GREG HISE Department of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) 4505 S

GREG HISE Department of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) 4505 S. Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, NV 89154-5020 [email protected] (702) 895-1012

EDUCATION 1987-92 PhD, History of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley 1980-84 A.B. Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT AND APPOINTMENTS 2008- Professor, Department of History, UNLV 1998-2008 Associate Professor, School of Policy, Planning, and Development (SPPD), University of Southern California (USC) Joint appointments, Departments of History and of Geography Affiliate, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity (PASE) 1992-98 Assistant Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning, USC

AFFILIATIONS WITH RESEARCH CENTERS AND INSTITUTIONS 2005- Research Associate in History, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 2001-02 Senior Fellow, Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA), Rutgers University 1997-98 Visiting Associate, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology 1996-97 Visiting Scholar, Department of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles

AWARDS 2011 Laurence Gerckens Prize, Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) (for sustained teaching excellence and educational leadership) 2002 Donald Pflueger Book Award, Historical Society of Southern California (for Magnetic Los Angeles) 2001 SPPD Professor of the Year (undergraduate program) 1998 Spiro Kostof Book Prize for Architecture and Urbanism, Society of Architectural Historians (for Magnetic Los Angeles) 1993 John Reps Prize, SACRPH (best dissertation, 1991-93)

FELLOWSHIPS 2013 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, The Huntington Library 2012 Black Mountain Institute: An International Center for Creative Writers and Scholars, UNLV 2007 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, The Huntington Library 2001 Research Fellow, USC Lusk Center 1999 John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Fellow, The Huntington Library 1999 Faculty Fellowship Award, The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation (for Land of Sunshine) 1999 “Jumpstart” technology grant, USC Libraries 1996 Fellow, Southern California Studies Center (SC2), USC 1996 John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Fellow, The Huntington Library 1995 Research Fellow, USC Lusk Center 1991 Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington Library 1990-91 Kenneth E. and Dorothy Hill Fellowship, The Bancroft Library 1990-91 Beeke-Levy Research Fellowship, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library

GRANTS AND FUNDED RESEARCH 2012-13 “Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940-1990,” Co-Principal Investigator with William Deverell, The Getty Research Institute ($100,000) 2010-11 “Property Rights and Civil Rights,” Principal Investigator, The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation ($39,000) 2006-08 “A New History of Los Angeles,” Co-Principal Investigator with William Deverell, The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation ($29,000) 2006-07 “Creating the Grid: Infrastructure and the Production of Location,” Principal Investigator, USC Lusk Center ($13,000) 2004-06 “Industrial Los Angeles: Social-Science Informed Photographic Documentation,” Co-Principal Investigator with Martin Krieger, The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation ($101,000) 2002-04 “Sheltering the Other Los Angeles,” Principal Investigator with Todd Gish (doctoral student researcher), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ($25,000) 1998-99 James Irvine Foundation grant, Encyclopedia of Southern California ($27,500) 1997 "Historical Records Survey," Principal Investigator with Patrick Wirtz (doctoral student researcher), Newhall Land and Farming Company ($20,000) 1994-95 "Invented Streets," Co-Principal Investigator with Tridib Banerjee, Genevieve Giuliano, and David C. Sloane, International Council of Shopping Centers ($15,000)

PUBLICATIONS Books 2000 Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (co-author with William Deverell), Berkeley: University of California Press 1997 Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (Paperback edition, 1999) Chapter 2 reprinted as “The Minimum House,” in The American Cities and Technology Reader: Wilderness to the Wired City, Gerrylynn K. Roberts, ed., London: Routledge, 1999: 126-38

Edited books 2010 A Companion to Los Angeles (with William Deverell), Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell Publishing (Paperback edition, 2013) 2005 Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (with William Deverell), Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (Paperback edition, 2006) 1996 Rethinking Los Angeles (with Michael J. Dear and H. Eric Schockman), Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications

Edited journal special issues 1999 “Orange Empires,” Pacific Historical Review 67/2 (May) (with William Deverell and David C. Sloane)

