JESSICA KIM
18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330-8250
(213) 255-6236 | jessica.kim@csun.edu
www.jessicamichellekim.com
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, California State University, Northridge, 2018-present
Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge, 2013-2018
Postdoctoral Fellow, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, 2012-2013
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Southern California, History, 2012
M.A. University of Southern California, History, 2009
B. A. La Sierra University, History, 2000
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865-1941
David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History, University of North Carolina Press, September 2019.
Refereed Articles
“Los Angeles,” invited submission, Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Oxford University Press,
2023.
“American Empire and the Landscapes of Los Angeles,” Boom California, January 2020.
https://boomcalifornia.org/2020/01/09/american-empire-and-the-landscapes-of-los-angeles/
“Destiny of the West: The International Pacific Highway and the Pacific Borderlands,
1929-1957,” Western Historical Quarterly (Fall 2015): 11-33.
“The Contested Nexus of Los Angeles Koreatown: Capital Restructuring, Gentrification,
and Displacement,” with Kyeyoung Park, Amerasia Journal (February 2009): 127-150.
Articles and Public Scholarship
“How Latin America Built L.A.: Excavating the Century of Economic Domination Beneath the
2022 Summit of the Americas,” Zócalo Public Square (June 6, 2022).
https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/06/06/how-latin-america-built-los-angeles/ideas/essay/
“Roads and Walls in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” Australian and New Zealand American
Studies Association Blog, October 2019.
https://anzasablog.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/roads-and-walls-in-the-u-s-mexico-borderlands/
“Roads and Walls in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” University of North Carolina Press Blog,
September 2019. https://uncpressblog.com/2019/09/18/jessica-m-kim-roads-and-walls-in-the-u-s-mexico-borderlands/
“Why Trump’s Wall will Fail,” University of North Carolina Press Blog, September 2019.
https://uncpressblog.com/2019/09/09/jessica-m-kim-why-trumps-wall-will-fail/
“Teaching California History Roundtable,” California History (November 2018): 8-21.
“Filming Pro-Patria: On the Road from Los Angeles to Mexico City,” Borderlands History
Blog, April 2017. https://borderlandshistory.org/2017/04/03/filming-pro-patria-on-the-road-from-los-angeles-to-mexico-city/
“Map Room: The Contours of Los Angeles and the 1932 Olympics,” California History,
(Summer 2015): 2-3.
“Foodscapes,” in Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin,
1940-1990, digital and print exhibition, Huntington Library, part of Pacific Standard
Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.: an initiative of the Getty, 2014.
http://pstpedison.com/kim.html
Book Reviews
Roundtable Review, Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs, by
Maria L. Quintana, in Passport: Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Review, forthcoming.
Review, Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City, by A. K. Sandoval-
Strausz, in Journal of American Ethnic History, forthcoming.
Review, In Pursuit of Utopia: Los Angeles in the Great Depression, by Errol Wayne Stevens, in
Pacific Historical Review, forthcoming.
Review, Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning, by Steven T.
Moga, in Pacific Historical Review, 2022.
Review, Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City, by Andrew J. Diamond,
in Pacific Historical Review, 2021.
Review, Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern
African to the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1880-1917, by Andrew Offenburger, in Diplomatic History, 2021.
Review, Migrant Longing: Letter Writing Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, by Miroslava
Chávez-García, in California History, Fall 2019.
Review, Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917, by Marne L.
Campbell, in Pacific Historical Review, Summer 2018.
Review, Where Texas Meets the Sea: Corpus Christi and Its History by Alan Lessoff, in
Pacific Historical Review, October 2016.
