Alicia Barber
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2003
Office: Mack Social Sciences, MSS 215
Phone: (775) 784-6124
Email: barber@unr.edu
Alicia Barber completed a Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003 and is now a Visiting Assistant Professor in the history department. Her dissertation focused on the relationship between civic reputation, urban development, and tourism in Reno. Her research and teaching interests include American history and literature, tourism, urban studies, memory and place, Nevada and the American West, and public history.
Dr. Barber is involved in a number of organizations and activities that aim to bring history to broader audiences and to strengthen the link between UNR and the surrounding community. She has served on the City of Reno's Historical Resources Commission since 2004 and joined the Board of Directors of Preserve Nevada, a statewide historic preservation advocacy group, the following year. She appears regularly in public forums and media broadcasts as an expert on history and cultural tourism in Northern Nevada and writes a regular column on local history for RENO magazine.
Courses:
- HIST 101: U.S. History to 1865
- HIST 102: U.S. History since 1865
- HIST 217: Nevada History
- HIST 309: Museum Studies
- HIST 315: The Trans-Mississippi West – The American West in Popular Culture
- HIST 417C/617C (Capstone): West As National Experience
- HIST 483/683: Studies in Urban History – The American City Since 1850
- HIST 487/687: Topics in American Studies – Tourism in America
- HIST 487/687: Topics in American Studies – Introduction to Public History
- CH 203: The American Experience