Refereed journal articles 2011 “Los Angeles 1900,” (with William Deverell) Victorian Review 36/1: 49-53 2009 “Whither the Region?” Journal of Planning History 8/4: 1-12 2009 “Industry, Political Alliances and the Regulation of Urban Space in Los Angeles,” Urban History 36/3: 473-97 2008 “Neighbourhood: A Keyword for Urbanism,” International Journal of Neighbourhood Renewal 1/1: 5-10 2008 “Architecture as State Building: A Challenge to the Field,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67/2: 173-77 2007 "Identity and Social Distance in Los Angeles," Landscape Journal 26/1: 45-60 2006 “Sixty Stories in Search of a City,” California History 83/3: 8-27 Excerpted in arcCA 6/2: (June 2006) 2006 "Teaching Planners History," Journal of Planning History 5/4: 271-79 2004 "Border City: Race and Social Distance in Los Angeles," American Quarterly 56/3 (Sept.): 545-58 Reprinted in Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures, Raul Homero Villa and George J. Sanchez, eds., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005: 47-60 2001 "’Nature's Workshop’: Industry and Urban Expansion in Southern California, 1900-1950," Journal of Historical Geography 27/2 (Jan.): 74-92 Reprinted in Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe, Robert Lewis, ed., Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004: 178-99 2001 “’The Art Political’ and Los Angeles Park Planning,” Planning Perspectives 16/4 (Oct.): 1-3 1999 “Orange Empires: Comparing Miami and Los Angeles,” (with William Deverell and David C. Sloane), Pacific Historical Review 67/2 (May): 145-52 1993 "Home Building and Industrial Decentralization in Los Angeles: The Roots of the Postwar Urban Region," Journal of Urban History 19/2 (Feb.): 95-125 Reprinted in Planning the Twentieth-Century American City, Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher Silver, eds., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996: 240-61 1993 "Building the World of Tomorrow: Regional Visions, Modern Community Housing and America's Postwar Urban Expansion," Center: A Journal for Architecture in America 8: 52-61

Contributions to books 2014 “Representing Cities in a Digital Age,” (with William Deverell) in Joseph Heathcott, ed. American Urbanism, London: Routledge 2012 “The Afterlife of a Master Plan,” (with William Deverell) in David C. Sloane, ed. Planning Los Angeles, Chicago: American Planning Association: 204-12 2010 “Situating Stories: What Has Been Said About Nature and the Built Environment,” in Deverell and Hise, eds. A Companion to Los Angeles, Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell Publishing: 393-420 2010 “Neighborhood,” in Christian Topalov, et al, eds., Trésor des mots de la ville (A Treasury of City Words), Paris: Robert Laffont: 815-20 2007 “City Planning in Los Angeles,” (with Todd Gish) in Tom Sitton, ed. The Development of Los Angeles Government, An Institutional History 1850-2000, Los Angeles: Los Angeles Historical Society: 329-69 2006 “Un Ville dans Un Jardin: Nature et Metropole en Californie du Sud” ("The City in

3 A Garden: Metropolitan Nature in Southern California"), in Augustin Berque, et.al. eds., Le Ville Insoutenable, Paris: Belin: 194-207 2005 "The Metropolitan Nature of Los Angeles," (with William Deverell) in Deverell and Hise, eds., Land of Sunshine, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press: 1-12 2001 "Industry and Imaginative Geographies," in William Deverell and Tom Sitton, eds., Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s, Berkeley: University of California Press: 13-44 2001 “Industry and the Landscape of Social Reform," in Michael J. Dear ed., From Chicago to Los Angeles: Making Sense of Urban Theory, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications: 95-130 1996 "Rethinking Los Angeles," (with Michael J. Dear and H. Eric Schockman), in Dear et al., Rethinking Los Angeles, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications: 1-14 1995 "The Airplane and the Garden City: Regional Transformations during World War II," in Donald Albrecht, ed., World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed a Nation, Cambridge: MIT Press: 144-83 Excerpted in Architecture California 17 (May, 1995): 47-54 1995 "Building Design as Social Art: The Public Architecture of William Wurster, 1935- 1950," in Marc Treib, ed., An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster, Berkeley: University of California Press: 138-63 1995 "From Roadside Camps to `Garden' Homes: Housing and Community Planning for California's Migrant Workforce, 1935-41," in Elizabeth Cromley and Carter L. Hudgins, eds., Gender, Race and Shelter: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture V, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press: 243-58

