Curriculum Vitae

Professor of History Emeritus                            

San Francisco State University                                                                              

1600 Holloway Ave.                                            

San Francisco, CA 94132                                    

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, American Civilization, 1969

A.M. University of Pennsylvania, American Civilization, 1966

Doctoral student in American History, University of Pittsburgh,1964-65

M.A. San Francisco State College, History, 1964

B.A. San Francisco State College, History, 1963  Phi Beta Kappa

U C Berkeley History Department Honors Program, 1960-61

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2018 Fulbright Professor of American History, University of the West, Timisoara, Romania.

2017 Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award “for a sustained series of contributions which have fundamentally animated the research of others besides being significant in their own right over a long career” from the American Catholic Historical Association. 

2016 Catholic Press award for Best Feature Article in a scholarly journal for my November 2015 article in American Catholic Studies, " 'Peace with Justice': Bishop Mark J. Hurley and the San Francisco State College Strike, 1968-1969."

2015-2016 John E. McGinty Distinguished Chair in History, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI.

2014 San Francisco Museum and Historical Society Award of Merit for contributions to teaching and writing about the history of San Francisco.

2008-2009 László Orzágh Chair in American Studies, (Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer Award) University of Pécs, Hungary

The Webb-Smith Essay Competition Award (History of the American West), 2004

Faculty Merit Award & Sabbatical Leave, 1999

Performance Salary Step Award, San Francisco State, 1996

Faculty Research Grant, San Francisco State, 1996

Rockefeller Foundation Grant for "San Francisco, the Politics of Inclusion"

        Exhibit and Symposium, San Francisco Main Public Library, 1996-1997

Sabbatical Leave, San Francisco State, 1993

Faculty Research Grant, San Francisco State, 1991

Merit Award, San Francisco State, 1990

Faculty Research Grant, San Francisco State, 1988

Merit Award, San Francisco State, 1988

Faculty Research Fellowship, San Francisco State, 1987

Merit Award, San Francisco State, 1985

Sabbatical Leave, San Francisco State, 1985

NEH Summer Seminar for College Faculty, U C, Berkeley, 1984

California Council for the Humanities Grant for San Francisco

        History program at the San Francisco County Fair, 1984

Fulbright Professor, American Studies Centre

        Polytechnic of Central London (Now: University of Westminster), 1978-79

Faculty Research Grant, San Francisco State, 1976-77

Sabbatical Leave, San Francisco State, 1975-1976

Faculty Research Grant, San Francisco State, 1971-72

NDEA Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1965-67

Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 1964-65

Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Chapter, San Francisco State

Honors List, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-61

History Honors Program, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-61

Newhouse Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 1960

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2018, Spring Semester.  Fulbright Professor of American History, University of the West, Timisoara, Romania..

American History since the Civil War, Social Movements and Civil Rights in U. S. History

Sept. 2015 -- May 2016.  John E. McGinty Distinguished Chair in History, Salve Regina University,

Newport RI.  U.S. Civil Rights Movement, University Seminar on the 1920s, 1930s, and World War II.

Sept. 2008 – May 2009 László Orzágh Chair in American Studies, University of Pécs, Hungary

American History Survey, American Thought and Culture, American Identities.

Spring 2005 - 2015 . Visiting Professor, History Department, Mills College

American Thought and Culture, Religion and American Culture, U.S. Civil Rights Movement

since 1941, American Diplomatic History, U.S. 1919 to 1945, U.S. since 1945, California History

U.S. History Survey I and II

Sept. 1968- 2006. Instructor to Professor, San Francisco State, History, Urban Studies, Humanities, and Social Science Department courses.

