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 & Sexualities Studies (WGSS) program, the History Department's liaison to the Honors Program, and the advisor for the Registered Student Organization, Women's History Club. Ciani is also involved with efforts by museum professionals to diversify exhibition spaces and with better integrating the histories of women and girls into K-12 curricula.<br><br>
135History Of The United States To 1865
135History Of The United States To 1865
261History of Women in the United States To 1865
299Independent Honor Study
490Readings -- Field Of Study
300Senior Seminar In History
135History Of The United States To 1865
Histories of Women & Gender in the Americas; American Family; Women's Activism in the Americas.
In her book, Choosing to Care: One Hundred Years of Childcare and Social Reform in San Diego, 1850-1950 (available through the University of Nebraska Press and Amazon) Ciani assessed 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.
Ciani, Kyle E. Choosing to Care: One Hundred Years of Childcare and Social Reform in San Diego, 1850-1950. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
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.
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, “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.
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.