Review, Before L.A.: Race, Space and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 by
David Samuel Torres-Rouff and Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction by Stacey L. Smith, in Reviews in American History, September 2015.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Summer Research Fellowship, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2014-2022
Polished Apple Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring, CSUN, 2019
Research Grant, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2017
Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award, CSUN, 2015-2016
NEH Fellowship, “Bridging National Borders in North America,” at the Newberry Library, 2014
New Faculty Research Award, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2013-2014
Dissertation Research Award, USC-Huntington Institute on California and the West, 2011
Dissertation Research Award, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2011
Haynes Foundation Research Fellow, Huntington Library, 2010
Dissertation Research Award, Historical Society of Southern California, 2010
Kelterborn Merit Award, University of Southern California, 2009-2010
Roberta Foulke Research Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2008, 2010, 2011
College Graduate Merit Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2006-2012
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talks
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, part of the series
“Retos históricos y actuales del norte de México y el sur-oeste de Estados Unidos,” June
2021.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, Autry National Center, March 2021.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, Chicano Studies Center, UCLA, May 2020 (canceled due to
COVID-19).
“Los Angeles, Empire, and Urban Landscapes,” keynote address, American Studies Research
Symposium, California State University, Fullerton, April 2020.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, Ontario Museum of Art and History, November 2019.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the
West/Huntington Library, November 2019.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, Museum of the San Fernando Valley, 2018.
“The Visual Legacy of the Mexican Revolution,” Museum of Latin American Art, June 2015.
“In Conversation with Jessica Kim,” Huntington Library, November 2014.
Academic Conferences
“Los Angeles: Roundtable,” presenter, Organization of American Historians, panel accepted,
April 2023.
“International Intrigue and Political Violence in the age of Pan-Americanism,” discussant,
Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, November 2021.
“American Empire and the Landscapes of Los Angeles,” paper presented, Organization of
American Historians, April 2021.
“Los Angeles: Investment,” paper presented, Society of Historians of American Foreign
Relations, June 2021.
“Transnational Latin American Politics in the 20th-Century United States West,” discussant,
Western History Association, October 2020.
“Enduring, Negotiating, Interrogating Liminality: Migrants and Immigrants at the Border, in
Detention, and in Agricultural Labor since 1882,” discussant, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, August 2020.
“Memorialization, Display, and the Archive: Mobilizing Alternative Racial Futures,” discussant,
American Studies Association, November 2019.
“Fiestas, Performance, and Resistance in Mexican American Communities,” discussant,
Western History Association, October 2019.
“Zines to Tap Water: Reimagining the History Classroom,” discussant, American
Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Meeting, August 2019.
“Form and Landscape: Los Angeles and Digital History,” paper presented, Western History
Association, November 2017.
“‘A Hard and Desperate Fight’: Race, Masculinity, and Private Property in the Los Angeles-
Mexico Borderlands,” paper presented, Western Association of Women Historians, April 2017.
“Water on the Border: Transnational and Environmental Perspectives on the History of the U.S.-
Mexico Borderlands,” discussant, Western History Association, October 2016.
“Californio Dreams: A Century of Exporting Fantasies and Utopias,” panel organizer and paper
presented, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, August 2016.
“One Hundred Years Since Columbus,” conference organizer and paper presented, Huntington
Library, June 2016.
“New Mexico, 1916: Villa and the Impact of the Mexican Revolution on US History and
Historiography,” paper presented, Organization of American Historians, April 2016.
“‘A Place of Great Importance’: American Expansionism, Mexican Investments, and Los
Angeles, 1829-1885,” paper presented, Western History Association, October 2015.
“Is There a Los Angeles School of Western History?” roundtable with Virginia Scharff, Stephen
Aron, William Deverell, John Mack Faragher, and Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Western History Association, October 2014.
“The City of Los Angeles vs. the Government of Mexico,” paper presented, American Historical
Association, Pacific Coast Branch, August 2014.
“Teaching Sustainability through Digital Los Angeles,” panel organizer and paper presented,
National Council on Public History, March 2014.
“From Spanish Past to Pacific Future: Region, Identity, and Tourism along the California and
Mexico Pacific Coast, 1920-1957,” paper presented, Western History Association, October 2013.
“Good Feelings and Commercial Ties: Forging Angeleno-Mexican Partnerships, 1874-1910,”
paper presented, Newberry Library Borderlands and Latino Studies Seminar, September
2013.
“Destiny of the West: Tourism, Leisure, and Reconnecting the Western Hemisphere,” paper
presented, Latin American Studies Association, May 2012.