Courses I initiated at San Francisco State

Religion and American Culture

American Thought and Culture, Colonial Era to Present

Politics and Society in American History

Dynamics of the American City (History and Urban Studies)

History of the United States since 1945

Social History of the United States

Alternative Urban Futures (History and Urban Studies)

San Francisco Cultural History

Comparative Labor History

Business and Culture (NEXA Program)

Other courses taught at San Francisco State and Mills College

California History

U. S. Civil Rights Movement, 1941 to the Present

U.S. Labor and Working Class History since 1877

History of the United States, 1917-1945

Religion and American Culture

History of the United States, 1877-1916

Survey of United States History to 1865

Survey of United States History Since 1865

Social Perspectives on American Culture

Introduction to Urban Studies

History as a Field of Knowledge (the only required M.A. course at SF State)

Additional Teaching Experience

Sept 1978 - June 1979. Senior Fulbright Professor, American Studies Centre, University of Westminster, London (formerly the Central Polytechnic), 1978-79. U.S. Politics and Society, American Urban History, Comparative Urban Policy.

Sept. 1975-June 1976. Visiting Professor (sabbatical leave from SF State), American Studies Centre, London. U.S. Politics and Society.

June 1966 – August 1967. Instructor, History, Rutgers University, Camden New Jersey. Survey of Western Civilization I and II.

September 1964 - April 1965. Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh. U.S. History Survey.

Jan. 1964 – Aug. 1964. Teaching Assistant, Peace Corps Training Program & History Dept., SF State

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Associate Chair, Department of History. Designed and successfully implemented new Modern World History concentration in the graduate program of the department.

Coordinator, American Studies Program, San Francisco State.

I designed the curriculum of this interdisciplinary program as it now operates, with both a regional and a social and cultural history emphasis.

September 1967 - August 1968. History and Social Science Coordinator, Curriculum Resources Group, Institute for Services to Education, Newton & Cambridge, Massachusetts (main office in Washington, DC).

I was responsible for supervising and evaluating the work of the 25 history faculty in thirteen black colleges in the South that participated in the Thirteen College Curriculum Program. Position included supervision of writing and editing the curriculum, organizing and managing conferences of the teachers, on-site consulting, and coordination with grantors in the federal government and private foundations, and grant proposal writing. I returned to the Bay Area to accept a tenure track position at SFSU.

COMMITTEE WORK

Department of History: Hiring Committee (served five terms as chair), Promotions Committee, Retention and Tenure Subcommittee, Elections Committee, Curriculum Committee, Ad Hoc Committee on Credential Major (chair).

School of Behavioral and Social Sciences: Dean Search Committee, Sabbatical Leave Committee, Curriculum and HRTP Committees of the Urban Studies Program, Outside member of Geography Department Promotions Committee, Faculty Research Panel (chair), Liberal Studies Task Force (drafted successful proposal for the first liberal studies course), Ad Hoc Committee on an Urban Archives (wrote first draft of committee proposal), Bay Area Social Science Teachers Conference, (organizing committee).

University: Basic Skills Assessment Project Pilot Program, American Studies Program Advisory Council, Academic Freedom Committee, Long Range Planning Commission, Academic Senate (member of Curriculum Review and Approval Committee that successfully proposed University’s current "Cultural and Ethnic Diversity" General Education requirement).

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Member of Board of Editors, Pacific Historical Review, 1988 -1991

Book Review Editor, H-California, the Online Network for California History, 1999-2003

BOOK SERIES EDITOR

The Contemporary United States: Series Co Editor with Christopher Brookeman.

A nine book series published by Palgrave/Macmillan in the US and the UK.

My book, Social Change in the US is part of this series.

I commissioned and exercised editorial responsibility for the following six works:

Manning Marable, Race, Reform and Rebellion The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990, originally published in 1984, revised & expanded editions published in 1991 and 2007.

Samuel Rosenberg, American Economic Development Since 1945: Growth, Decline and Rejuvenation, 2003.

Patrick Renshaw, American Labour since World War II, published in 1991.

Rochelle Gatlin, American Women Since 1945, published in 1988.

Michael Bradshaw, Regions and Regionalism in the United States, published in 1988.

Kenneth Fox, Metropolitan America: Urban Life in the United States, 1945-1980, published in 1986.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Patriots, a Novel. Berkeley: Carleton Street Publications, 2023.

Traitors, a Novel. Berkeley: Carleton Street Publications, 2022.

Coit Tower, A Novel of San Francisco. Berkeley: Carleton Street Publications, 2022.

