ICW Los Angeles Group

Co-moderators:

Allison Varzally, CSU Fullerton

Nick Rosenthal, Loyola Marymount University

Description:

The Los Angeles Group offers a congenial forum in which scholars of Southern California history can present and discuss their work related to the region's past.  The purpose of the research group is to encourage an exchange of ideas and concepts that can aid each scholar's work.  The group provides a forum for the latest scholarship on Los Angeles, as well as for innovative interdisciplinary projects that engage Southern California's history.  Its is the goal of the group that such exchanges will lead to both publication and increased collaboration by those involved in writing Los Angeles history.

Group members (to be posted):

Adams, Thomas
Allen, James
Andrews, Thomas
Adams, Thomas
Allen, James
Andrews, Thomas
Aron, Steve
Arroyo, Luis
Avila, Eric
Baker, Allison
Barraclough, Laura
Barron, Hal
Bills, Emily
Blodgett, Peter
Boime, Eric
Bokovoy, Matthew
Borghei, Suzanne
Braitman, Jacqueline
Branfman, Judy
Breisch, Kenneth
Briegel, Kaye
Brown, Margie
Burt, Kenneth
Cady, Daniel
Carey, Gabriele
Cerillo, Augustus
Chavez, Marisela
Christofferson, Laura
Colston, Stephen
Connor, Michan
Contreras, Eduardo
Culver, Lawrence
Damon, Frank
Davidson, Ron
Davis, Colleen
Dawson, A
DeGraaf, Lawrence
Deverell, Bill
Dickerson, Brent
Douglass, John
Dreier, Peter
Elkind, Sarah
Elliott-Scheinberg, Wendy
Engh, Michael
Erskine, Matthew
Essington, Amy
Estrada, Gilbert
Estrada, William
Ethington, Philip
Faragher, John
Fireman, Janet
Freer, Regina
Garcia, Matthew
Gish, Todd
Gold, Christina
Gomez, Traude
Gonzalez, Jerry
Gray, Paul
Greene, Sean
Grenier, Judd
Gross, Ariela
Gudis, Catherine
Gutfreund, Zevi
Guzman, Kristen
Haskins, Matt
Hendricks, Craig
Hernandez, Kim
Hirahara, Naomi
Hise, Greg
Hoffman, Abe
Holguin, Claudia
Hornsby, Wendy
HoSang, Daniel
Janssen, Volker
>Jenks, Hillary
Jenks, Karen
Jimenez y West, Christopher
Johnson, Ben
Kalish, Jennifer
Kanner, Diane
Kemper, Kurt
Kendrick, Megan
Kinder, Marsha
Kobayashi, Kathy
Kolnick, Kathy
Koos, Cheryl
Kurashige, Lon
Laslett, John
Lepowsky, Maria
Levitus, David
Lewinnek, Elaine
Lewis, Dan
Licon, Gerardo
Lindsey, Rahla
Lothrop, Gloria
Macias, Anthony
Mandel, Jennifer
Marcus, Kenneth
Marshall, Robert
Martin, Julie
Matthews, Glenna
May, Elaine
May, Lary
McEnaney, Laura
Meadow, Tony
Merritt, John
Meyer, Lee Ann
Molina, Natalia
Montoya, Robert
Nickerson, Michelle
Nicolaides, Becky
Nunis, Doyce
Orr, Lisa
Orsi, Jared
Orsi, Richard
Ovnick, Merry
Parson, Don
Peterson, Marina
Pincetl, Stephanie
Pintar, Laurie
Pitt, Leonard
Price, Jennifer
Pubols, Louise
Pulido, Laura
Reid, Andie
Reiff, Janice
Ritchie, Roy
Romney, Charles
Rosenthal, Nick
Roth, Matt
Ruiz, Vicki
Saito, Leland
Sanchez, George
Schiesl, Martin
Schrank, Sarah
Schuele, Donna
Sekhon, Sharon
Shaffer, Ralph
Shell, Livia
Shorr, Howard
Sides, Josh
Sitton, Tom
Sloane, David
Slusser, Sean
Smith, Tracy
Sosa-Riddell, Citlali
Spaulding, Jonathan
Spooner, Denise
Stansbury, Jeff
Steiner, Michael
Stevens, Errol
Stevens, Matt
Straus, Emily
Sundquist, Eric
Sutton, Matthew
Thabet, Andrea
Trowbridge, Cameron
Tucker, Sherrie
Unterman, Katherine
Varzally, Allison
Verge, Arthur
Waldie, D.J.
Wallis, Eileen
Walsh, Eileen
Watts, Jenny
Weber, Devra
Wickham, Nancy Quam
Widener, Daniel
Wild, Mark
Wilson, Karen
Wollan, Kathryn
Yates, Susan
Yoo, David
Young, Terence
Zachary, Claude