“The Walrus, the Fox, and the Desert: City, Region, and Empire in Los Angeles and Mexico,
1898-1944,” paper presented, Western History Association, October 2011.
“Fortune and Misfortune in the Los Angeles-Mexico Borderlands, 1902-1920,” paper presented,
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference, June 2010.
“Imperial Los Angeles: Exploring the City’s Global Past, 1890-1930,” paper presented,
Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas Annual Conference, July
2009.
“Culture of Conquest: Panama, U.S. Travel Narratives, and Imagining a White Colonial Utopia,
1904-1914,” paper presented, Huntington-USC Institute for California and the West, May
2008.
“The Contested Nexus of Los Angeles Koreatown: Bohemianization as a Step to Capital
Restructuring,” paper presented with Kyeyoung Park, PhD, Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference, 2005.
Guest Lectures and Teaching Presentations
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, History Department, California State University, Los Angeles,
November 2022.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, History Department, University of California, Riverside,
September 2022.
“History, Public History, and the Academe,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Getty
Multicultural Internship Program, August 2022.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, History Department, University of Southern California, Spring
2020 and 2021.
“Los Angeles and Mexico,” Chicano Studies Department, University of California, Los Angeles,
February 2020.
“Graduate School and Beyond,” Getty Multicultural Internship Program, July 2019.
“California and the Nation,” History and Geography Project, University of California, Los
Angeles, July and October 2017.
“Los Angeles: 1848-1920,” History and Geography Project, University of California, Los
Angeles, July 2015.
“The U.S. West and Mexico,” Huntington Library, August 2015.
Interviews
“The Real Wild West,” long-form documentary interview, Autry National Center, September
2022.
Book Interview: Imperial Metropolis, long-form interview, New Books West/New Books
Podcast, September 2021.
“Imagined Wests,” Artbound television series, KCET, August 2021.
“Borderlands,” Lost LA television series, KCET, October 2017.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP PROJECTS
Producer and researcher, Western Edition Podcast, Huntington-USC Institute on California and
the West, 2021-present.
Contributor, Past Due: Report and Recommendations of the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office Civic
Memory Working Group, 2021.
https://civicmemory.la/
Member, City of Los Angeles Mayoral Commission on Civic Memory, 2019-2021.
Faculty Advisor, “Black Pobladores: The Founding of Los Angeles and its African Roots,” an
exhibit produced in partnership with CSUN students and El Pueblo Historical
Monument, City of Los Angeles, 2015-2016.
Project Manager and Curator, “Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los
Angeles Basin, 1940-1990,” a digital exhibit produced in partnership with the Huntington Library and the Getty Foundation, 2012-2013.
Contributor, “Los Angeles and Water: In Commemoration of the Los Angeles Aqueduct,”
primary source collection, 2012-2013.
Postdoctoral Associate, AHA-NEH Atlantic and Pacific Worlds Community College Seminar,
2012-2013.
Historical Advisor, Education Department, Museum of Latin American Art,
“An Introduction to Latin American History,” art and history installation, 2012-2013,
“MoLAA in the Classroom,” curriculum development, 2010-2013.
Coordinator, “Things I’d Like to Know about Los Angeles,” day-long public forum on future
trends in the study of Los Angeles, 2012.
Professional Development Instructor, Pasadena Unified School District, 2012
Topic: Teaching U.S. History (part of a NEH Teaching American History grant).
Archival Assistant, Western Manuscripts Collection, Huntington Library, 2009-2010.
Archival Assistant, Regional Special Collections, University of Southern California, 2007.
