College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Second Annual Whitsett Graduate Seminar in California History

You are invited to attend the Second Annual Whitsett Graduate Seminar in California History.

Please RSVP by phone: (818) 677-3566

Second Annual Whitsett Graduate Seminar in California History Friday, May 11th Whitsett Room, CSUN Campus

8:30-9:00: Coffee and Introductions

9:00-10:30: Panel 1: New Directions in 19th Century California History (Chair: Eric Avila)
Joshua Paddison (PhD UCLA): “’Deliver Us from Heathen’: Christianity, Race, and Suffrage in Postbellum California.”
Elaine Wogensen (MA Fullerton): “A Southern California Town’s Evolving Attitudes Toward Consumptives, 1881-1914”

10:45-12:15: Panel 2: Environmental History (Chair: Thomas Andrews)
Robert Denning (PhD Ohio State): “The Air Resources Board under Governor Ronald Reagan”
Edward N. O’Rourke (MA CSU East Bay): “A Perspective on California’s Peripheral Canal Debate.”

12:15-1:15: LUNCH

1:15-2:45: Panel 3: Spanish Past (Chair: Roberto Sagarena)
Zevi Gutfreund (PhD UCLA): “Sugar Cube Classrooms: Historical Memory and the Mission Curriculum in California Schools.”
Citlali Sosa-Riddell (PhD UCLA): “Spanish Revivalism in the Age of Defeat: Californios Intellectual Life, Whiteness, and Nationalism, 1850-1900.”

3:00-4:30: Panel 4: California in the 1960s (Chair: Mark Wild)
Maureen Murray (MA CSU East Bay) “A Source of Pride: The Founding of Metropolitan Community Church, San Francisco” Ben Piggot (PhD, U. of Washington) no title. Explores “Political and cultural controversy surrounding radicalism at UC Irvine in the late 1960s”

4:30-5:30 Reception

5:30: DINNER

Dr. Josh Sides
Department of History
Sierra Tower 612
Cal State Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330
Phone: (818) 677-5665
jsides@csun.edu

www.csun.edu/~jsides