Shana Bernstein
Northwestern University Center for Legal Studies 620 Lincoln Ave. #205 Evanston, IL 60208 [email protected] 847-467-6850
Academic Employment
2014 - present Clinical Associate Professor, Center for Legal Studies, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University 2014 – present Clinical Associate Professor, Public-Private Interface Initiative, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University 2013 Chair, History Department, Southwestern University 2013 Visiting Associate Professor, History Department and American Studies Program, Northwestern University 2010 – 2014 Associate Professor (with tenure), History Department, Southwestern University 2004 – 2010 Assistant Professor, History Department, Southwestern University 2003 – 2004 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor in Latino Studies, History Department, Northwestern University
Education
2003 Ph.D., History, Stanford University 1998 M.A., History, Stanford University 1994 B.A., History and French, University of California, Berkeley, Highest Honors
Publications—Books
1. Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 2011). Reviewed in American Historical Review (Vol. 17:1, February 2012); American Jewish History (Vol. 99:1, January 2015); American Quarterly (Vol. 63:4, December 2011); Journal of American History (Vol. 99:2, September, 2012); Journal of African American History (Vol. 99:1-2, Winter-Spring, 2014); Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Vol. 42:3,
Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 1 Winter 2012); Journal for the Study of Radicalism (Vol. 7:2, Fall 2013); Journal of Urban History (Vol. 40:1, January 2014); Pacific Historical Review (Vol. 81:3, August 2012); Planning Perspectives (Vol. 27:2, March 2012); Social History (Vol. 37:2, Spring 2012); Western Historical Quarterly (Vol. 43: 2, Summer 2012).
Publications—Articles and Chapters
1. “Health Activism from the Bottom Up: Progressive Era Immigrant Chicagoans’ Views on Germ Theory, Environmental Health, and Class Inequality,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (April 2018)
2. “Interracial Activism in the Los Angeles Community Service Organization: Linking the World War II and Civil Rights Eras,” Pacific Historical Review vol. 80, no. 2 (May 2011)
3. “From the Southwest to the Nation: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in the Sunbelt Southwest,” in Michelle Nickerson and Darren Dochuk, eds., Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region in the American South and Southwest (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
4. “From Civic Defense to Civil Rights: the Growth of Jewish-American Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Los Angeles,” University of Southern California’s Casden Institute Journal, special volume on Jewish Los Angeles (Spring 2010)
5. “California Goes National: the Long 1950s,” chapter in William Deverell and David Igler, eds., The Blackwell Companion to California History (November 2008)
6. “From California to the Nation: Rethinking the History of 20th Century U.S. Civil Rights Struggles through a Mexican-American, and Multiracial, Lens,” Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, Vol. 18 (2007)
Publications—Media
1. “How to Use the Past to Fight for Your Rights Today,” CNN, January 23, 2017.
2. “Racist Atticus Finch Has a Lesson for Jews,” The Forward, July 27, 2015.
3. “The Third Shift: How Mom Became the Family’s Bodyguard” (with Kate Baldwin), Talking Points Memo, June 8, 2015.
Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 2 4. “Big Business, Government, and Doubt,” The Hill, Congress Blog, April 6, 2015
5. “How Anti-Semitism in Modern America Could Fuel Cross-Racial Unity,” Talking Points Memo, March 13, 2015
6. “Not Just Kumbaya: Multiracial Coalitions Yield Pragmatic Results for the Common Good” (with Jennifer Richeson), American Prospect, February 18, 2015
7. “What Caused My Cancer? Was it Bad Genes? Bad Luck? Or Was it the Toxins I Eat, Drink, Breathe, and Touch on a Regular Basis because the United States Has a Policy of Putting the Burden of Proof for Product Safety on the Consumer?” Pacific Standard, January 29, 2015
8. “Many Hands Joined Civil Rights Struggle: Other People on the Margins Fought along with Black Americans,” Austin American Statesman, June 29, 2014
Publications—Book Reviews
1. Max Krochmal, Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era, in Pacific Historical Review (forthcoming)
2. Brian McCammack, Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago in Environmental History (forthcoming)
3. Llana Barber, Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000, in American Historical Review (February 2018)
4. Marne L. Campbell, Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917, in Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2017)
5. Lila Corwin Berman, Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit, in American Historical Review (June 2016)
6. Allan W. Austin, Quaker 7. Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950, in Quaker Studies (2016)
8. Sonia Song-Ha Lee, Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City, in Social Service Review (March 2015)
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9. Kevin Carlos Blanton, George. I. Sánchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration, in Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2015)
10. Gordon Mantler, Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974, in American Historical Review (February 2014)
11. Patrick D. Lukens, A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights: FDR and the Controversy over “Whiteness,” in Journal of American Studies (May 2013)
12. Brian D. Behnken, Fighting their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas, in Pacific Historical Review (November 2012)
13. Mark A. Weitz, The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case: Race Discrimination and Mexican-American Rights, in Pacific Historical Review (February 2012)
14. Neil Foley, Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity, in American Historical Review (December 2011)
15. Emilio Zamora, Claiming Rights and Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II, in Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2010)
16. Ellen M. Eisenberg, The First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and Japanese Removal during WWII, in American Jewish History (December 2009)
17. Scott Kurashige, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, in Southern California Quarterly (Fall 2008)
18. Matthew C. Whitaker, Race Work: the Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West, Western Historical Quarterly (Spring 2007)
19. Martin Schiesl and Mark M. Dodge, eds., City of Promise: Race and Historical Change in Los Angeles, in Southern California Quarterly (Winter 2006/07)
20. Douglas Flamming, Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America, in Journal of Southern History (May 2006)
Fellowships, Grants, Awards, and Honors
Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 4 Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll Award Recipient, Northwestern University (2016 and 2015)
OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow, Northwestern University (2014-15)
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians (appointed 2012, reappointed 2015 and 2018)
Visiting Scholar, Newberry Library (2012-13)
Competitive Faculty Funds, Southwestern University (2013-14; 2012-13; 2011-12; 2010-11; 2009-10)
Cullen Faculty Research Grant, Southwestern University (2008-09; 2007-08; 2006- 07; 2005-06)
Brown, Jr. Research Fellowship, Southwestern University (2007-08)
University Junior Teaching Award Nominee, Southwestern University (April 2007)
Historical Society of Southern California/Haynes Research Grant (2006, 2002, 2000)
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of History, Northwestern University (2003-04; 2004-05 declined)
Jewish Community Endowment Fund Newhouse Dissertation Grant (2003, 2002, 2001, 2000)
Weter Fellowship, Department of History, Stanford University (2002-03)
Feinstein Center for American Jewish History Summer Fellowship (2002, 2001)
Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Teaching Fellow (2001-02; 2000-01 declined)
Stanford Center for Conflict and Negotiation Fellow, Stanford University (2001-02)
Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Fellowship (1999)
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Grant (2000-01)
Graduate Research Fund Summer Award, Stanford University (2000)
Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 5 John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Fellowship, Huntington Library (2000)
Centennial Teaching Award, Stanford University (1999)
Stanford History Department Fellowship (1996-2000)
Phi Beta Kappa, UC Berkeley (1994)
M. Meyer Scholarship, UC Berkeley (1994)
Conseil Général des Pyrenées-Atlantiques Fellowship for study in France (1992- 93)
Helen Ryle Scholarship, UC Berkeley (1992)
Invited Talks/Presentations
“Nazis, Red-Baiting, and Civil Rights: Jewish Americans as Interracial Activists in the Twentieth-Century West,” Boise, Idaho Department of Arts and History (February 2018)
“Immigration in the Progressive Era,” Onahan Elementary School (January 2016, February 2017, and February 2018).
Jews, civil rights coalitions, and whiteness, Hillel (undergraduates) Northwestern University (January 2017)
“Jewish Civil Rights Activism, Past and Present,” Hillel (faculty) Northwestern University (April 2016).
