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Kean University

Education

  • Ph.D., Drew University
  • M.Phil., Drew University
  • M.A., University College, Dublin
  • B.A., University College, Dublin

 

Areas of Expertise

  • American History
  • Irish History
  • Jewish Studies
  • Women's History 
  • Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Courses Taught

  • Worlds of History
  • US History to 1865
  • Ireland 1801-Present
  • Europe Since 1870
  • Women’s History
  • Labor History
  • History of Religion in America
  • The American West
  • America in the 1920’s
  • America in the 1960’s
  • History of Israel
  • Middle East History
  • Senior Seminar
  • Graduate Research Seminar in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Biography

A Professor of History at Kean University, Nicholson received her Ph. D. from Drew University. She is the author of Emma Goldman: Still Dangerous (Black Rose Press, 2010) and has edited Conflicts in the Early American Republic (Manly Publishers, 2010). In 2017 Emma Goldman: Still Dangerous was published in Turkish. 

She was the recipient of the Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Kean in 2010, and was inducted into the Kean Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi; in 2011 she was appointed a Fellow of the Kean University Center for History, Politics and Policy.

Nicholson has also produced history documentaries: The Black Eagle of Harlem, George Washington: The Farewell AddressWashington Irving: An American Original, and Ken Forsse: Come Dream With Me Tonight. Her research interests include social and cultural history, and at present she is working on a project which includes Alexander Hamilton’s link with the Kean family. Beginning Fall 2018, Dr. Nicholson will be the serving as the Director of the Holocaust and Genocide Program, and Jewish Studies Program at Kean.