The Study of History at SJSU

	Faculty
	Elizabeth Ansnes John Bernhardt Rob Cirivilleri Michael Conniff Patricia Lopes Don Glen Gendzel Libra Hilde Patricia Evridge Hill Iris Jerke Allison Katsev Rajiv Khanna Benjamin Kline Robert Kumamoto Gus Lease Phillip Lyman Margo McBane Aime McNamara David Meir-Levi Danelle Moon Eric Narveson Mary Pickering Rick Propas E. Bruce Reynolds Jonathan Roth Gaius Stern Stanley Underdal Mary Lynn Wilson
	Staff
	Diana Baker Crystal Hupp


	Glen Gendzel Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998. M.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1987. B.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1982.

	Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 217 Email: ggendzel@email.sjsu.edu Phone: 408-924-5514 Faculty page

	Areas of Interest California and the American West. U.S. politics, economics, business, foreign policy. Social memory and political culture. Gilded Age and Progressive Era



	Publications "Pride, Wrath, Glee, and Fear: Emotional Responses to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the Catholic Press, 1950-1954." American Catholic Studies 120 (Summer 2009): 27-52. "Twain and Warner Were Right." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 8 (July 2009): 446-450. "It Didn't Start with Proposition 187: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Nativist Legislation in California." Journal of the West 48 (Spring 2009): 76-85. "Not Just a Golden State: Three Anglo 'Rushes' in the Making of Southern California, 1880-1920." Southern California Quarterly 91 (Spring 2008/2009): 349-378. "California." Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior, ed. by Kenneth F. Warren and J. Geoffrey Golson (SAGE Publications, 2008): 69-73. "Le Duc Tho." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, ed. by William A. Darity, 2nd ed. (Thomson Gale, 2007). "Did the Progressive Movement Have a 'Class Problem'?" Reviews in American History 34 (Dec. 2006): 499-508. "United States, 1914-1929." In Stephen J. Whitfield, ed., Blackwell Companion to 20th-Century America (Blackwell Publishing, 2004), pp. 19-35. "Pioneers and Padres: Competing Mythologies in Northern and Southern California, 1850-1930." Western Historical Quarterly 32 (Spring 2001): 55-79. "Public Memory." In George T. Kurian, Miles Orvell, Johnella E. Butler, and Jay Mechling, eds., Encyclopedia of American Studies (Grolier/American Studies Association, 2001), Vol. 3, pp. 438-441. "Was the Progressive Movement Really 'Progressive'?" In Robert Allison, ed., History in Dispute, Vol. 3: American Social and Political Movements, 1900-1945 (St. James Press, 2000), pp. 205-208. Over 100 entries (50-1,000 words) in Marc Leepson, ed., Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War (Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1999) and in Stanley I. Kutler, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (Simon & Schuster, 1996). "Political Culture: Genealogy of a Concept." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28 (Autumn 1997): 225-250. "Competitive Boosterism: How Milwaukee Lost the Braves." Business History Review 69 (Winter 1995): 530-566.

	Biography I am a proud Bay Area native. Born in Oakland, I graduated from Palo Alto High School and the University of California, Berkeley, before leaving the Bay Area to start a far-ranging academic odyssey. I endured mid-western winters to earn M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Then I endured southern summers when I taught at the University of Georgia and at Tulane University in New Orleans. Then I experienced Southern California as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Then I spent several years teaching at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) before coming home to the Bay Area at last to teach at San Jose State. I have published articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and reviews on subjects ranging from California mythology, politics, and migration to the baseball business, social memory, and McCarthyism. I am at work on a variety of projects including a book manuscript about the progressive movement in California in the early twentieth century. I am always delighted to teach California students about California history and other subjects dear to my heart.