Respondent, Newberry Labor History Seminar New Book Symposium, G. William Domhoff’s The Myth of Liberal Ascendancy, Newberry Library (October 2014).
“Asian Exclusion in the Progressive Era,” Niles East high school AP U.S. History program (December 2013).
“Discussion of Twelve Years a Slave” with American Studies majors, Northwestern University (November 2013).
“Allies in the Struggle for Civil Rights: Mexican American and Jewish Relations in a Time of Change,” Chicano/Latino Studies Department and Program in Jewish Studies, California State University Long Beach (April 2013).
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Discussant, Newberry Seminar in Borderlands and Latino Studies, Newberry Library (March 2013).
“Nazis, Red-Baiting, and Civil Rights: Jewish Americans as Interracial Activists in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles,” University of Denver (October 2012).
“Immigration: The ‘Second Wave’ Reimagined,” lecture and discussion, Texas Humanities Institute, summer teacher program, University of Houston (June 2012).
“Nazis, Red-Baiting, and Civil Rights: Jewish Americans as Interracial Activists in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles,” Research Institute for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University (May 2012).
Undergraduate Lecture on Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles and Graduate Student Seminar Presentation of “The ‘Garbage Ladies’ of the Settlements: Environmental Justice Reform in Progressive-Era Chicago,” UT San Antonio (February 2012).
Discussion of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth- Century Los Angeles, Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora, Northwestern University (October 2011).
“From Civic Defense to Civil Rights: the Growth of Jewish-American Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Los Angeles,” Department of History and Jewish Studies, UC Santa Cruz (October 2011).
“Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement,” two day presentation/workshop at the Presidential Timeline Summer Teacher Institute, sponsored by the Department of Education and the National Archives/LBJ Archives, University of Texas, Austin (June 2011).
“Interracial Bridges: Civil Rights Activism in 20th Century Los Angeles,” Interdisciplinary Workshop on City, Society, Space, University of Chicago (January 2010).
“From the Southwest to the Nation: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in the Sunbelt Southwest,” Workshop on the Postwar Sunbelt, Huntington Library and Clements Center (July 2008, April 2009).
“Collaborating against Conservatism: Jewish-Mexican American Civil Rights Coalitions in Cold War Los Angeles,” “Latinos and Jews: a Conference on Historical and Contemporary Connections” Symposium, UC Irvine (January 2006). George Sánchez co-panelist, Vicki Ruiz comment.
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“California Dreaming: Multiracial Civil Rights Activism in Mid-Twentieth Century Los Angeles,” Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West Los Angeles Working Group, Huntington Library (November 2005).
“’Beyond the Melting Pot’: The Challenge of Becoming American,” “’At Home in Academia?’: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on American Identities” Symposium, Center for Jewish History, New York (May 2005).
Academic Conferences
Organization of American Historians, Sacramento (March 2018). Roundtable facilitator, “Movements for Change: What’s Worked?”
American Society of Environmental History Conference, Chicago (March 2017). Plenary Session Speaker, “Environmental Justice in Chicago and Beyond.”
Urban History Association Conference, Chicago (October 2016). Panel Chair and Comment, “The Fight for Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles, Post-1965.”
Organization of American Historians Conference, Providence (April 2016). Presented paper, “Environmental Justice in Progressive Era Chicago.”
Western History Association Conference, Portland (October 2015). Panel Chair and Comment, “Building Bridges and Climbing Walls into Urban and Suburban California: Race, Class, and Migration in the Late Twentieth Century.”
Organization of American Historians Conference, Atlanta (April 2014). Roundtable participant, “State of the Field: Race and the Cold War.”
American Society of Environmental History, San Francisco CA (March 2014). Presented paper, “The Garbage Ladies of the Settlements: Environmental Health in Progressive-Era Chicago.”
