Jason Nice
On leave for Fall 2024
Jason (he/him/his) is a first-generation college graduate who joined the History faculty in 2007 after receiving a PhD in England and teaching for two years in University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. Jason has led Chico State's General Education Committee and Honors Program, and partnered with colleagues in the implementation of a new Ethnic Studies requirement, and a revised General Education Pathways Program and Honors Program that centers student success and equity. In 2018, Jason was recognized as Chico State's Outstanding Teacher, and in 2021 received the Conversations on Diversity and Inclusion's Behind the Scenes Award.
Research
Jason is a historian of Early Modern Europe, particularly Britain and France. Jason’s current research focuses upon the history of higher education from the Renaissance to the Present, focusing on periods of increased access to universities from hitherto underrepresented groups, and upon the fight to reform general education programs. Recently, Jason has presented at meetings of the American Association of Colleges & Universities, and has produced History as Art, showing his work (opens in new window) (opens in new window)at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, the Chico State Humanities Center, and the 1078 Gallery in Chico. Jason has also published articles in The English Historical Review, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, The Catholic Historical Review, and The Welsh History Review. In 2009 he published Sacred History and National Identity: Comparisons between Early Modern Wales and Brittany.
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