Manuscripts in progress Book mss Property Rights and Civil Rights: Loren Miller’s Quest for Open Housing

DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP Exhibition curating 2013 Co-Project Director, Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940-1990 (pstp-edison.com) Print media: Los Angeles Times, The Guardian (UK), Daily Mail (UK), XTRA 16/2: 5-25 Electronic: Architizer, Delirious LA, Flavorwire, Gizmodo, LA Observed, RealClearArts, CAA.reviews

Online publications 2013 “Scale,” Form and Landscape (pstp-edison.com/hise/) 2008 “Space, States, and Architectural History,” Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) (http://www.inha.fr/colloques/index.php) 2005 “What is Implied, What is Unspoken When We Reconceptualize?” History of the Built Environment, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (http://ww.fas.harvard.edu/~cwc/builtenv/Paper%20PDFs/Hise.pdf)

EDITORIAL BOARDS 2012- Southern California Quarterly 2002- Journal of Planning History 2006- Public Works Management & Policy

2006-08 Board of Managing Editors, American Quarterly

BOOK REVIEWS 2010 Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San Francisco, Philip Dreyfus. Nevada Historical Quarterly 2005 Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles, Jared Orsi. Western Historical Quarterly 36/2 (Summer) 2003 The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism, Adam Rome. Planning Perspectives 18/4 (Oct.) 2003 Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840-1900, Maria E. Montoya. Enterprise and Society 4/3 (Sept.): 567-69 2003 Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy. Journal of Regional Science 43/2 (May): 417-18 2001 The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940, Max Page. The Public Historian 23/2: 100-02 2001 The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present, Martin V. Melosi. Journal of American History 88/4 (March): 1538 2000 California and the Fictions of Capital, George Henderson. Enterprise and Society 1/3 (Sept.) 1998 Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles, William Fulton. Journal of American History 86/1 (June): 165 1998 City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950, Richard Longstreth. Planning Perspectives 14/1 (Jan.) and Historical Geography 27 1998 The Writings of Clarence S. Stein: Architect of the Planned Community, Kermit Carlyle Parsons. Vernacular Architecture Newsletter 82 (Winter) 1997 "City Slices" review essay in Journal of Urban History 24/1 (Nov): 111-19 1995 The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West, Carl Abbott. Journal of the American Planning Association 61 (Winter) 1994 The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890- 1920, Mansel G. Blackford. Journal of the American Planning Association 60 (Autumn) 1994 Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown, Barbara M. Kelly. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 53 (Dec.): 473-75

RESEARCH REPORTS 2002 “Neighborhood: A Key Concept for Development and Planning,” Lusk Center Research Brief (4 pp.) 2001 “Industry and Urbanization in Southern California, 1900-1950,” Lusk Center Research Brief (4 pp.) 1996 "Invented and Reinvented Streets: Designing the New Shopping Experience," with Tridib Banerjee, Genevieve Giuliano, and David Sloane, Lusk Review 2/1 (Summer): 18-30 1995 "Aviation and Western Metropolitan Development," Lusk Center Working Paper (12 pp.) 1995 "Invented Streets: New Retail Formats," with Tridib Banerjee, Genevieve Giuliano, and David C. Sloane, Lusk Center Research Report (25 pp.)

PUBLIC ESSAYS 2013 “A Closer Look: Your Grandfather’s Electric Car,” Huntington Frontiers (Spring/Summer): 6-7 2004 “Industry and Urbanization in Southern California,” Real Estate Review 32/4 (Winter): 9-14 2001 “Consider the Big Picture in Creating L.A.’s Open Spaces,” Los Angeles Times, Opinion section (Sunday, May 6) 2000 “Public Transit in Los Angeles,” (Il trasporto pubblico a Los Angeles) Casabella 683 (Nov): 26-9 1996 “Los Angeles: 1920,” Westways: The Magazine for Southern California 88/7

