Shana Bernstein Northwestern University Center for Legal Studies 620 Lincoln Ave. #205 Evanston, IL 60208 [email protected] 847-467-6850 Academic Employment 2019- present Director, Program in American Studies, Northwestern University 2014 - present Clinical Associate Professor, Legal Studies and American Studies, Weinberg College/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. Strawberry Fields Forever? A Consumer, Worker, and Environmental History of the Most Toxic, Profitable, and Unsustainable Crop in America (in process) 2. 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 Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 1 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, 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. “It’s Time for Regulatory Agencies to Start Putting Public Health ahead of Private Profit,” The Washington Post Made by History, June 17 2019. Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 2 2. “How the Spike in Hate Crimes is Forging Unlikely Alliances and Why Vulnerable Groups Should be Careful about Attempts to Divide Them,” The Washington Post Made By History, November 27, 2018. 3. “How to Use the Past to Fight for Your Rights Today,” CNN, January 23, 2017. 4. “Racist Atticus Finch Has a Lesson for Jews,” The Forward, July 27, 2015. 5. “The Third Shift: How Mom Became the Family’s Bodyguard” (with Kate Baldwin), Talking Points Memo, June 8, 2015. 6. “Big Business, Government, and Doubt,” The Hill, Congress Blog, April 6, 2015 7. “How Anti-Semitism in Modern America Could Fuel Cross-Racial Unity,” Talking Points Memo, March 13, 2015 8. “Not Just Kumbaya: Multiracial Coalitions Yield Pragmatic Results for the Common Good” (with Jennifer Richeson), American Prospect, February 18, 2015 9. “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 10. “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. Connie Y. Chiang, Nature Behind Barbed Wire: an Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration, in Immigration and Ethnic History (forthcoming) 2. Marc Dollinger, Black Power, Jewish Politics, in American Jewish History (forthcoming) 3. Max Krochmal, Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era, in Pacific Historical Review (October 2018) Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 3 4. Brian McCammack, Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago in Environmental History (October 2018) 5. Llana Barber, Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000, in American Historical Review (February 2018) 6. Marne L. Campbell, Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917, in Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2017) 7. Lila Corwin Berman, Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit, in American Historical Review (June 2016) 8. Allan W. Austin, Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950, in Quaker Studies (2016) 9. 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) 10. Kevin Carlos Blanton, George. I. Sánchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration, in Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2015) 11. Gordon Mantler, Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974, in American Historical Review (February 2014) 12. Patrick D. Lukens, A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights: FDR and the Controversy over “Whiteness,” in Journal of American Studies (May 2013) 13. 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) 14. Mark A. Weitz, The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case: Race Discrimination and Mexican-American Rights, in Pacific Historical Review (February 2012) 15. Neil Foley, Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity, in American Historical Review (December 2011) 16. Emilio Zamora, Claiming Rights and Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II, in Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2010) 17. Ellen M. Eisenberg, The First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and Japanese Removal during WWII, in American Jewish History (December 2009) Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 4 18. Scott Kurashige, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles, in Southern California Quarterly (Fall 2008) 19. Matthew C. Whitaker, Race Work: the Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West, Western Historical Quarterly (Spring 2007) 20. Martin Schiesl and Mark M. Dodge, eds., City of Promise: Race and Historical Change in Los Angeles, in Southern California Quarterly (Winter 2006/07) 21. Douglas Flamming, Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America, in Journal of Southern History (May 2006) Fellowships, Grants, Awards, and Honors 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) Shana Bernstein, Curriculum Vitae 5 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) John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Fellowship, Huntington Library (2000) Centennial Teaching Award, Stanford University (1999) Stanford History Department Fellowship (1996-2000) Phi