This list provides a sample of my publications. For a full accounting of my work, please check out my CV.
Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)
Cuenca, Alex and Joseph R. Nichols. “The Rise and Fall of Missouri’s Performance Assessment of Student Teachers: A Policy Network Analysis of the Missouri Pre-Service Teacher Assessment.” Education Policy Analysis and Archives 30, no. 7 (February 2022): 1-28.
Nichols, Joseph R. “Who is a नागरिक (citizen)? Civic Orientations in Indian Education Policy.” Citizenship, Teaching and Learning 15, no. 2 (June 2020): 239-254.
Nichols, Joseph R., Stephanie Hendel, and Natalie Gerke. “For Those Who “Love Liberty and the American Way of Life’: Governor Lester G. Maddox and the Opening of Post-Brown Segregation Academies in Georgia.” History Matters 32, no. 4 (December 2019): 1-9.
Cuenca, Alex and Joseph R. Nichols. “Framing Teacher Education: An Analysis of the Comprehensive Educator Equity Plans of Sixteen State Agencies.” The New Educator 15, no. 1: (January-March 2019): 1-17.
Nichols, Joseph R. and Alex Cuenca. “Two Roadmaps, One Destination: The Economic Progress Paradigm in Teacher Education Accountability in Georgia and Missouri.” Action in Teacher Education 36, no. 5/6 (Winter 2014): 446-459.
Cuenca, Alex and Joseph R. Nichols. “Ferguson Is About Us Too: A Call to Explore Our Communities.” Social Education 78, no. 5 (September-October 2014): 248-253.
Book Chapters
Nichols, Joseph R. “The Economic Citizen: Civic Education and Its Discontents.” In Teaching in an Age of Economic Disparity, edited by Cory Wright-Maley and Trent Davis (New York, NY: Routledge, 2017), 25-41. (invited) (peer-reviewed)
Policy Briefs
Nichols, Joseph R., Alex Cuenca, and Andrew Diemer. “Policy Analysis: The Rise and Fall of Missouri’s Performance Assessment of Student Teachers.” PRiME Center Policy Briefs 3, no. 4 (July 15, 2021).
Nichols, Joseph R., Stacey Preis, and Evan Rhinesmith. “The Road Back: St. Louis Public School Governance.” PRiME Center Policy Briefs 1, no. 1 (April 19, 2019).
Public Scholarship Essays
Nichols, Joseph R. “Where Does Constitutional Originalism Come From?” An Injustice! (September 10, 2021).
Nichols, Joseph R. “The White Imagination of Make America Great Again.” An Injustice! (July 19, 2021).
Nichols, Joseph R. “Morality by Executive Order.” Politically Speaking (February 28, 2021).
Nichols, Joseph R. “What Georgia’s County Unit System Tells Us About the Electoral College and Republican Party.” The Bigger Picture (January 26, 2021).