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Areas
of Interest
U.S. Women's History
U.S. Gender History
California History
Public History
American Social/Labor History
History of the West
Social History of American Culture
U.S. Comparative Ethnic/Racial History
Immigration History
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Current
Courses
Hist 188: U.S. Women's History.
Hist 189A: California History up to 1900.
Hist 189B: California History after 1900. |
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Publications
• Co-authored with Anthea Hartig, “’Oranges
on the Plains of Id’: The Influence of the
Citrus Industry on San Gabriel Valley Communities.”
California Politics and Policy,
California State
University Los Angeles, 1998.
• The Way We Were: Pico Rivera’s Citrus History,
1920-1945. (booklet) City of Pico
Rivera: Pico Rivera
Arts and Culture Commission, 1997.
• “The Role
of Gender in Citrus Employment; A Case Study of Recruitment, Labor,
Housing Patterns at the Limoneira Company, 1893-1940.”
California History, 1995.
• “The History of Women Farmworkers in California.”
Frontiers, 1983.
• “Labor Pains: The History of Women Farmworkers
in California.” California History,
1978.
• History of California Agriculture: Focus on Women
Farmworkers. Watsonville:
Watsonville
Press, 1976.
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Public History
Projects
• Public Historian, County of Tuolumne, Phase
2 and Phase 3 of historical architectural
survey
and cultural landscape retrieval of Twain Harte.
• Oral
Historian, City of Rancho Cucamonga, citrus and viticultural history
retrieval
project.
• Oral Historian,
City of Pico Rivera, coordinator of high school oral history retrieval
of
citrus history and history curator for temporary
exhibit, “The Way We Were: Pico Rivera’s
Citrus
History, 1900-1945.
• Oral Historian, City of La Verne,
directed oral history retrieval project of citrus history.
• Oral
History Editor, Free Speech Project, Regional Oral History Office,
University of
California Berkeley.
• Planning
Director, Citrus Gold Project: The Citrus Legacy of California and
Arizona,
Partnership of Autry Museum of Western Heritage,
Getty Research Institute for the History \
of Art and the Humanities, and the Riverside Municipal Museum.
• Writer
and Producer, “Looking Back: An Oral History Series,”
Bi-weekly radio program
for public radio on history
issues facing the Central Coast Region during the 20th
century.
• Writer and Producer, “Talkin’ Farmwork Blues:
An Oral History of California Agricultural Workers,”
two part, two
hour series developed for public radio. |
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Selected
Achievements
• Co-Founder Award, SF Bay Area Labor History
Workshop.
• Focused Issue Award of L.A. Branch of American Planners
Association, Citrus Oral
History Project for City of La Verne.
• California Council in the Humanities, Annual Most Distinguished
Project Award,
“Talkin’ Farmwork Blues”.
• Rural Policy Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson
Foundation.
• Woman’s National Farm and Garden Association
Dissertation Fellowship.
• Inter-Ethnic Studies Dissertation Fellowship of Institute
of American Cultures, UCLA.
• U.C. Mexus Dissertation Fellowship.
• Graduate Division Fellowship in the Humanities and
Social Sciences, U.C.L.A.. |
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Biography
As an historian, I am interested in working within the academy
as well as the surrounding community. I am interdisciplinary in my
approach to history. My interest in history formed through the lens
of community studies, my undergraduate major at UCSC. After conducting
field work with the United Farmworkers of America, I wrote my B.A.
thesis, “Labor Pains: The History of Women in California Agriculture.”
I then received a grant from the Youth Project to convert this thesis
into a union organizing book for the United Farmworkers of America.
I pursued a high school teaching credential and M.A.
in Education from Stanford University. I taught high school social
studies at Palo Alto High School and Carmel High School. Unfortunately
Proposition 13 passed soon after I received my credential, resulting
in the dismissal of all recent hires, so I ventured into the world
of public history. I have worked in museums, public radio documentary
production, non-profit history development, and municipal history
projects (known as Cultural Resource Management). In one such project,
I received grants from several foundations including the California
Council in the Humanities and the Kellogg Foundation to produce an
award-winning two part, two hour radio documentary for public radio,
“Talkin’ Farmwork Blues: An Oral History of California
Farm Labor.” I also served as the LA Program Officer for the
California Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National
Endowment for the Humanities. My public history specialty is oral
history.
I completed my M.A. in History from UC Davis, with my thesis, “The
Role of Women in Determining the California Farm Labor Structure:
A Case Study of the Woman’s Land Army During World War I.”
Subsequently I obtained an History Ph.D. from UCLA. I received honors
in my field with my dissertation, “The House that Lemons Built:
Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Citizenship, and the Creation of a Citrus
Empire, 1893-1919.” |
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