Jason Nice
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, and he is writing a book under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. The book - A History of Resistance to University Curriculum Reform: From the Renaissance through the Present (forthcoming in 2027) - argues that particularly ferocious episodes of resistance to curriculum reform are driven in part by anxieties caused by changing demographics of the student body. Jason also produces History as Art, showing his work 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.