Michele J. Shover
Professor Emeritus
Office: Butte 710
Telephone: (530) 898-6036
Email: mshover@csuchico.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Tulane University, 1968, in Government
M.A. Tulane University, 1966, in Government
B.A. University of Arizona, 1963, in Government.
Magna Cum Laude. Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Sigma Alpha.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of Political Science
California State University, Chico, 1968
to present
Fields: Political and Legal theory, American
government.
Chair, Department of Political Science,
1977-1983.
United Professors of California (U.P.C.),
A.F.T.: President, Chico Chapter, 1971-1975
RESEARCH, SCHOLARSHIP AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY
"John Bidwell: 'El Patron' and Indian Fighter,
1850-1854." Manuscript in preparation. The Chico Anti-Chinese Crisis
of
1877: The Lemm Ranch Murders, 3
chapter book. Submission to Robert Clarke and Co., Publishers. Seattle.
"John Bidwell and the Indian Treaty of
1852: Seduction, Betrayal, and Redemption," Submitted to California
History.
"Fighting Back: The Chinese in Chico Law
and Politics, 1980-1886," California History (Winter 1996)
Note. The Legal Studies Forum's
editor requested adaptation for republication with them.
"Book Review" The Anti-Chinese Movement
in California by Elmer Sandmeyer. The Pacific Northwest Quarterly,
LXXIV (April 1993).
African-Americans in Chico's Nineteenth
Century: Climbing the Slippery Slope. Chico: Association for Northern
California records and Research, 1992. In recognition of this the Chico
News and Review featured an article "Doing Their Best," January 30, 1992.
Recommended in English 153. 2d edition
"John Bidwell: A Reconsideration,"
Ripples
Along Chico Creek. Chico: A Penwomen Publication, 1992.
Hughes, John N. Iowa Sketches: A Memoir
of Scotch Grove in Nineteenth Century Jones County. Editor: Michele
Shover. Chico: A Penwomen Publication, 1992
Note: Author Barbara Scot acknowledged
this as a valuable source for her memoir, Prairie Reunion, New York:
Farrar, Stauss & Giroux, 1995. Her book was favorably reviewed in the
New York Times in Fall 1995.
"The Blockhead Factor: Marriage and the
Fate of California Daughters," The Californians (October-November
1989). Reprinted as monograph, Mother California Cherishing Her Daucihters.
Chico: The Chico Museum, 1989.
"Chico Women: Nemesis of the Anti-Chinese
Movement: 1876-1888," California History (Winter 1989).
"Sweet Memories and Bitter Moments: The
Hom and Lee Families," The Diggins. (Winter 1989).
"The Doctor, The Lawyer and the Political
Chief in the 1850s of Butte County," The University Journal. (Entire
edition). California State University, Chico, 1982. Editorial Board named
it the publication's best of the year.
"Historic Chapmantown," The Diggins
(Winter 1981), 75-78.
Chico's Little Chapman Mansion: The
House and Its People. Chico: The Association for Northern California
Records and Research, 1981.
Review. "Don't Worry Your Little Heads,"
Western Political Quarterly, 1982.
"Go to the End of the Line: Married Women
Faculty," Frontiers, 1978.
"Roles and Images of Women in World War
I Propaganda," Politics and Society, 1976.