LECTURES AND CONFERENCES Invited presentations 2014 “’Rats in the Palm Trees:’ Covenants and Color Lines in California,” Autry Western History Workshop (January) 2013 “Pedagogy: Teaching the Built Environment,” SACRPH roundtable (October) 2013 “’Rats in the Palm Trees:’ Why California Led a National Movement for Open Housing,” Huntington Society of Fellows (August) 2013 “Grand Visions, or, What’s the Highest and Best Use for Bunker Hill?” CSUD Symposium, Cornell University (April) http://aap.cornell.edu/events/csud/csud13/schedule13.cfm 2012 “Regulating Urban Environments,” Preservation = Sustainability Symposium (December) 2012 “Liberals and the Left in Metropolitan History,” LA History/Metro Studies Group roundtable (February) 2010 “Zoning Los Angeles: Regulation and Durable Distinctions in Urban Space,” The Huntington Library (March) 2009 “Green Community Planning: A History,” National Building Museum (October) 2009 “Public Works as Public Space,” Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urbanism (August) 2009 “Berlin, Los Angeles, and the Uses of History,” Aedes Gallery (Berlin) (July) 2009 “Landscape as History,” Keynote address, Historical Society of Southern California annual conference (April) 2008 “How We Talk About Los Angeles and Why This Matters,” Los Angeles Public Library (November) http://www.la36.org/show/aloud-20/how_we_talk_about_los_angeles3640 2008 “Going Global: Big Projects and Grand Plans,” Las Vegas Valley Book Festival (November) 2008 “History and Historic Preservation,” Roundtable for EDAW Intern Program 2008 “Planning Southern California: Why Region Still Matters,” Research and Collections Speaker, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (March) 2007 “Prior Visions for the Los Angeles Watershed,” USC Watershed Forum (September) 2007 “Whither the Region?” Presidential Address, Society for American City and Regional Planning History (October) 2007 “Looking at Los Angeles,” Conference keynote, Lamda Alpha International (October) 2006 “Urban Keywords: How Certain Terms Have Shaped Our Understanding of Cities,” F. Ross Johnson/Connaught Distinguished Speakers Series, University 6

of Toronto (March) 2005 "Sixty Myths in Search of a City," Haynes Foundation Lecture, The Huntington Library (May) 2005 "The Future of Built Environment Studies," Roundtable at the conference "Reconceptualizing the History of the Built Environment in North America," Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University (April) 2005 “Los Angeles: City or Anti-City?” Keynote address, Congress for the New Urbanism (June) 2005 "The State in Architectural History," Plenary address for the conference "Changing Boundaries – Architectural History in Transition," Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) and Society of Architectural Historians (September) 2004 “’Mexicans and that sort of thing’: Race and Social Distance in Los Angeles,” for the conference “Constructing Race: The Built Environment, Minoritization, and Racism in the United States,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (March) 2004 “Metropolitan Nature: Housing, the Environment, and Urbanization in Southern California,” for the colloquium “Les Trois Sources de La Ville-Campagne,” Centre Cerisy-la-Salle, France (September) 2004 "Race and Social Distance in Los Angeles," Research and Collections Speaker, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (December) 2003 “Regional Planning in Los Angeles,” for the “Land Use Planning Then and Now” symposium, Program for the Study of the North American West, Stanford University (May) 2003 “Metropolitan Nature: Regulating Land Use and the Environment in Los Angeles,” keynote address for a Haynes Foundation conference “A Sustainable Future? Environmental Patterns and the Los Angeles Past,” California Institute of Technology (September) 2003 “Mapping the History of Los Angeles,” California Map Society (February) 2003 “Who Built Postwar Los Angeles?” Historical Society of Southern California (October) 2003 “Whose Global City? A Look at LA in the New Century,” panelist, Mark Taper Forum (June) 2003 “Teaching Planning History,” panelist, SACRPH (October) 2003 “New Cities : New Media,” panelist, USC School of Architecture (January) 2002 “Suburbanization as Urbanization,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst (February) 2002 “Preserving a Legacy: Los Angeles’ Postwar Suburbs,” Getty Conservation Institute (February) 2002 “The Natural Environment,” Los Angeles History conference, The Huntington Library (May) 2002 “Type or Prototype? Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles,” Columbia Seminar on the City (March) 2002 “Comparative Urbanism,” panelist, UHA (October) 2001 “Eden by Design,” Keynote address, UHA Annual Luncheon (May) 2001 “Urban Design in Los Angeles,” Cal State Los Angeles (February) 2000 “Eden by Design: Planning, Politics, and Power in Los Angeles,” Taubman College Lecture Series, University of Michigan (November) 2000 “Manufacturing Eden: Industry and Urban Expansion in Southern California,” California State University, Fullerton (March) 2000 “Planning Los Angeles,” Southwest Area Planning Council (Los Angeles County)

