Lauren Nickas
Entered Notre Dame: Fall 2007
Profile
B.A. Middle Tennessee State University
M.A. Middle Tennessee State University
M.A. Thesis, "American Moral Discourse, Tobacco Use, and Hollywood, 1940-1975."
Interests: U.S. religious and architectural history, cultural landscapes, urban development, Southern history, history of morality
Advisor: Mark Noll
Recent Publications:
"Conceiving Happiness: Frances Wright and the Nashoba Experiment." West Tennessee Historical Society Papers (2007).
Assistant Editor, Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. (revised online edition), Ed. Carroll Van West. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007.
Book review: Gillespie, Michele and Randal L. Hall, Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America. Tennessee Historical Quarterly.
Contact: lnickas@nd.edu