Ph.D. in Creative Writing (creative nonfiction) from Bath Spa University, Bath, United Kingdom.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Rachael18
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Rebellion & Revolution