TEACHING
California State University, Northridge
History 271 United States Since 1865
History 371 Questions in American History Since the Civil War
History 396 Digital History
History 433 Public History
History 486A History of Los Angeles
History 481 Modern American Borders
History 488 California
History 494 Internship Program
History 497 Tourism and the American Past
History 498 Narrating the Past for the Present
History 548 History and Memory
History 594 Graduate Internship Program
History 596 Graduate Introduction to Public History
California State University, Los Angeles
History 459 Sexuality in the Americas
History 488 California History
History 489 History of Los Angeles
Pepperdine University
History 304 History of the American Peoples
History 326 California History
SERVICE
To the Discipline
Ray Allen Billington Book Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians, 2023-2024
Louise Pubols Public History Award, Western History Association, 2022-2023
Local Resource Committee (Chair), Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical
Association, 2022-2023
Program Committee, Western History Association, 2022-2023
Local Resource Committee, Organization of American Historians, 2022-2023
Program reviewer, American Studies Department, California State University, Fullerton, 2022
Advisory Board, H-CA, 2021-
Council, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, 2018-2021
Editorial Board, Pacific Historical Review, 2015-2021
Campus Liaison, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Annual
Conference, 2017
Reviewer
Oxford University Press, 2022
Public Historian, 2022
University of Nebraska Press, 2021
Diplomatic History, 2020
Pacific Historical Review, 2019
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2019
University of Arizona Press, 2017
California History, 2016-2019
Southern California Quarterly, 2016
Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2016
Journal of Latin American Studies, 2015
To the University, College, and Department
Member, Tenure-Track Position Search Committee, 2022-2023
Senator, Faculty Senate, CSUN 2021-2023
Member, Student Success Workgroup, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2019-
2020
Member, Academic Policy Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2019
Member, Climate Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2018-2019
Mentor, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2017-2018
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, History Department, CSUN
Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee, History Department, CSUN
Member, California Studies Committee, CSUN, 2015-
Member, Center for Southern California Studies, CSUN, 2015-
Member, Whitsett Committee, 2013-
REFERENCES
Dr. William Deverell
Professor
History Department
University of Southern California 3502 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0034
deverell@dornsife.usc.edu
(213) 740-1657
Dr. Benjamin Johnson
Professor/Series Editor, David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History, University of North Carolina Press
Department of History
Loyola University, Chicago
1032 W. Sheridan Road Crown Center, 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60660
bjohnson25@luc.edu
(773) 508-3082
18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330-8250
(213) 255-6236 | jessica.kim@csun.edu
www.jessicamichellekim.com
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, California State University, Northridge, 2018-present
Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge, 2013-2018
Postdoctoral Fellow, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, 2012-2013
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Southern California, History, 2012
M.A. University of Southern California, History, 2009
B. A. La Sierra University, History, 2000
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865-1941
David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History, University of North Carolina Press, September 2019.
- Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book in Urban History, Urban History Association, 2020.
- Named finalist, David J. Weber Prize, Western History Association, 2020.
Refereed Articles
“Los Angeles,” invited submission, Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Oxford University Press,
2023.
“American Empire and the Landscapes of Los Angeles,” Boom California, January 2020.
https://boomcalifornia.org/2020/01/09/american-empire-and-the-landscapes-of-los-angeles/
“Destiny of the West: The International Pacific Highway and the Pacific Borderlands,
1929-1957,” Western Historical Quarterly (Fall 2015): 11-33.
“The Contested Nexus of Los Angeles Koreatown: Capital Restructuring, Gentrification,
and Displacement,” with Kyeyoung Park, Amerasia Journal (February 2009): 127-150.
Articles and Public Scholarship
“How Latin America Built L.A.: Excavating the Century of Economic Domination Beneath the
2022 Summit of the Americas,” Zócalo Public Square (June 6, 2022).
https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/06/06/how-latin-america-built-los-angeles/ideas/essay/
“Roads and Walls in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” Australian and New Zealand American
Studies Association Blog, October 2019.
https://anzasablog.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/roads-and-walls-in-the-u-s-mexico-borderlands/
“Roads and Walls in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” University of North Carolina Press Blog,
September 2019. https://uncpressblog.com/2019/09/18/jessica-m-kim-roads-and-walls-in-the-u-s-mexico-borderlands/
“Why Trump’s Wall will Fail,” University of North Carolina Press Blog, September 2019.
https://uncpressblog.com/2019/09/09/jessica-m-kim-why-trumps-wall-will-fail/
“Teaching California History Roundtable,” California History (November 2018): 8-21.