(August) 2000 “Los Angeles in 2050,” Marie Northrop Lecture series, Los Angeles City Historical Society (June) 2000 “Back to the Future,” Comment for Temple Hoyne Buell lecture series, Columbia University (September) 1998 "`Nature's Workshop': Industry, the Environment, and Planning in Southern California," Loehman Lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (November) 1997 "Industry and Imaginative Geographies in 1920s Los Angeles," The American City lecture series, California Institute of Technology (May) 1997 "Nature's Workshop," The Industrialization of the Los Angeles Region conference, The Huntington Library (April) 1997 "Regional City or Urban Region? Planning and Postwar Development in the San Fernando Valley," Valley Pioneer Lecture, California State University, Northridge (October) 1997 "Magnetic Los Angeles," Lamda Alpha, Orange County and Los Angeles Chapters (July) 1997 Plenary address, Emerging Opportunities in a Changing World conference, Urban Land Institute (September) 1996 "Planning the Postwar Metropolis: Precedents, Principles, Patterns," College of Environmental Design lecture series, University of California, Berkeley (October) 1996 "Constructing `Nature's Workshop': Industrial Districts and Urban Expansion in Southern California," California Studies Seminar, University of California, Berkeley (October) 1996 "Suburbanization as Urbanization," Metropolitan Landscape Symposium, Automobile Club of Southern California (April) 1995 "The Airplane and the Garden City," Urban Studies Seminar, U.C. San Diego (October) 1995 "Housing for the Homefront: Migration, Industrial Location, and Modern Community Planning in California, 1920-1950," The Impact of World War II on California conference, Huntington Library (March) 1994 "Architecture, Planning and Ethics," Rethinking Los Angeles symposium, USC (March) 1991 “Defense Policy, Community Builders, and Blue-Collar Suburbs in Los Angeles," Los Angeles History Group, Huntington Library (November) 1991 "The Aircraft Industry in Los Angeles," Munro Seminar, California Institute of Technology (November)

Conference presentations 2013 “Born Global: Demographic Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles,” National Genealogical Society 2012 “Open Housing, ‘Total Integration,’ and California’s Contributions to Civil Rights Struggles,” Urban History Association (UHA) 2012 “Architecture and States: Scales and Cases,” European Architectural History Network (EAHN) 2011 “Property Rights and Civil Rights in California,” SACRPH 2011 Panelist, “What is Metropolitan History,” SACRPH 2010 Panelist, “Does Region Still Matter,” UHA 2008 “The ‘Bust of the (Eighteen) Nineties’: or What Might be Learned from a Downturn,” UHA

2008 “Municipal Enterprise in Los Angeles,” Business History Conference 2008 “Scales of Knowledge,” Pacific Coast Branch/American Historical Association 2008 “Photographing Power: Southern California Edison and Southern California,” Pacific Coast Branch/American Historical Association 2008 “Municipal Enterprise in Los Angeles,” Vernacular Architecture Forum 2005 "Globalism on the Ground: Architecture, Landscape, and Identity in Los Angeles," Society of Architectural Historians 2002 “Forget the Hype, Los Angeles as a Type (not prototype),” UHA 2001 “Los Angeles: A History,” Organization of American Historians 2000 “Public Land, Civic Patrimony: Legacies of Spanish Tenure in Nineteenth- Century Los Angeles,” Society of Architectural Historians 2000 “Ciudad to City: Continuity and Change in the Urban Landscape of Nineteenth- Century Los Angeles,” Vernacular Architecture Forum 2000 “Grand Theory, Real Places,” American Studies Association 2000 “Learning from the Past,” American Planning Association, Region VI 1999 “The Nature of Power in 1920s Los Angeles,” SACRPH 1998 "The Politics of Nature," Association of American Geographers 1996 "Suburbanization as Urbanization," Association of American Geographers 1996 "`What Kind of Pittsburgh is Los Angeles?’" Vernacular Architecture Forum 1995 "Cities and Flight: `Airline Space-Time' and Western Metropolitan Development," The American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch 1995 "Aviation and Western Metropolitan Development," SACRPH 1994 "Working-Class Home Ownership in Los Angeles, 1930-1950," Association of American Geographers 1994 "Sixty Suburbs in Search of Community: Mass Builders and Working-Class Home Ownership in Los Angeles, 1930-1950," American Studies Association 1994 "Regional Transformations in Western Cities During World War II," Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 1993 "The `Garden Metropolis:' Community Builders and Post-World War II Urban Expansion in the United States," Society of Architectural Historians 1993 "Building an American Dream: Los Angeles and the Garden City Ideal," The American Historical Association /Pacific Coast Branch 1993 "Constructing a Garden City in Los Angeles," California Historical Society 1992 "Living in the 'Town of Tomorrow' Today," Center for American Architecture and Design, University of Texas, Austin 1991 "Home Building and Industrial Decentralization in Los Angeles" Joint International Conference of the Planning History Group and the Urban History Association 1990 "Communitarian Ideals and Technocratic Reform: Conflicting Visions for the FSA Migratory Labor Camp Program in California, 1935-41," Society of Architectural Historians 1990 "From Roadside Camps to ‘Garden’ Homes," Vernacular Architecture Forum 1989 "Housing and Community Planning for California's Migrant Workforce, 1935- 1941," Nevada Historical Society

