Nichole Sanders, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History (Latin American History)Director, M.A. in History
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. - Southwest Texas State University
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 currently working on a project exploring the links between gender and the creation of the Mexican welfare state during the years 1937-1958. 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, Welfare and the ‘Mexican Miracle:’ The Politics of Modernization in Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1937-1958, Penn State University Press (under contract).
- Maternalism Reconsidered: Social Welfare in Twentieth Century History, co-editor, with Rebecca Plant, Lori Weintrob and Marian Van der Klein; Berghahn Books, forthcoming.
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).
- "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,”
- “Protecting Mothers in Order to Protect Children: The Seventh Pan-American Child Congress and the Latin American ‘Civilizing Mission.’” Eds. Rebecca Plant, Nichole Sanders, Marian Van der Klein, and Lori Weintrob. Maternalism Reconsidered: Social Welfare in Twentieth Century History, Berghahn Books, forthcoming.
Professional Associations
American Historical Association
Conference of Latin American Historians
Latin American Studies Association