B.A. (1976), M.A. (1989) History, California State University, Long Beach
Selected Publications and 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
At Home in the World: California Women and the Creation of Modern Environmentalism (in progress)
The Case of Rose Bird: Gender and Politics in the California Courts, University of Nebraska Press (2016).
Proof ofGuilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America, University of Nebraska Press (2013).
Hard Times: The History of the California Institution for Women, Tehachapi, 1933-1952. University of New Mexico Press (2009).
The Enigma Woman: The Death Penalty of Nellie May Madison, University of Nebraska Press (May 2007).
Front-Page Women Journalists, 1920-1950, University of Nebraska Press (May 2003).
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).