Session chair and comment 2013 “The Physical City: Social Change and Urban Space,” SACRPH 2009 Open Session, Society of Architectural Historians 2006 Symposium moderator and commentator, “Shaping Southern California: Transportation and Water,” The Huntington Library 9

2004 Summative comment for the conference "The Entertainment Industry: City Building and the Development of Southern California," The Huntington Library 2003 “Space and the Built Environment,” Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures, American Quarterly and The Huntington Library 2003 “Urban Re-Readings,” New Cities : New Media, USC School of Architecture 2002 “Industrial Meat,” Industrializing Organisms Conference, Rutgers, New Brunswick 2001 “The Politics of Planning,” SACRPH 1998 "Learning from Los Angeles," Society of Architectural Historians (session organizer) 1998 "Constructing the Urban, Remaking the Natural," Western History Association 1997 "Planning in the American West," SACRPH 1993 "Shopping Shapes the City," SACRPH (session co-organizer)

Guest lectures 2013 “The Dollar in a Dark Hand,” Legal History seminar, UNLV 2012 “Civil Rights Seen From the West,” Department of History, UCLA 2012 “Property Rights and Civil Rights,” Legal History seminar, UNLV 2000 “History, Memory, Places,” Department of Geography, UCLA 1997 "Cities and Suburbs," Department of Urban Planning, UCLA 1995 "Southern California Urbanisms," Department of History, USC 1993 "Alternative Los Angeles," Department of Geography, USC 1992 "The City-Building Process in Los Angeles," School of Architecture, USC 1990 "New Deal Rural Landscapes," College of Environmental Design, U.C. Berkeley

RADIO, TELEVISION, PRINT MEDIA 2013 “Los Angeles River Bridges,” on camera interview for documentary film (in process) 2011 “Historian of the Suburban Dream” (profile) Vegas Seven Magazine 2006 “Eye on LA” (KABC), on camera discussion of Los Angeles economy 2003 “Which Way LA?” (KCRW), discussion of sustainability in Los Angeles 2002 “Art History is Moving to the Suburbs” feature in Los Angeles Times Magazine 2001 “The Book Show with Patt Marrison” (KCET) public television segment on Eden by Design 2000 “Lakewood at Fifty,” Channel 31 (Lakewood, CA) documentary 2000 “Life and Times” (KCET), discussion of Eden by Design 2000 “Airtalk” (KPCC), interview and call-in discussion of Eden by Design 1999 “Talk of the Nation” (National Public Radio), panel discussion of suburbs 1998 “Airtalk” (KPCC), panel discussion of “Orange Empires” conference 1998 “Airtalk” (KPCC), interview and call-in discussion of Magnetic Los Angeles 1996 NBC Nightly News (Los Angeles affiliate), commentary on popular perceptions of Los Angeles

ADVISING AND CONSULTING Museums and Public History 2014- Advisor, “Ten Model Towns that Changed America,” Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) documentary 2011 Advisor, “Los Angeles Architecture, 1940-1990,” The Getty Research Institute 2010 Reviewer, NEH Panel for “Media Makers” development and production grants 2009 Advisor, “Laboratory for Living: Architecture of the Everyday in Southern 10