“Filming Pro-Patria: On the Road from Los Angeles to Mexico City,” Borderlands History
Blog, April 2017. https://borderlandshistory.org/2017/04/03/filming-pro-patria-on-the-road-from-los-angeles-to-mexico-city/
“Map Room: The Contours of Los Angeles and the 1932 Olympics,” California History,
(Summer 2015): 2-3.
“Foodscapes,” in Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin,
1940-1990, digital and print exhibition, Huntington Library, part of Pacific Standard
Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.: an initiative of the Getty, 2014.
http://pstpedison.com/kim.html
Book Reviews
Roundtable Review, Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs, by
Maria L. Quintana, in Passport: Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Review, forthcoming.
Review, Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City, by A. K. Sandoval-
Strausz, in Journal of American Ethnic History, forthcoming.
Review, In Pursuit of Utopia: Los Angeles in the Great Depression, by Errol Wayne Stevens, in
Pacific Historical Review, forthcoming.
Review, Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning, by Steven T.
Moga, in Pacific Historical Review, 2022.
Review, Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City, by Andrew J. Diamond,
in Pacific Historical Review, 2021.
Review, Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern
African to the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1880-1917, by Andrew Offenburger, in Diplomatic History, 2021.
Review, Migrant Longing: Letter Writing Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, by Miroslava
Chávez-García, in California History, Fall 2019.
Review, Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917, by Marne L.
Campbell, in Pacific Historical Review, Summer 2018.
Review, Where Texas Meets the Sea: Corpus Christi and Its History by Alan Lessoff, in
Pacific Historical Review, October 2016.
Review, Before L.A.: Race, Space and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 by
David Samuel Torres-Rouff and Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction by Stacey L. Smith, in Reviews in American History, September 2015.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Summer Research Fellowship, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2014-2022
Polished Apple Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring, CSUN, 2019
Research Grant, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2017
Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award, CSUN, 2015-2016
NEH Fellowship, “Bridging National Borders in North America,” at the Newberry Library, 2014
New Faculty Research Award, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2013-2014
Dissertation Research Award, USC-Huntington Institute on California and the West, 2011
Dissertation Research Award, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2011
Haynes Foundation Research Fellow, Huntington Library, 2010
Dissertation Research Award, Historical Society of Southern California, 2010
Kelterborn Merit Award, University of Southern California, 2009-2010
Roberta Foulke Research Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2008, 2010, 2011
College Graduate Merit Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2006-2012
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Talks
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, part of the series
“Retos históricos y actuales del norte de México y el sur-oeste de Estados Unidos,” June
2021.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, Autry National Center, March 2021.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, Chicano Studies Center, UCLA, May 2020 (canceled due to
COVID-19).
“Los Angeles, Empire, and Urban Landscapes,” keynote address, American Studies Research
Symposium, California State University, Fullerton, April 2020.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, Ontario Museum of Art and History, November 2019.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the
West/Huntington Library, November 2019.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, Museum of the San Fernando Valley, 2018.
“The Visual Legacy of the Mexican Revolution,” Museum of Latin American Art, June 2015.
“In Conversation with Jessica Kim,” Huntington Library, November 2014.
Academic Conferences
“Los Angeles: Roundtable,” presenter, Organization of American Historians, panel accepted,
April 2023.
“International Intrigue and Political Violence in the age of Pan-Americanism,” discussant,
Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, November 2021.
“American Empire and the Landscapes of Los Angeles,” paper presented, Organization of
American Historians, April 2021.
“Los Angeles: Investment,” paper presented, Society of Historians of American Foreign
Relations, June 2021.
“Transnational Latin American Politics in the 20th-Century United States West,” discussant,
Western History Association, October 2020.
“Enduring, Negotiating, Interrogating Liminality: Migrants and Immigrants at the Border, in
Detention, and in Agricultural Labor since 1882,” discussant, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, August 2020.
“Memorialization, Display, and the Archive: Mobilizing Alternative Racial Futures,” discussant,
American Studies Association, November 2019.
“Fiestas, Performance, and Resistance in Mexican American Communities,” discussant,
Western History Association, October 2019.
