J. Dee Kille

Letter of Appointment Faculty

Ph.D., History, University of Nevada, Reno, 2008

Office: MSS 200
Phone: (775) 682-8994
Email: jdk@unr.nevada.edu

Dee Kille completed her Ph.D. in Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History at the University of Nevada, Reno in 2008. Her dissertation focused on the creation and disintegration of mining culture in Goldfield, Nevada between 1906 and 1908. Her research interests include Nevada history, Labor history in the United States, Socialism, and Radicalism.

Dr. Kille is a member of the Nevada State Historical Society, the Western History Association, and the Labor and Working Class History Association. She has written for the Nevada State Historical Society Quarterly and written book reviews for various quarterlies. Her Masters’ thesis, Academic Freedom Imperiled: The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada, was published by the University of Nevada Press in 2004.

Courses:

• HIST 101: U.S. History to 1865
  • Advice for Historical Readings
  • Guidelines for Writing Good Papers
• Hist 102: U.S. History since 1865
  
• Hist 217: Nevada History
  
• Hist 417A/617A: Nevada and the West