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Dr. Nichole Sanders

Dr. Nikki SandersSchool of Humanities and Social Sciences
Associate Professor of History (Latin American History)
Director, M.A. in History
500 Westwood
434.544.8117
sanders.n@lynchburg.edu

Experience/Background

  • Fall 2009 - present: Associate Professor of History, Lynchburg College
  • Fall 2003-2009: Assistant Professor of History, Lynchburg College
  • Fall 1996-Spring 2003: Instructor, History, University of California, Irvine

Degrees and Certifications

  • University of California, Irvine
    Ph.D. in Latin American history with graduate feminist emphasis, 2003.
  • Texas State University San Marcos
    Master of Arts in history, August 1996
  • University of Texas, Austin
    Bachelor of Arts in history, minor in Spanish, May 1992

Professional/Research Interests

I am interested in issues of gender, political legitimacy, state formation, and economic development, not just in Mexico but all over Latin America. Here at LC, I teach world civilizations, as well as the survey of Latin American history.

Academic Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

Virginia Federation for Independent Colleges

  • Mednick Fellowship, 2007.

Conference on Latin American History

  • Lewis-Hanke Prize: best proposal for research to transform a dissertation into a book, 2005.

Lynchburg College

  • Faculty Development Grant for Summer Research, 2004.

UC Mexus/CONACYT Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2003-2004 academica year. (declined)

Publications

Books
  • Gender and Welfare in Mexico: The Consolidation of a Postrevolutionary State (1937-1958), Penn State University Press (forthcoming, Oct. 2011).
  • Maternalism Reconsidered: Social Welfare in Twentieth Century History, Co-editor, with Rebecca Plant, Lori Weintrob and Marian Van der Klein; Berghahn Books, (under contract).

Published Articles

  • "Gender and Welfare Reform in Mexico: The Construction of a Postrevolutionary State," Gender and History, 20:1 (2008).
  • “Blood, Sex and Power: A Learning Community,” (co-authored with Sabita Manian) Journal of Women’s History, 17:4 (December 2005).
Essays, Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries

  • "Protecting Mothers in Order to Protect Children: The Seventh Pan-American Child Congress and the Latin American 'Civilizing Mission.'" in eds. Rebecca Plant, Nichole Sanders, Marian Van der Klein and Lori Weintrob Maternalism Reconsidered: Social Welfare in Twentieth Century History, Berghahn Books, (under contract).

  • "Mothering Mexico: The Historiography of Mothers and Motherhood in Twentieth-Century Mexico," History Compass, Vol. 7, (2009)
  • “Improving Mothers: Poverty, the Family, and ‘Modern’ Social Assistance in Mexico, 1937-1950,” in eds. Patience Schell and Stephanie Mitchell The Women’s Revolution: Women and Womanhood in Mexico, 1910-1953, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
  • Encyclopedia of Social Welfare in North America, eds. John Herrick and Paul Stuart, Sage Publications, December, 2004
    • “Twentieth-century Mexican Welfare Institutions”
    • “Mother and Family Programs in Twentieth-Century Mexico,”

Professional Associations

  • American Historical Association
  • Conference of Latin American Historians
  • Latin American Studies Association