“Zines to Tap Water: Reimagining the History Classroom,” discussant, American
Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Meeting, August 2019.
“Form and Landscape: Los Angeles and Digital History,” paper presented, Western History
Association, November 2017.
“‘A Hard and Desperate Fight’: Race, Masculinity, and Private Property in the Los Angeles-
Mexico Borderlands,” paper presented, Western Association of Women Historians, April 2017.
“Water on the Border: Transnational and Environmental Perspectives on the History of the U.S.-
Mexico Borderlands,” discussant, Western History Association, October 2016.
“Californio Dreams: A Century of Exporting Fantasies and Utopias,” panel organizer and paper
presented, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, August 2016.
“One Hundred Years Since Columbus,” conference organizer and paper presented, Huntington
Library, June 2016.
“New Mexico, 1916: Villa and the Impact of the Mexican Revolution on US History and
Historiography,” paper presented, Organization of American Historians, April 2016.
“‘A Place of Great Importance’: American Expansionism, Mexican Investments, and Los
Angeles, 1829-1885,” paper presented, Western History Association, October 2015.
“Is There a Los Angeles School of Western History?” roundtable with Virginia Scharff, Stephen
Aron, William Deverell, John Mack Faragher, and Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Western History Association, October 2014.
“The City of Los Angeles vs. the Government of Mexico,” paper presented, American Historical
Association, Pacific Coast Branch, August 2014.
“Teaching Sustainability through Digital Los Angeles,” panel organizer and paper presented,
National Council on Public History, March 2014.
“From Spanish Past to Pacific Future: Region, Identity, and Tourism along the California and
Mexico Pacific Coast, 1920-1957,” paper presented, Western History Association, October 2013.
“Good Feelings and Commercial Ties: Forging Angeleno-Mexican Partnerships, 1874-1910,”
paper presented, Newberry Library Borderlands and Latino Studies Seminar, September
2013.
“Destiny of the West: Tourism, Leisure, and Reconnecting the Western Hemisphere,” paper
presented, Latin American Studies Association, May 2012.
“The Walrus, the Fox, and the Desert: City, Region, and Empire in Los Angeles and Mexico,
1898-1944,” paper presented, Western History Association, October 2011.
“Fortune and Misfortune in the Los Angeles-Mexico Borderlands, 1902-1920,” paper presented,
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference, June 2010.
“Imperial Los Angeles: Exploring the City’s Global Past, 1890-1930,” paper presented,
Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas Annual Conference, July
2009.
“Culture of Conquest: Panama, U.S. Travel Narratives, and Imagining a White Colonial Utopia,
1904-1914,” paper presented, Huntington-USC Institute for California and the West, May
2008.
“The Contested Nexus of Los Angeles Koreatown: Bohemianization as a Step to Capital
Restructuring,” paper presented with Kyeyoung Park, PhD, Association of Asian American Studies Annual Conference, 2005.
Guest Lectures and Teaching Presentations
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, History Department, California State University, Los Angeles,
November 2022.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, History Department, University of California, Riverside,
September 2022.
“History, Public History, and the Academe,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Getty
Multicultural Internship Program, August 2022.
Book Talk: Imperial Metropolis, History Department, University of Southern California, Spring
2020 and 2021.
“Los Angeles and Mexico,” Chicano Studies Department, University of California, Los Angeles,
February 2020.
“Graduate School and Beyond,” Getty Multicultural Internship Program, July 2019.
“California and the Nation,” History and Geography Project, University of California, Los
Angeles, July and October 2017.
“Los Angeles: 1848-1920,” History and Geography Project, University of California, Los
Angeles, July 2015.
“The U.S. West and Mexico,” Huntington Library, August 2015.
Interviews
“The Real Wild West,” long-form documentary interview, Autry National Center, September
2022.
Book Interview: Imperial Metropolis, long-form interview, New Books West/New Books
Podcast, September 2021.
“Imagined Wests,” Artbound television series, KCET, August 2021.
“Borderlands,” Lost LA television series, KCET, October 2017.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP PROJECTS
Producer and researcher, Western Edition Podcast, Huntington-USC Institute on California and
the West, 2021-present.
