Michelle Nickerson, Ph.D. School of Arts and Humanities
Assistant Professor of History
Dr. Nickerson studies the history of the American conservative movement through the eyes of women. Her research has documented the rise of the Cold War Right through the grass-roots efforts of women activists, without which, she says, the movement would never have been as strong.
She is the author of a forthcoming book, Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right, and co-editor of a forthcoming volume of essays, Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Place, Space and Region in the American South and Southwest. She also has written on postwar gender roles, women in the Republican Party, and right-wing political activism and its impact on American history.
Nickerson, a recipient of a prestigious Huntington Fellowship, received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University.
Updated: December 11, 2009
