Faculty

Alexandra M. Nickliss, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D., University of California at Davis
• M.A., San Jose State University

Areas of Interest

• Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century U.S. Women's History
• Women's History
• Women and Power
• Progressivism
• The West
• United States History Survey and Critical Thinking Twentieth Century

Current Courses

• History 1: Twentieth Century United States History
• History 12A: United States Women's History from Pre-history to the 1880's
• History 12B: United States Women's History from 1880's to the present
• History 17A: United States History from Native Americans to 1877
• History 17B: United States History from 1877 to the Present

Publications

• "Phoebe Apperson Hearst's Gospel of Wealth, 1883-1901," Pacific Historical Review (forthcoming)
• "Where There's a Will, There's a Way": Phoebe Apperson Hearst and the Path to Power (tentative title; book manuscript in progress).

Awards and Achievements

• Organization of American Historians, Membership Committee.
• Western Association of Women Historians, Chair, Founders' Dissertation Fellowship Committee.
• Commission on the Status of Women, San Francisco.
• Chair, Committee on the Status of Women, Academic Senate, Community College of San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
• Lecturer, San Francisco State University, Department of History, San Francisco, California.
• Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society, Omega Chapter, Award for Excellent Teaching as voted by the students of City College of San Francisco.