Participant Info
- First Name
- Casey
- Last Name
- Nichols
- Country
- United States
- State
- TX Texas
- cdn47@txstate.edu
- Affiliation
- Texas State University
- Website URL
- https://www.caseydnicholsphd.com
- Keywords
- Black history, Chicanx history, urban history, comparative race and ethnicity, California and the West, Social Justice history, 20th Century United States
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Texas State University. Before arriving as Texas State in 2019, I taught at CSU, East Bay, CSU, Long Beach, and Dickinson College. As a historian, I specialize in the areas of African American history, Mexican American history, U.S. urban history, and movements for social justice. My current book project, Poverty Rebels: Black and Brown Protest in Post-Civil Rights America, examines post-1965 antipoverty policy with a specific focus on how these polices shaped the relationship between African Americans and Mexican Americans in Los Angeles and brought new significance to black/brown relations as U.S. racial paradigm. I have received several honors, including a Liberal Arts Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, Moody Research Grant from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Foundation, and research fellowship from the Huntington Library. In the classroom, I am deeply invested in connecting history to social justice and teaching US history from the perspective of diverse actors.
- Recent Publications
“The Magna Carta to Liberate Our Cities: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and the Model Cities Program in Los Angeles,” Pacific Historical Review. (Forthcoming, Summer 2021)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @DrCDNichols
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Government, Local & Regional, Politics, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Urban History