Baptized on the Fourth of July, A Catholic Boyhood in San Francisco.  Berkeley: Carleton Street Publications, 2017 and 2021.

Church and State in the City:  Catholics and Politics in 20th Century San Francisco.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013.

"For Both Cross and Flag": Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010.

Social Change in the United States, 1945-1983, London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1985; New York: Schocken Books, 1985. Paperback edition, 1988.

"A balanced and comprehensive survey of recent American social historiography." History (UK)

"An impressive study." Kyklos: International Review for Social Science

With Robert Cherny and Kieran Taylor, American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and American Political Culture, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. I was co-editor, drafted the introduction, and authored a chapter on Catholic activism and the labor movement.

With Robert Cherny, San Francisco: 1865-1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development, , Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Paperback edition, 1987.

"A major achievement. Issel and Cherny have set the historiographical agenda for studying San Francisco politics." Choice

With Robert Cherny, San Francisco: Presidio, Port and Pacific Metropolis, 1776-1980, San Francisco: Boyd and Fraser, 1981

Chapters in Books

"FIGHTING WORDS: HOW WHITE POWER LOCALISM UNDID GREAT SOCIETY LIBERALISM AND PAVED THE WAY FOR THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY," in Ideology, Identity, and the US: Crossroads, Freeways, Collisions, Edited by Eduard Vlad, Carmen-Adina Ciugureanu and Nicoleta Stanca,  Berlin: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2020. 

"The First Amendment and the Politics of Broadcasting: The Rise and Fall of the Fairness Doctrine," in Les Constitutions : des révolutions à l’épreuve du temps en Europe et aux États-Unis, Constitutions: On-going Revolutions in Europe and the United States, edited by Marie-Elisabeth BAUDOIN and Marie BOLTON, Editions du Centre Michel de L’Hospital, Paris : Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence, 2017.

"The Priesthood of the Layman: Catholic Action in the Archdiocese of San Francisco," in Empowering the People of God: Catholic Action before and after Vatican II, edited by Mary Beth Connolly and Jeremy Bonner, Fordham University Press, 2013.

"’For Both Cross and Flag’: Catholic Action in Northern California during the 1930s," in A Rosary of Hidden Voices: Catholicism in the American West, edited by Roberto Trevino, Texas A & M Press, 2007.

"’A Stern Struggle’: Catholic Activism and San Francisco Labor, 1932-1958" in American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and American Political Culture, edited by William Issel, Robert Cherny and Kerry Taylor, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004.

"Humanity is One Great Family: Inter-faith Cooperation between Catholics and Jews in the San Francisco Civil Rights Campaign, 1940-1960" in California Jews edited by Marc Dollinger and Ava Kahn, Brandeis University Press, 2003.

"New Deal and World War II Origins of San Francisco’s Postwar Political Culture," in The Way We Really Were: Everyday Life in California During World War II, edited by Roger W. Lotchin, University of Illinois Press, 1999.

"California and the Military-Industrial Complex" in Regions and Regionalism in the United States: Past and Present, London: PCL American Studies Centre, 1984.

"Approaches from History and Sociology," in Approaches to Teaching American Studies: Report of the Second Conference on Curricular Aspects of American Studies at Secondary Schools in Europe, in Peter Funke, ed., Bielefield: German Association of American Studies, 1980.

"A Nation of Immigrants: The People of America," in Romania and America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Bucharest: The American Library of the U.S. Embassy, 1979.

"Modernization in Philadelphia School Reform, 1882-1905," in Education in American History: The Social Issues, edited by Michael B. Katz, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973.

Articles in Refereed Journals

"Forgotten Classics in American Catholicism -- The Emergence of Liberal Catholicism in America, by Robert Cross" in American Catholic Studies (Summer 2018) 

"Peace with Justice:" Bishop Mark J. Hurley and the San Francisco State College Strike," in American Catholic Studies, (Fall 2015)

"Liberal and Conservative Visions in U.S. Politics since 1945: Cultural Politics, the Politics of Inclusion, and Two California Cases," in Siecles, 37 (2013) http://siecles.revues.org/1156

"'A Different Era':  Julia Gorman Porter's San Francisco Liberalism," in The Argonaut, winter 2008.

