Staff
Dr. Josh Sides
Director
Josh Sides is Director of the Center and the Whitsett Professor of California History in the Department of History at California State University Northridge. His research interests include urban history and policy, race relations, and sexual politics. He is the author of numerous articles and the book L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). He is currently revising his second book, Erotic City, about the impact of the sexual revolution on neighborhood politics in San Francisco. He has been a frequent commentator on KPCC, KPFK, KQED, and NPR Radio. He received his PhD in US History from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999 and completed his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Davis, in 1994.”
Tom Hogen-Esch, Ph.D.
Director of Policy Studies and Community Outreach
Tom Hogen-Esch is Director of Policy Studies and Community Outreach of the Center for Southern California Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science. He has recently published articles in Urban Affairs Review, California Politics and Policy, and California Policy Issues Annual. He is working with Terry Christensen on the second edition of "Local Politics: Governing at the Grassroots (2006). And, he is currently working on a study of the impact of term limits in the California State Assembly. His teaching interests include U.S. and California Government, Public Policy, and Urban Politics. From 1997-1999, he held a staff position for the Los Angeles Elected Charter Reform Commission. He received a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Southern California in 2002.
Tina Kotin-Savitch
Administrative Coordinator
Tina Kotin-Savitch is Administrative Coordinator of the Center for Southern California Studies and SOLAR Coordinator for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is also the coordinator for the 19th Annual Envisioning California Conference being held this September 19th.