{"id":1564,"date":"2020-07-07T16:42:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T21:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=1564"},"modified":"2020-09-29T12:29:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:29:22","slug":"michelle-nickerson","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/michelle-nickerson\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Nickerson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Michelle Nickerson is associate professor of history at Loyola University of Chicago. \u00a0She teaches the history of American politics, women and gender, cities, and religion. \u00a0Nickerson is NOT from the Sunbelt. \u00a0She was born and raised in New Jersey, where she got her undergraduate degree at Rutgers University. \u00a0She moved to the Sunbelt after she received her Ph.D. at Yale in American Studies, first to do research in Los Angeles, and then in Dallas, where she taught at the University of Texas at Dallas. \u00a0Nickerson\u2019s first book was a volume of essays she co-edited,\u00a0<em>Sunbelt Rising: \u00a0The Politics of Space, Place, and Region<\/em>. \u00a0This project grew out of her research and highly regarded book on women and right-wing politics:\u00a0<em>Mothers of Conservatism: \u00a0Women and the Rise of the Postwar Right<\/em>. \u00a0That book examines how activist women in Los Angeles shaped American conservatism. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1720,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-1564","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Associate Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago","speaker_last_name":"Nickerson","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1564\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}