Becky Nicolaides is a historian and expert on American suburbs. Her latest book, The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945 (Oxford, 2024) traces how the suburbs transitioned from lily-white to multiracial and reveals the compelling stories that unfolded through that change.

Becky has consulted on numerous public history projects, films, and podcasts, she served on the LA Mayor’s Working Group on Civic Memory, and she is part of a transnational group of scholars studying suburbanism in the EU and US. She is a co-founder of History Studio, a partnership of award-winning scholars providing expert research, script vetting, and original content for the entertainment industry.

She is launching an initiative to help suburbs seeking to foster inclusive, welcoming communities, using The Suburb Toolkit. She gives talks to community groups about the history and future of our suburbs.