Upcoming Meetings:

October 25
Wiring the Region: The Telephone and the Development of Los Angeles, 1880-1918
Emily Bills, Woodbury University

December 6
Constructing the California Story: The Role of the Huntington Library
Tony Platt, Sacramento State University

January 13, 2009
Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen
Joint Meeting with Autry Western History Workshop
Sherrie Tucker, University of Kansas

February 14, 2009
Roundtable Discussion: Teaching Los Angeles sand California History

March 21, 2009
The State, Urban Redevelopment and the Production of the Service Working-Class in Postwar Los Angeles
Thomas J. Adams, University of Chicago

May 16, 2009
Clark Davis Memorial Lecture
(speaker TBA)


All seminars, with the exception of the joint meeting with the Autry Western History Workshop, meet in Classrooms 1 & 2 of the Munger Research Center at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California.  We begin at 10:00am, with coffee available starting at 9:30.  To obtain individual announcements for each meeting, including instructions for receiving the pre-circulated paper, please contact one of the moderators listed below:

Allison Varzally or Nick Rosenthal.

Past Meetings:

May 17, 2008
Clark Davis Memorial Lecture

March 15, 2008
Black Beverly Hills: Elite African American Neighborhoods on Los Angeles' South Side, 1930s to 1970s
Jennifer Mandel, University of New Hampshire

January, 2008
What Price Los Angeles Labor Exceptionalism? A Reinterpretation of the 1880-1930 Period
John Laslett, UCLA
(Joint Meeting with Autry Western History Workshop)

February 9, 2008
"Exile in Paradise!"  Arnold Schoenberg and the Los Angeles Emigrés
Kenneth Marcus, University of La Verne

December 1, 2007
The History of Los Angeles through Historical Preservation
Barry Stiefel, ASM Affiliates Inc. and Tulane University

October 27, 2007
Urban Removal: California's Prison Labor Camps, 1944-1973
Volker Janssen, CSU Fullerton

September 29, 2007
Mexican-American Women, Clubs, and the "Spanish" Auxiliary in Southern California, 1880-1930
Eileen Wallis, Cal Poly Pomona

May 19, 2007
Clark Davis Memorial Lecture
Laura Pulido, USC

March 31, 2007
Ethnic Mexicans and the Barriozation of Suburban Los Angeles, 1950-1965
Jerry Gonzales, UCLA

February 10, 2007
"All Aboard for Prosperity": Transporting Workers to Los Angeles via "Homeseeker Excursion" Trains, 1904-1914
Kim Hernandez, UCLA

January 18, 2007
Coloring Outside Ethnic Lines: The Making of Non-White American in California, 1925-1955
Allison Varzally, CSU Fullerton
(This was a joint meeting with the Autry Museum)

December 9, 2006
The Next Los Angeles
Lyn Goldfarb, producer

October 28, 2006
Monumental Coincidence: The Capitol Records Building and the Architecture of the Future
Matt Haskins, Claremont Graduate University

September 23, 2006
Grassroots Indian Activism: American Indians and the Red Power Movement in Los Angeles
Nick Rosenthal, LMU

May 13, 2006
Raphael Sonenshein, CSU Fullerton

March 18, 2006
A place of our very own: The Pacific Beach Club, Black Angelenos, and Incendiary White Southerners
Dan Cady

February 9, 2006
Rethinking Conservation: Nature, City, and Suburb in Progressive-Era Los Angeles
Ben Johnson
(This was a joint meeting with the Autry Museum)

Saturday, December 3, 2005
Changing Ethnic Patterns in Greater Los Angeles, 1990-2000
James Allen

Saturday, November 5, 2005
California Dreaming: Multiracial Civil Rights Activism in Mid-Twentieth Century Los Angeles
Shana Bernstein

Saturday, September 24, 2005
Citizens without Standing: Los Angeles Politics at the Beach
Sarah S. Elkind, San Diego State University