UND French professor, author, editorial assistant for North Dakota Quarterly, chronicler of North Dakota’s image

Wilkins, Wynona (1916-2021)

Wynona Huchette Wilkins, a native of western Pennsylvania, attended West Virginia University, and holds a M.A. degree in history from Indiana University. She taught at the University of Oklahoma from 1962-1963, and in the Tunisian program of the United States Peace Corps in 1963. From 1964-1967 she taught French and European history at the Ironton Center of Ohio University. In 1967, she became a member of the UND Language Department and taught French.

Wynona and her husband, Dr. Robert Wilkins, professor of history, co-authored God Giveth the Increase: The History of the Episcopal Church in North Dakota (1959) and North Dakota: A Bicentennial History (1977). She has also written several articles, including "The Idea of North Dakota" (contained in this collection), which appeared in 1971 in the North Dakota Quarterly, a journal which she helped her husband edit.

Wynona Wilkins retired from the University of North Dakota on May 15, 1987. She died in Grand Forks on December 23, 2021.

University of North Dakota - Faculty
Women's History

Wynonna Wilkins Papers; OGLMC 1296