Faculty
Nickerson, Michelle
Assistant Professor , HIST
Office: JO 5.426
Phone: 972-883-2063
Email: michelle.nickerson@utdallas.edu
Areas of Specialization: Women’s and Gender History, 20th Century United States, Post-1945 American Political History, American Conservatism
Education: PhD, American Studies, Yale University, 2003
BA, Rutgers University, 1994
Spring 2010 Office Hours: Wed. 4-5, Thurs. 4-5
Michelle Nickerson teaches U.S. women's, gender, and political history to undergraduate and graduate students. She received her B.A. from Rutgers University and her PhD from Yale University. Nickerson's forthcoming "Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right" will be published by Princeton University Press in the Spring of 2011. Her work examines the formation of conservative female political consciousness in mid-twentieth century America and the impact of grassroots activism on the post-World-War-II American right. She is particularly interested in political history from the bottom up--how conservative thought, concerns, discourse, and action originates from the fabric of everyday lives. This research has been published in three edited volumes and two journals. Nickerson is also interested in the dramatic mid-century patterns of migration, economic growth, demographic change, and metropolitan development that shifted political power from the Northeast to the West and South, which she explores in her work on the Sunbelt. She is co-editing a volume of essays called "Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Place, Space, and Region in the American South and Southwest."
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