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Elizabeth White Nelson, Ph.D.
Office: Wright Hall, A 326
Phone: (702) 895-3218
Email: elizabeth.nelson@unlv.edu
Website: Elizabeth White Nelson, Ph.D.
- U.S. Cultural
- 19th-Century Popular Culture
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Antebellum America
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Elizabeth White Nelson is Associate Professor of History
and Graduate Coordinator. She is a graduate of Bryn
Mawr College and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in American
Studies from Yale University (1995).
Since coming to UNLV in 1996, she has taught courses
in American history on the National Period, the Civil War
and Reconstruction, Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture
and graduate courses on nineteenth-century cultural and
intellectual history and cultural theory. She is
the author of Market Sentiments: Middle-Class Market
Culture in 19th-Century America (Smithsonian Books,
2004) and articles on nineteenth-century American culture
as well as a contributor to Burton J. Bledstein and Robert
D. Johnston, eds. The Middling Sorts: Explorations
in the History of the American Middle Class (Routledge,
2000). She is currently working on the relationship between
political economy, domestic economy and national identity
in the antebellum United States.
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