Lawrence McAndrews, What They Wished For: Catholics and the Presidents, 1960-2004, U.S. Catholic Historian, 2015.

Sascha Rice, California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown, a Documentary Film, Southern California Quarterly, 2014. 

Robert Fogelson, Downtown, Journal of American History, Dec. 2002.

Richard Longstreth, The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941, American Historical Review, June. 2001.

Gray Brechin, Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, California History, Spring 2001.

Steven J. Ross, Working Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America, in Pacific Historical Review, 2000.

Stephen J. McGovern, the Politics of Downtown Development: Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Pacific Historical Review, 2000.

Richard Longstreth, From City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, in Town Planning Review (UK), 1998.

Terrence Emmons, Alleged Sex and Threatened Violence: Bishop Vladimir, Dr. Russel, and the Russians in San Francisco, in American Historical Review, October 1998.

Eric H. Monkkonen, The Local State, in Planning Perspectives, July 1997.

Philip Ethington, The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900 in Pacific Historical Review, 1996

Albert Broussard, Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954, in American Historical Review, October 1994.

David Ward and Olivier Zunz, The Landscape of Modernity: Essays on New York City, 1900-1940, Journal of American History, Sept. 1993.

Roger Lotchin, Fortress California: 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Fall 1993.

Richard DeLeon, Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991, in Pacific Historical Review, Feb. 1994.

John M. Findlay, Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940, in California History, Fall 1993.

William Mullins, The Depression and the Urban West Coast, in American Historical Review, April 1992.

Mark Foster, Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West, in American Historical Review, April 1991.

David Emmons, The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in and American Mining Town in History, Summer 1990.

Erik Monkkonen, America Becomes Urban in History, August, 1989.

Terrence McDonald, The Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy, in California History, September 1987.

Amy Bridges, A City in the Republic: New York City and the Origins of Ante-bellum Machine Politics, in The Journal of American Studies (UK), April 1986.

Peter Hare, A Woman's Quest for Science: Elsie Clews Parsons, in History: Reviews of New Books, Sept./Oct. 1985.

Robert Senkewicz, Vigilantes in Gold Rush San Francisco, in Review, The Northern California Magazine of Books, Art and Music, San Francisco Chronicle, April 1985.

Burton Benedict et al, The Anthropology of World's Fairs, San Francisco's Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915, in The Pacific Historian, Fall 1984.

Charles R. Morris, A Time of Passion: America 1960 - 1980 in Review, The Northern California Magazine of Books, Art & Music, San Francisco Chronicle, May 27, 1984.

Irving Louis Horowitz, C. Wright Mills: An American Utopian. in The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 25, 1984.

Steven C. Levi, Committee of Vigilance: The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Law and Order Committee in History, Reviews of New Books, November/December 1983.

M. Christine Boyer, Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning in History, Reviews of New Books, 1984.

David U. Gerstel, Paradise Incorporated: Synanon, a Personal Account, in The Pacific Historian, Spring 1983.

Harvey J. Graff, The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth Century City, in American Historical Review, December 1980.

Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920, in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 1979.

James B. Gilbert, Work Without Salvation: America's Intellectuals and Industrial Alienation, in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 1978.

Herbert G. Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom and Lawrence W. Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness in The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Oct. 13, 1977.

Selwyn Troen, The Public and the Schools: Shaping the St. Louis System in History, March 1976.

Hugh Hawkins, Between Harvard and America History, March 1973.

Michael Kammen, ed. What is the Good of History: Selected Letters of Carl Becker, 1900- 1945, in History, Nov./Dec. 1973.

Paul K. Kress, Social Science and the Idea of Process, in American Historical Review, October 1972.

Michael B. Katz, The Irony of Early School Reform, in Historical Methods Newsletter, June 1969.

