HistoryLUC's video: Michelle Nickerson on Mothers of Conservatism

Assistant Professor of History Prof. Michelle Nickerson recently published Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right (Princeton, 2012), an investigation of the housewives and mothers who shaped grassroots conservatism in 1950s California. A graduate of Rutgers and Yale Universities, Prof. Nickerson joined the History Department in the fall 2011 after teaching five years at the University of Texas, Dallas. She is currently is an Assistant Professor of History and teaches courses in American women, gender, urban and twentieth-century history, focusing on the political and social movements in the twentieth-century United States. She is currently writing a book on the "Camden 28" and the antiwar movement in the 1960s and 1970. The addition of Prof. Nickerson to the faculty complements the History department's strength in urban, women and gender history. For more information about: Undergraduate Course Offerings in Women and Gender History http://www.luc.edu/history/Catalogue_of_Courses.shtml Graduate Course Offerings in Women and Gender History http://www.luc.edu/history/graduate/grad_catalog_course_descriptions.shtml