About Josh Sides: jsides@csun.edu
Dr. Sides joined the CSUN History Department in 2005 as the second Whitsett Professor of California History, and was appointed as the Director for Center for Southern California Studies in 2007. At CSUN, he teaches classes on urban history, the West, African Americans, and California. He has published numerous articles and the books L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004) and Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). He is currently editing an anthology entitled Post-Ghetto: Reimagining South Los Angeles and writing a book about an infamous murder in 1920s Los Angeles. He is best reached by email: jsides@csun.edu