Robert C. Nickerson is professor emeritus of information systems in the College of Business at San Francisco State University.

His areas of interest include diffusion of mobile technology and smartphone apps, taxonomic theory, taxonomy development in IS, wireless/mobile applications, electronic commerce systems, and database systems.  He has published numerous research papers in these and other areas, and he has written a number of invited papers, research reports, and articles for industry publications.

I am a historian of nineteenth-century France, especially interested in social, cultural, religious, and gender history in both metropolitan France and the wider French empire.  I am currently working on the “culture of childhood” in France during the second half of the nineteenth century.  I teach courses on European social, cultural, and intellectual history from the French Revolution to the First World War.  I also direct the European Studies minor program.

Hello! I've been teaching in the Women and Gender Studies department at SFSU since 2007, and I've been a Women and Gender Studies professor since 1994. I'm a historian, and I teach courses on research methods, writing, and feminist and queer theory.