California,” University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara 2008-11 Advisor, “Whitewashed Adobe,” Chasing Light Pictures, LLC (four-part PBS documentary) 2007-10 Advisor, “On Shifting Ground,” Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (permanent exhibit examining human-nature interaction in southern California) 2007-09 Advisor, “Green Communities,” National Building Museum 2007-08 Advisor, “Photography in Los Angeles,” The Huntington Library 2007 Advisor, Writer’s Workshop, Center Theatre Group (Los Angeles) 2003-04 Advisor, “Building America,” National Building Museum (permanent exhibit) 2001 Advisor, The Autry Museum (content and design of permanent exhibit) 1999 Advisor, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), "Made in California, 1900-2000" 1995 Advisor, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "The Houses of William Wurster" 1994 Advisor, National Building Museum, "World War II and the American Dream" (temporary exhibit)

Professional Consulting 2009 Consultant, “Digital Special Collections Project,” California Digital Library 2007-08 Consultant, “Historic Context Statement and Field Guide,” City of Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources and The Getty Conservation Institute (“Survey LA”) 2003 Advisor, Committee for the California History Plan, California Department of Parks and Recreation 2002 Participant, ULI Mayor’s Forum “Bringing Community Back to the City” 2001-02 Advisor, KCET (PBS) “California: A Thematic History” 2001 Visiting Scholar, Center for History Social Science Education, Cal State University 1998 Advisor, "Reframing Suburbia" conference, Departments of Architecture and Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota 1995 Advisor, Automobile Club of Southern California symposium, "Metropolitan Landscape"

NATIONAL BOARDS AND COMMITTEES 2010-11 Member, Spiro Kostof Book Prize Committee, Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 2009 Chair, Nominating Committee, Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) 2003-09 President-Elect, President, Past-President, SACRPH 2003-05 Member, Board of Directors, UHA 2003 Chair, book prize committee, UHA 1995-2001 Member, Board of Directors, SACRPH 2000 Member, Spiro Kostof Book Prize Committee, SAH 1999 Member, Lewis Mumford Book Prize Committee, SACRPH 1997 Member, Nominations Committee, Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) 1993-96 Member, Board of Directors, VAF 1995 Member, Theodora Kimball Hubbard Prize Committee, SACRPH

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING 2013 Co-organizer, Public Programs to compliment Form and Landscape 2012 Co-organizer, “Things I’d Like to Know About Los Angeles,” Huntington Library 2009-10 Member, Program Committee, UHA

2007-08 Member, Program Committee, UHA 2006 Member, Evolution of Urban Form special track committee, American Planning Association (APA) 2006 Co-organizer, “Models and Stories: Explaining the Long Processes of Cities,” Lusk Research Center (USC) 2004-05 Chair, Program Committee, SACRPH 2002-04 Steering Committee, Los Angeles History Research Group 2003 Member, Program Committee, California Studies 1999 Referee, American Collegiate Schools of Architecture 1998 Co-Organizer, "Orange Empires," Huntington Library, Getty Research Institute, and Southern California Studies Center (USC) 1998 Member, Program Committee, Western History Association 1997 Member, Program Committee, SACRPH 1995 Member, Program Committee, VAF 1995 Referee, American Collegiate Schools of Architecture 1994 Chair, Program Committee, VAF 1993-94 Co-Organizer, "Rethinking Los Angeles," USC

MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS 2013 University of Nevada Press 2012 University of Chicago Press 2011 Boom: A Journal of California 2010 Southern California Quarterly, Huntington-University of California Press, Yale University Press 2007 University of Pittsburgh Press, University of Minnesota Press 2006 Pacific Historical Review 2005 Environment and Planning: A 2004 University of Pittsburgh Press, University of Chicago Press, Pacific Historical Review, Journal of American History 2003 University of California Press, Urban History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 2002 Routledge, Guilford, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Temple University Press 2001 University of California Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, California History 2000 University of Pittsburgh Press, Journal of Urban History, Housing Policy Debate 1999 University of California Press, Pacific Historical Review, Housing Policy Debate 1998 University of California Press, Journal of the American Planning Association 1997 Johns Hopkins University Press 1996 University of California Press, Journal of Architectural Education, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, VIII (University of Tennessee Press) 1995 Journal of Planning Education, University of Kentucky Press, Urban Studies 1994 Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Architectural Education 1993 University of New Mexico Press, Wadsworth Publishing Company

