Kriste Lindenmeyer is an associate professor of American History at Tennessee Technological University. After a nine year career as a department store buyer, she returned to college and completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Cincinnati in 1991. Her revised dissertation "A Right to Childhood": The U.S. Children's Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-1946 (University of Illinois Press 1997). Her research and teaching interests focus on the history of U.S. public policy, health, immigration, and women and gender.

She is also very interested in instructional technology and notes that H-Net has been her window to the world of technological possibilities.