Contributor, Past Due: Report and Recommendations of the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office Civic
Memory Working Group, 2021.
https://civicmemory.la/
Member, City of Los Angeles Mayoral Commission on Civic Memory, 2019-2021.
Faculty Advisor, “Black Pobladores: The Founding of Los Angeles and its African Roots,” an
exhibit produced in partnership with CSUN students and El Pueblo Historical
Monument, City of Los Angeles, 2015-2016.
Project Manager and Curator, “Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los
Angeles Basin, 1940-1990,” a digital exhibit produced in partnership with the Huntington Library and the Getty Foundation, 2012-2013.
Contributor, “Los Angeles and Water: In Commemoration of the Los Angeles Aqueduct,”
primary source collection, 2012-2013.
Postdoctoral Associate, AHA-NEH Atlantic and Pacific Worlds Community College Seminar,
2012-2013.
Historical Advisor, Education Department, Museum of Latin American Art,
“An Introduction to Latin American History,” art and history installation, 2012-2013,
“MoLAA in the Classroom,” curriculum development, 2010-2013.
Coordinator, “Things I’d Like to Know about Los Angeles,” day-long public forum on future
trends in the study of Los Angeles, 2012.
Professional Development Instructor, Pasadena Unified School District, 2012
Topic: Teaching U.S. History (part of a NEH Teaching American History grant).
Archival Assistant, Western Manuscripts Collection, Huntington Library, 2009-2010.
Archival Assistant, Regional Special Collections, University of Southern California, 2007.
TEACHING
California State University, Northridge
History 271 United States Since 1865
History 371 Questions in American History Since the Civil War
History 396 Digital History
History 433 Public History
History 486A History of Los Angeles
History 481 Modern American Borders
History 488 California
History 494 Internship Program
History 497 Tourism and the American Past
History 498 Narrating the Past for the Present
History 548 History and Memory
History 594 Graduate Internship Program
History 596 Graduate Introduction to Public History
California State University, Los Angeles
History 459 Sexuality in the Americas
History 488 California History
History 489 History of Los Angeles
Pepperdine University
History 304 History of the American Peoples
History 326 California History
SERVICE
To the Discipline
Ray Allen Billington Book Prize Committee, Organization of American Historians, 2023-2024
Louise Pubols Public History Award, Western History Association, 2022-2023
Local Resource Committee (Chair), Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical
Association, 2022-2023
Program Committee, Western History Association, 2022-2023
Local Resource Committee, Organization of American Historians, 2022-2023
Program reviewer, American Studies Department, California State University, Fullerton, 2022
Advisory Board, H-CA, 2021-
Council, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, 2018-2021
Editorial Board, Pacific Historical Review, 2015-2021
Campus Liaison, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Annual
Conference, 2017
Reviewer
Oxford University Press, 2022
Public Historian, 2022
University of Nebraska Press, 2021
Diplomatic History, 2020
Pacific Historical Review, 2019
Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 2019
University of Arizona Press, 2017
California History, 2016-2019
Southern California Quarterly, 2016
Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2016
Journal of Latin American Studies, 2015
To the University, College, and Department
Member, Tenure-Track Position Search Committee, 2022-2023
Senator, Faculty Senate, CSUN 2021-2023
Member, Student Success Workgroup, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2019-
2020
Member, Academic Policy Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2019
Member, Climate Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2018-2019
Mentor, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CSUN, 2017-2018
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, History Department, CSUN
Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee, History Department, CSUN
Member, California Studies Committee, CSUN, 2015-
Member, Center for Southern California Studies, CSUN, 2015-
Member, Whitsett Committee, 2013-
REFERENCES
Dr. William Deverell
Professor
History Department
University of Southern California 3502 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0034
deverell@dornsife.usc.edu
(213) 740-1657
Dr. Benjamin Johnson
Professor/Series Editor, David J. Weber Series in New Borderlands History, University of North Carolina Press
Department of History
Loyola University, Chicago
1032 W. Sheridan Road Crown Center, 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60660
bjohnson25@luc.edu
(773) 508-3082