American Historical Association, Washington DC (January 2014). Chair, “Catholics, Racial Justice, and Reassessing Religion in the Long Civil Rights Movement.”
Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, San Diego (August 2012). Roundtable Panelist, “Race and Politics in Postwar California.”
Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 8 Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, Seattle (August 2011). Panel Chair and Comment, “Race, Labor, and Politics in Post-World War II California.”
American Studies Association, San Antonio (November 2010). Panel Chair and Comment, “Global Cold War Politics and Domestic Racial Ideologies.”
Western History Association, Denver (October 2009). Panel Chair, “Forging Federal Ties: Racial Community Building and the State in the Modern American West.”
Organization of American Historians Conference, New York City (March 2008). Presented paper, “Rethinking the History of U.S. Civil Rights Struggles during the Cold War through a Multiracial, Los Angeles Lens.”
Western History Association, St. Louis (October 2006). Invited Roundtable Panelist, “Comparative Perspectives on Mexican American Citizenship from Law, History and Cultural Studies.”
Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, Stanford University (August 2006). Presented paper, “Collaborating against Conservatism: Jewish- Mexican American Civil Rights Coalitions in Cold War Los Angeles.”
Organization of American Historians Conference, Washington D.C. (April 2006). Presented paper, “Collaborating against Conservatism: Jewish-Mexican American Civil Rights Coalitions in Cold War Los Angeles.”
Texas Area Cold War History Organization, UT Austin (April 2005). Presenter, “Cold Warriors of a Different Stripe: Multiracial Civil Rights in Early Cold War Los Angeles.”
Western Association of Women Historians, Phoenix (April 2005). Panel Chair, “Cultures of Activism: Women, Race, and Political Consciousness, 1920-1960.”
Urban History Association Conference, Milwaukee (October 2004). Co-organized panel, “Race and Rights in the Urban West: Intergroup Activism and Discord in Postwar Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.” Presented paper, “’To Drive out Communism We Must Strike at Conditions which Foster its Growth’: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Cold War Los Angeles.”
Organization of American Historians Conference, Boston (March 2004). Presented paper, “Grass Roots Activists in a Global Web: The International Impact of World War II and the Cold War on Civil Rights in Los Angeles.”
Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 9 Latina/o Research Initiative Forum, Northwestern University (March 2004). Presented paper, “Grass Roots Activists in a Global Web: Mexican American Civil Rights in the International Arena."
Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, Honolulu (August 2003). Co-organized panel, “California Race Relations in a Global Web: Social Justice in the Gold Rush, World War II, and the Cold War.” Presented paper, “Grass Roots Activists in a Global Web: Civil Rights in the International Arena in World War II and the Cold War.”
Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Los Angeles (December 2002). Presented paper, “Grass Roots Activists in a Global Web: Jewish Civil Rights Activists in Los Angeles.”
Western Association of Women Historians Conference, Huntington Library (June 2000). Presented paper, “Branching Out: the Expanding Conception of Community among Jewish American Club Women, 1935-1950.”
Phi Theta Kappa Undergraduate Conference, UC Berkeley (May 1995). Presented paper, “Culture Contact, Self-Portrayal, and Self-Conception: the Nineteenth Century World Exhibitions.”
