Faculty Accomplishments
Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Chilton for being a contributing author to a recently published collection on Southern Black women's struggles during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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The Waterboys - Two Irishmen and the Politics of Water in California
Dr. Glen Gendzel's recent interview on Irish national radio as a guest on "The History Show," talking about his recent article on Irish water engineers in California.
Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico
By Dr. Alberto Garcia 2023 Winner of the William M. LeoGrande Prize for the best book on U.S.-Latin American Relations, an award bestowed by the School of Public Affairs and the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University. Listen to a podcast hosted by Rachel Grace Newman, Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University. Dr. Newman interviews San José State's very own Dr. Alberto García about his new book Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The Politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico.
Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of Women's Suffrage Movement
By Dr. Wendy L. Rouse. A podcast hosted by Susan Liebell a Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Dr. Liebell interviews San José State's very own Dr. Wendy Rouse about her new book Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement.
Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography
On November 17, 2010 Mary Pickering spoke in the University Scholar Series hosted by Provost Gerry Selter at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. Mary Pickering discussed her three-volume Pulitzer Prize nominated work entitled Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography. Comte was a French Philosopher and the father of sociology. Professor Pickering teaches courses at SJSU in French history, German history, European women's history, and urban history.
The Very Queer History of the Suffrage Movement
Written by Dr. Wendy L. Rouse. When lawyer and suffragist Gail Laughlin (1868-1952) discovered that her evening gown had no pockets in it, she refused to wear it until the pockets were sewn on. Objecting to the restrictive nature of women’s clothing was just one of the ways that suffragists sought to upend the status quo in the early twentieth century. The women’s suffrage movement allowed women to re-examine, question, and begin to systematically rebel against the many restrictions they had lived under for centuries – including oppressive gender and sexual norms. There are, of course, more serious examples, besides Laughlin’s demand for pockets, of how suffragists defied the gendered conventions of their day....
Bill and Mike: How Two Irishmen Slaked the Thirst of California’s Great Cities
Written by Dr. Glen Gendzel. Los Angeles and San Francisco, with nearly 20 million residents in their combined metropolitan areas, are California’s two most famous cities. Yet neither city has anything close to an adequate water supply within hundreds of miles. Tremendous feats of hydraulic engineering are necessary to store and transport water from California’s inland mountain rivers to big cities on the state’s semi-arid coast. In the early twentieth century, a pair of Irish immigrant engineers named Bill and Mike took charge of building these water systems for Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Fathers vs. Slavery
Check out a book written by Dr. Libra Hilde, Slavery Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities Over the Long Nineteenth Century.
Sex, Sexuality and Suffrage
A panel of scholars (Featuring Dr. Wendy L. Rouse) talked about how suffragists, as a group, outwardly adhered to traditional ideas of marriage and heterosexuality to demonstrate the suffrage movement’s respectability, yet many privately engaged in non-traditional relationships. The California Historical Society hosted this event and provided the video.
