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Kathleen Cairns
California; Media; Women’s History
E-mail: kcairns@calpoly.edu
Office: Bldg. 47, 25D
Phone: (805)765-2543
EDUCATION
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Ph.D. University of California, Davis (1995)
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B.A. (1976), M.A. (1989) History, California State University, Long Beach
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
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California
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Depression era (California and U.S.)
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Crime
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Media
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Women
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Conference papers, 2007-08:
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“Murder Most Feminine,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, June 2008, Minneapolis, MN
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“Woman to Woman, Class, Conflict and the Tehachapi Prison Experience in California.” Western Association of Women Historians, San Diego, May.
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“Writing for their Lives, ‘The Clarion’ and Female Inmates at the California Institution for Women, Tehachapi.” Western History Association, Oklahoma City, OK, October.
Books:
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The Enigma Woman: The Death Penalty of Nellie May Madison, University of Nebraska Press (May 2007)
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Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950, University of Nebraska Press (May 2003)
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Hard Times: The History of the California Institution for Women, Tehachapi, 1933-1952. Forthcoming, University of New Mexico Press.
Articles:
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“Writing for Their Lives,” Western Legal History (Fall, 2008).
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“Enigma Woman: Nellie Madison, Femme Fatales and Noir Fiction,” Montana, the Magazine of Western History (Spring 2004).
ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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Western Association of Women Historians
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Western History Association
COURSES
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HIST 208 – California History
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HIST 322 – Twentieth Century America
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HIST 435 – Women’s History
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HIST 440 – Special Topics