Teaching
Northwestern University:
• Senior Thesis Seminar (American Studies Program) • American Immigration (Legal Studies Program and History Department) • U.S. Health: Illness and Inequality (American Studies Program) • Japanese American “Internment” (Legal Studies Program and Asian American Studies Program) • U.S. West (History Department) • Comparative Race and Ethnicity (American Studies Program and Legal Studies Program) • First Year Seminar (Legal Studies Program) • Beyond Black and White in the Brown Era: Latinos and Asian Americans in Multiracial 20th Century America (History Department) • “The Second Wave”: Latino, Asian and Eastern European Immigrants in America, 1880-1965 (History Department)
Southwestern University:
Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 10 • Advanced Entry Seminar (transfer students) • First Year Interdisciplinary Seminar, “Travel, Tourism, and Encountering ‘the Other’” • History Research Seminar • The U.S. West • Race and Ethnicity in the 20th Century United States, (cross-listed in Feminist Studies) • Immigration History [cross-listed in Feminist Studies) • U.S. History before 1865 • U.S. History since 1865
Stanford University:
• Senior Thesis Seminar, Co-Instructor, Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (cross-listed in Asian, Native, and African American Studies) • TA Development, Mentor, History Department • Junior Pre-Honors Seminar, Instructor, Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (cross-listed in Asian, Native, and African American Studies) • Graduate Student Workshop, Coordinator and Facilitator, Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity • Graduate Workshop: Developing a Sources and Methods Courses, Co- Instructor, History Department • Teaching Consultant, Center for Teaching and Learning • The United States in the Asia-Pacific Century, Assistant Instructor, Sophomore College Program • “Margins” and “Mainstreams”: Race, Gender, and the Formation of American Identity in California, 1900-1950, Instructor, History Department (cross-listed Feminist Studies and Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity)
Research and Related Employment
Managing Editor, Journal of Jewish Social Studies, Stanford (2002-2003)
Consultant, Foundation for a College Education, East Palo Alto, California (2001)
Museum Exhibit Historian, The Jewish Bay Area in the 40’s, The Israel at 50 Jubilee Opening, Congregation Sherith Israel, SF, California (1997)
Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 11 Academic/Professional Service
• Steering Committee Member, Organization of Women Faculty, Northwestern University (2016-present) • Search Committee Chair, JMC Postdoctoral Search, Center for Legal Studies, Northwestern (2016-2017) • Thesis Advisor, American Studies Thesis, Northwestern University (2014-15) • Workshop Organizer, History Major Career Panel, Southwestern University (Spring 2014) • Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians (Fall 2012 – present; reappointed in 2015 and 2018) • Referee, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (Winter 2018) • Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collections and Reference Resources Grant Program, Washington DC (Fall 2013) • Journal Manuscript Referee, Journal of American History (April 2018), Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (November 2013), Journal of American Ethnic History (May 2013), Pacific Historical Review (December 2015, November 2011), Western Historical Quarterly (July 2013, May 2010), History Compass Online (October 2005; December 2013) • Book Proposal Referee, UNC Press (November 2013), Routledge (August 2013) • Book Manuscript Referee, University of Pennsylvania Press (2011), University of North Carolina Press (2013 and 2016), University of California Press (2015) • Race and Ethnic Studies Committee, Southwestern (2013 - 2014) • Teaching Awards Committee, Southwestern (2012 - 2014) • Chair, Department of History, Southwestern (Spring 2013) • Shearn Humanities Writing Prize Committee Member, Southwestern (2013) • Committee for Intercultural Programs, Southwestern (2010 - 2012) • Sexual Misconduct Intake Advisor, Southwestern (2011- 2012) • Diversity Enrichment Committee, Southwestern (2010-2011) • American Studies Advisory Committee, Southwestern (2007-2008) • Student Affairs Council, Southwestern (2007-2008) • Hatton Sumners Scholarship Committee, Southwestern (2006-2008) • Admissions Committee, Southwestern (Spring 2007) • Academic Standards Committee, Southwestern (2005-2007) • Graduate Student Representative to Haas Center for Public Service Faculty Steering Committee, Stanford (1999-2000) • Graduate Student Representative to University Judicial Advisory Board, Stanford (1999-2000) • Student Representative to Graduate Policy Committee, History Department, Stanford (1999-2000) • Workshop Co-Coordinator, History Department, Stanford:
Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 12 - A Historian’s Workshop: Comparative and Regional History (1999) - Alternative Careers for History Ph.D.’s (1998) • History Graduate Student Association Representative; History Department, Stanford (1998-1999) • Graduate Student Admissions Committee Representative, History Department, Stanford (1999)
Language Skills
• French: Advanced • Spanish: Fair • German: Some
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