ACADEMIC SERVICE UNLV 2009-11 Member, Advisory Committee, Solar and Renewable Energy Minor USC 2006 Member, EDGE-SBE Advisory Committee

2004-05 Member, Executive Committee, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity 2004 Faculty Senate representative for SPPD 2002-03 Member, Academic Policies and Procedures Committee (Faculty Senate) 1994-97 Member, Executive Committee, Information System for Los Angeles (ISLA) 1995-96 Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee 1992-94 Member, Academic Integrity Review Panel

UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS USC 2005-07 Co-Director, Cultural Landscape Study Group, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW)

DEPARTMENT / SCHOOL APPOINTMENTS UNLV 2013-14 Member, Search Committee (for tenure-track appointment in European history) 2011-14 Member, Appointments Committee 2011-14 Member, Graduate Committee 2009-10 Member, Personnel Committee 2008-09 Member, Curriculum Committee USC 2007-08 Chair, Faculty Council Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee 2005-06 Member, Faculty Council Member, Undergraduate Committee Member, Community Economic Development Search Committee Member, IT Classroom Committee 2005 Member, Third-year Review Committee (Redfearn) 2003-04 Member, Ferraro Chair Search Committee 2002-03 Member, Faculty Council Member, Doctoral Committee 2000-01 Member, Doctoral Committee Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member, Land Use Planning Search Committee 1999-00 Member, Faculty Council Member, Undergraduate Committee, Doctoral Committee, Vision Committee 1997-98 Chair, Undergraduate Committee Member, Environment and Building Committee 1996-97 Member, Doctoral Committee 1995-97 Chair, Urban Design Committee 1994-05 Co-Organizer, Lewis Mumford Prize in Urban and Planning History 1992-94 Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member, Urban Design Committee

COURSES TAUGHT UNLV (* designates a course I developed) Undergraduate (400/600 designation is for undergraduate/graduate) HIST 251: Introduction to Historical Methods HIST 406B/606B: American West Since 1849 HIST 434/634: Cities in American History HIST 451: Capstone Research Seminar

HIST 496/696: Philosophy of History *HIST 498/698: Los Angeles History Graduate *HIST 730: Colloquium on Race Relations in American Cities HIST 730: Colloquium in Urban History HIST 731: Seminar in Urban History *HIST 731: Seminar on Race Relations in American Cities *HIST 734: Colloquium on Pacific World Cities HIST 740g: Historiography: U.S. Cultural and Intellectual – Theory and Method HIST 750: Methods for Public History USC Undergraduate PPD 100m: Los Angeles, The Enduring Pueblo PLDV 150: Emergence of the American City PLDV 275: Environment and Behavior *PLDV 315: Urban Sleuths: Exploring People and Places in Cities PLDV 355: Introduction to Planning PLDV 414: Introduction to Physical and Spatial Design *PPD 485: History of Planning and Development PLDV 491: Thesis Seminar Graduate *PPD 530: Historical Analysis of Urban Form *PLUS 599: Why Place Matters *PLUS 599: Spatiality: Theory and Method *PLUS 599: Comparative Urban Analysis: Chicago and Los Angeles *PLUS 599: Suburbs: Structure and Culture on the Urban Edge *PLUS 599: Topics in Urban History PLUS 601: Planning Theory MRED 674: Planning and Development History PPD 708: Qualitative Methods *PPD 714: Urban Development

GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISEMENT UNLV Dissertation Committees 6 current (2 as Chair) 2 completed Qualifying Exam Committees (in addition to above) 3 completed Thesis Committees 5 completed (2 as Chair)

USC Dissertation Committees 22 completed (3 as Chair) Qualifying Exam Committees (in addition to above) 12 completed Thesis Committees 8 completed (2 as Chair) 14

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE (Architecture) 1987-88 Michael Pyatok Associates 1985-87 Donald Dommer Associates 1982-85 Hirshen Gamill Trumbo Architects