Michelle Nickerson
	Title:	Assistant Professor
	Office:	Crown Center 544
	Phone:	773-508-2228
	E-mail:	mnickerson@luc.edu

Personal Information

Degree:

B.A. Rutgers University, Majors: History and German
Ph.D. Yale University, American Studies

Specialization: 

U.S. Women’s and Gender History, 20th Century Political and Urban History, American Conservatism

Research Interests:

·         social movements
·         suburban/metropolitan history
·         dynamics of place, space, and region
·         the Sunbelt
·         sexual, reproductive, and familial politics
·         history of parenthood and parenting styles in America

Publications:

Books:
Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right (Princeton University Press, 
forthcoming Spring 2012)

Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region (University of Pennsylvania Press,
co-editor, Spring 2011)

Articles:
"Politically Desperate Housewives: Women and Conservatism in Postwar Los Angeles,”
CaliforniaHistory 86: 3 (June 2009), 4-21.

"The Power of a Morally Indignant Woman:” Republican Women and the Making of California
Conservatism,” The Journal of the West 42: 3 (2003), 35-43.

“Women, Domesticity and Postwar Conservatism,” by Michelle Nickerson in The OAH Magazine of
History 17: 2 (2003), 17-21.

Essays in Edited Volumes:
“The Lunatic Fringe Strikes Back: Conservative Opposition to the Alaska Mental Health Bill of 1956,”
in The Politics of Healing: Essays on the History of Alternative Medicine, ed. Robert D. Johnston
(New York: Routledge, 2004), 117-130.

“Moral Mothers and Goldwater Girls,” in The Conservative Sixties, eds. David Farber and Jeff Roche
(New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 51-62, reprinted in    Women, Families and Communities Vol. II, eds.
Nancy Hewitt and Kirsten Delegard (New York: Longman, 2nd edition, 2007), 213-226.