Steven Hahn
Associate Professor of History
American Studies, American Conversations,
American Racial and Multicultural Studies,
Ph.D. Emory University, 2000.
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hahn@stolaf.edu


Professor Hahn was born in the city of Flint, Michigan (famous for Michael Moore of Roger & Me) and grew up in the nearby town of Grand Blanc (famous for nothing in particular except that it hosts an annual PGA event and is roughly the size of Northfield, Minnesota.) After graduating from high school, Professor Hahn attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, earning a degree in Anthropology and a life-long devotion to that university's sports teams. Upon graduation, he worked for two years as a field archaeologist for a large engineering firm on the east coast. Having had enough of rocks, potsherds, shovels, trowels, and dirt, he returned to school to study history at the University of Georgia and Emory University, where he earned his doctoral degree in May 2000.

Professor Hahn came to St. Olaf College in 2000, just after completing his doctoral studies. A specialist in American colonial and Native American history, in any given semester Professor Hahn can be found teaching courses in early U.S., American colonial, American Revolutionary, and Native American history. Professor Hahn has also taught courses in American studies and will begin teaching in the American Conversations program in 2003. A fan of American popular culture, professor Hahn also has teaching interests in the areas of film and American popular music.

Dr. Hahn's primary research interest is the history of Native American peoples of the American south, a subject about which he has published several scholarly articles. Hahn is also putting the finishing touches on his first book, The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763, which will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in the upcoming year. In it, he explores the internal and external political history of the Muskogee (Creek) Indians in the era prior to the French and Indian War. Professor Hahn is also the author of a new introduction to a classic work in his field, Verner Crane's The Southern Frontier (1929), soon to be re-released by the University of Alabama Press in 2003.

When not attending to his professorial duties, Hahn is best known as daddy to his two children Erin (6) and Luke (3), and his wife Mary, a practicing attorney here in Northfield. Professor Hahn is also an avid ice hockey player, serving occasionally as the volunteer goalie coach for the St. Olaf men's varsity team and as netminder for the vaunted Northfield old guys leagues.

Professor Hahn is also a part-time, semi-professional Elvis impersonator!