PAPERS, LECTURES, CONSULTING (selected list)

February 15-16, 2024. "Judicial Independence Reconsidered: Social Movements and American Constitutionalism, 1922 - 2022." International Conference on "Blind Justice, Judges, and Constitutions" at the School of Law, Clermont Auvergne University, France.

Fall, 2019. Lectures on American politics in Timisoara and Cluj, Romania.

October 5, 2018. "Fighting Words: Black Power and the Language of American Freedom in the Sixties," Romanian American Association for American Studies conference, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania.

September 8, 2018. The Kevin Starr Memorial Lecture, University of San Francisco, "Peace with Justice" -- Bishop Mark J. Hurley and the San Francisco State College Strike.

February -- June 2018. Guest lectures in Brasov and Bucharest, and two keynote addresses at American Studies and American History conferences in Timisoara, in connection with my Fulbright Professor position at the University of the West in Timisoara, Romania.

September 2017. Lecture, "The Anglo-American History Collaborative: A Human Rights Initiative in the Carter years and its Legacy," at the Constitution Day Conference, San Francisco State University.

June 2017.  Lecture, "A Special Relationship? The Anglo-American U.S. History Collaborative, 1973 -- 1986," at St. Clare's University, Oxford, England.

May 2017. Lecture, "Peace With Justice" -- The Untold Story of Bishop Mark J. Hurley and the Strike at San Francisco State College, at the California Studies Seminar, UC Berkeley.

November 2016.  Public Lecture, "How the Republicans used White Populist Conservatism to Limit the Civil Rights Movement, from Nixon to Trump," at the Conference on Republicans, Democracy, and Power"

at the Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

April 2016.  Organized Panel, "The Great Society at 50: A Reassessment" at the Biennial Conference of the European Association of American Studies, Constanta, Romania; Paper presentation on "Lyndon Johnson and the Progress of Racial Justice in America."

April 2016. Keynote Lecture, " 'A Desecration of My Rights as an American Citizen': Transnational Rivalries and the Domestic Security State in World War II," 

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. 

March 2016.  Panel Discussion, "Justice and Mercy: Race, Class, and Dilemmas of Criminal Justice in the United States Today."  I organized and moderated this campus and community forum, featuring scholars from California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, as one of Salve Regina University's programs associated with the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.

Feb. 2016.  Public Lecture, "The Great Society at 50: Lyndon B. Johnson and the Progress of Racial Justice in America," Joshua B. Stein Work in Progress Lecture, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI.

November 2015. Public Lecture, "Peace with Justice: Bishop Mark J. Hurley, the Black Power Movement, and Racial Justice in the 1960s," at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI.

May 2015.  Panelist, "Labor in San Francisco, Before and After 1915," one of the events associated with the 100th Anniversary of the Panama Pacific International Exposition programs at the California Historical Society, San Francisco.

September 2014.  Comment at the session on "Peculiarities of the West: German American Communities in California, 1880 -- 1960, at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Kansas City, Missouri.

August 2014.  Public Lecture, "Catholic Power and the Right to the City: The San Francisco LGBT Struggle for Freedom Reconsidered, at the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco.

May 2014.  Plenary Lecture: "Dorothy Bryant, Gus Lee, Aimee Lieu, and Me: Novels, Memoirs, and History in American Studies Today," at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Association for American Studies, Budapest, Hungary.

January 2014.  Co-organizer and commentator at the session on "Catholics and the Long Civil Rights Movement" at the American Historical Association annual conference, Washington, D.C.

November 2013.  Paper on "The Vatican in the Golden State" Catholic Discourse and Political Practice in California" at the Conference on "Rhetoric and Political Discourse in the United States, Historical, Contemporary and Theoretical Approaches to US Rhetoric, at the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands and Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

October 2013.  "The Archbishop and the Gaels: How Catholic Action Shaped 20th Century San Francisco," a public lecture at St. Mary's College of California, Moraga, CA.

August 2013.  Chair and commentator at the session on "Moving Out from the Cities" at the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch annual conference, Denver, CO.

