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Spring 2009 Office Hours
Thursdays: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Michelle Nickerson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she teaches U.S. women’s and gender history. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 2003 and recently completed a year-long fellowship at the Huntington Library. Her research focuses on the formation of conservative female political consciousness in the mid-twentieth century. She studies the gender ideology of the American right and examines women’s participation in the post-World-War II anti-communist movement. Nickerson’s forthcoming book, Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2008.
View her Curriculum Vitae (Word Doc)
Areas of Specialization:
Women’s and Gender History, 20th Century United States, Post-1945 American Political History, American Conservatism
Education:
Ph.D. American Studies, Yale University in 2003
B.A. Rutgers University, 1994
Publications:
Books
Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey (forthcoming, 2010)
Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place and Region in the American South and Southwest, Co-editor, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Penn. (forthcoming, 2011)
Articles/Essays
“Politically Desperate Housewives of Los Angeles County: Conservative Women Activists and the Postwar Right in Southern California,” California History (forthcoming, June 2009)
“The Power of a Morally Indignant Woman:” Republican Women and the Making of California Conservatism,” by Michelle Nickerson in The Journal of the West 42, no. 3, pp. 35-43, 2003
“Women, Domesticity and Postwar Conservatism,” by Michelle Nickerson in The OAH Magazine of History 17, no. 2 (2003), pp. 17-21,
“The Lunatic Fringe Strikes Back: Conservative Opposition to the Alaska Mental Health Bill of 1956,” by Michelle Nickerson in The Politics of Healing: Essays on the History of Alternative Medicine, ed. Robert D. Johnston (New York: Routledge), (2004), pp. 117-130.
“Moral Mothers and Goldwater Girls,” by Michelle Nickerson in The Conservative Sixties, eds. David Farber and Jeff Roche (New York: Peter Lang), pp. 51-62, 2003, reprinted in Women, Families and Communities Vol. II, eds. Nancy Hewitt and Kirsten Delegard (New York: Longman, 2nd edition, 2007), pp. 213-226.
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