Dr. Kyle Ciani
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Biography
Professor Ciani specializes in the histories of women and gender across the Americas, with a focus on social justice issues. She is a Core Faculty member for the Women's & Gender Studies (WGS) program and is a mentor for ISU's Women's Mentoring Network, FLAME (Feminist Led Activist Movement to Empower), Triota (WGS Honors Society), and History Majors in the Honors Program. Ciani is involved with efforts by museum professionals to diversify exhibition spaces, such as through the National Women's History Museum and the National Woman's Party at the Belmont-Paul National Monument. Her book, Choosing to Care: One Hundred Years of Childcare and Social Reform in San Diego, 1850-1950 is forthcoming in Spring 2019 from the University of Nebraska Press.
Current Courses
202Advanced Honors Seminar: Interdisciplinary Investigations
261History of Women in the United States to 1865
299Honors Independent Study
499Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
287Independent Study
400Independent Study
291Undergraduate Teaching Experience In History
Research Interests & Areas
How the changing culture of work in transborder communities directed childcare strategies and policy formation. Her current research project is a study of educational developments in the mid-twentieth century on American Indian reservations in the southwest.
Ph D History of Women & Gender
MA History
BA History
Impact Award
David A. Strand Diversity Achievement Award
Undergraduate Education Award
University Teaching Initiative Award
Herbert C. & Mary Jackson Award
Institute of History Award
Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
Kyle Ciani, "San Diego Zoo, San DIego, California," in American Tourism: Constructing a National Tradition, J. Mark Souther and Nicholas Dagen Bloom, eds. (Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), 227-236.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Kyle E. Ciani, “A ‘Growing Evil’ or ‘Inventive Genius’: Anglo Perceptions of Indian Life in San Diego, 1850-1900,” Southern California Quarterly, 89:3 (Fall 2007): 249-284.
Kyle E. Ciani, “Hidden Laborers: Female Day Workers in Detroit, 1870-1920,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 4:1 (January 2005): 23-51.
Kyle E. Ciani, “Revelations of a Reformer: Helen D. Marston Beardsley and Progressive Activism,” Journal of San Diego History 50:1/2 (Summer/Fall 2004): 102-123.
Kyle E. Ciani, “The Power of Maternal Love: Negotiating a Child’s Care in Progressive-era San Diego,” Journal of the West 41:4 (Fall 2002): 71-79.
Kyle E. Ciani and Cynthia B. Malinick, “From Spanish Romance to Neon Confidence and Demolition Fear: The Twentieth-Century Life of the El Cortez Hotel,” Journal of San Diego History 46:1 (Winter 2000): 3-33.
Kyle E. Ciani, “Training Young Women in the ‘Service’ of Motherhood: Early Childhood Education at Detroit’s Merrill-Palmer School, 1920-1940,” Michigan Historical Review 24:1 (Spring 1998): 103-132.
Presentations
Paradoxes of the Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Failures and Successes https://www.archivesfoundation.org/event/equal-rights-amendment-yesterday-today/
Kyle E. Ciani, “Reserved Space: Public Education in Post-World War II Navajo Communities,” Society for the History of Children & Youth, Biennial Conference, University of Nottingham, England, June 2013.
Kyle E. Ciani, “Motherhood Revisted: Maternalism in the Next Generation,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 2011.
Kyle E. Ciani, “The National Woman’s Party and Political Rhetoric: Visual Propaganda in the Battle for the Vote,” for the National Archives & Records Administration and Sewall-Belmont House & Museum commemoration of Women’s Equality Day, William G. McGowan Theater, Washington, D.C., August 2011.