ALEXANDRA MARIE NICKLISS
City College of San Francisco
Social Science Department
50 Phelan Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112
415/239-3283
anicklis@ccsf.cc.ca.us

Public Lecture Topics:

  • Phoebe A. Hearst, Politics, and the Limits of Wielding Power at the University of California, 1897-1904, Organization of American Historians Conference
  • The Ways of a Fairy Godmother: Phoebe Apperson Hearst, the YWCA, and Training Women for Leadership, Power, and Politics, 1904-1913, Plenary Session, Western Association of Women Historians, Asilomar, California
  • Panelist on "California Progressivism and 20th Century Politics," California Studies Conference, San Francisco State University
  • Women Philanthropists: Differences and Power in the Progressive Era, Western Association of Women Historians, Asilomar, California
  • Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Academic Excellence at the University of California, 1893-1900, History of Women at the University of California: The First 125 Years, University of California, Berkeley
  • Defining the Self-Made Woman Idea: Phoebe Apperson Hearst, 1872-1890, Organization of American Historians, Washington, D.C.
  • In Search of the California Dream: Female Philanthropy, 1850-1901, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
  • The World of Success American Women Made, 1830-1920, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
  • A model for Success: Phoebe Apperson Hearst, 1850-1901, Western Association of Women Historians Conference, Huntington Library, San Marino, California
  • Female Philanthropists' Use of Power as a Tool of Upward Mobility and Community Activism, Western History Association, Wichita, Kansas

Publications:

  • The Ways of a Fairy Godmother: Phoebe Apperson Hearst, the YWCA, and Training Women for Leadership, Power, and Politics, 1896-1913.
  • Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (forthcoming)
  • Phoebe Apperson Hearst and the New Gospel of Wealth, in revision for Pacific Historical Review

Recommendations:

Books

  • On the Edge of the World: Four Architects in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century by Kenneth H. Cardwell
  • Five California Architects by Esther McCoy
  • California: The Great Exception by Carey McWilliams
  • San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development by William Issel and Robert Cherny
  • The California Progressives by George Mowry
  • Maybeck: Visionary Architect by Sally B. Woodbridge

Alexandra Nickliss has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 01-Feb-2000 .