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Kathleen Cairns

Kathleen CairnsCalifornia; Media; Women’s History
E-mail: kcairns@calpoly.edu
Office: Bldg. 47, 25D
Phone: (805)765-2543

 

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. University of California, Davis (1995)

  • B.A. (1976), M.A. (1989) History, California State University, Long Beach

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

  • California

  • Depression era (California and U.S.)

  • Crime

  • Media

  • Women

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS 

 

Conference papers, 2007-08:

  • “Murder Most Feminine,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, June 2008, Minneapolis, MN

  • “Woman to Woman, Class, Conflict and the Tehachapi Prison Experience in California.” Western Association of Women Historians, San Diego, May.

  • “Writing for their Lives, ‘The Clarion’ and Female Inmates at the California Institution for Women, Tehachapi.” Western History Association, Oklahoma City, OK, October.

Books:

Articles:

  • “Writing for Their Lives,” Western Legal History (Fall, 2008).

  • “Enigma Woman: Nellie Madison, Femme Fatales and Noir Fiction,” Montana, the Magazine of Western History (Spring 2004).            

ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Western Association of Women Historians

  • Western History Association

COURSES

  • HIST 208 – California History

  • HIST 322 – Twentieth Century America

  • HIST 435 – Women’s History

  • HIST 440 – Special Topics