May 2013.  Paper on "The First Amendment and American Broadcasting: The Rise and Fall of the Fairness Doctrine," at the "Constitutions: Ongoing Revolutions in the US and Europe" international conference at the School of Law, University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

January 2013.  Panelist, "Twentieth Century Catholic Lives" session of the American Catholic Historical Association Conference, New Orleans.  Presented a paper on "The Untold Story of Bishop Mark Hurley's Role in the Settlement of the San Francisco State College Strike in 1969."

November 2012.  Public lectures in Budapest and Pecs, Hungary on "The Presidential Election of 2012: New Perspectives on the Role of Cultural Politics in Presidential Elections."

October 2012.  Paper on Religion, Business, and Politics in San Francisco, 1890-1980, at the "Defining the Public Interest Session of the Sixth Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, New York City.

October 2012.  Commentator at the session on "Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Economic Development of Northern California," sponsored by the German Historical Institute, at the Western History Association annual conference, Denver, CO.  

June 2012. Paper on "Cultural Politics, Conservatism and Direct Democracy in California,"at the "Direct Democracy in the United States and Europe" international conference at Blaise Pascal University and University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

May and June 2012.  Participant in two conferences in Budapest, Hungary, commemorating 90 years of U.S. -- Hungarian diplomatic relations and 20 years of the Fulbright Commission.

Various dates, 2010 and 2011.  Book talks and lectures in connection with the publication of For Both Cross and Flag, including public lectures at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, New York City, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, and St. Mary's College of California, Orinda.

November 2010. Panelist, "Urban Foundation Myths" session of the Urban History Association Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. Presented a paper on "The Myth of the General Strike in San Francisco."

Summer 2010. Participant in the three week "Religion and War in American History" seminar, convened by Prof. Harry Stout of Yale University, at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  .

June 2010. Panelist, "War, Religion, and Ethnicity" session of the Historical Association Conference, Washington, D.C. Presented a paper on the role of religion and ethnicity in National Security Politics in World War II.

Sept. 2009. Panelist, "The 1934 Strike and its Legacy" on KQED FM Forum program, Labor Day.

Sept. 2009. Lecture, Children's Hospital and Research Center, Oakland, Orientation Program for new interns, Department of Psychiatry, "Oakland and Alameda County: An Urban Society and Culture in Historical Perspective."

June 2009. Panelist, Evening Symposium at SPUR (San Francisco Urban Planning and Research Association), "The Reformed City: Progressivism in the Wake of Disaster"

July 2009. Lecture, Lunchtime Forum at SPUR, "From Class War to Class Coalition, 1934-1960."

Sept. 2008 – August 2009. Lectures at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest; Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest; University of Szeged; University of Pannonia, Veszprém; University of Pécs. Panelist and Chair in sessions of the Hungarian Association for American Studies and the Hungarian Society for the Study of English. Public lectures at the American Corner in Pécs.

April 2008. Lecture, Docent Training Program, Oakland Museum of California, "The 1946 Oakland General Strike."

Feb 2008. Organized session "Enemies at the Gates"? On the politics of relocation of European war refugees in the US after World War II at the Seventh European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon.

November 2007. Lecture "Contested City, San Francisco 1896-1911: Lived Experience, Biography, History," at the "1906 and Beyond: Mayor Taylor’s Administration" Program, Main Public Library, San Francisco Civic Center.

Fall 2006 – Spring 2007. One of the two historian consultants hired to write the historical content for the master plan for the proposed Museum of San Francisco History at the Old Mint in San Francisco. The master plan was submitted by Christopher Chadbourne & Associates to the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society in February 2007.  member of the 13 person working group of the 35 member community-based Storyline Committee charged with overseeing development of the master plan.

March 2006. Paper on "Bishop Hugh Donohoe and the Catholic Action Cadre in Northern California," at the Sixth European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam.

March 2006. Paper on Catholic Action in Northern California at the Conference on Reassessing the Role of Religion in the American West, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

November 2005. Paper on "Religion, Ethnicity and Loyalty Investigations in World War II California," at the annual meeting of the American Italian Historical Association, Los Angeles, California.

August 2005. Paper on "Religion and Politics: Continuities and Change" in the session on "Looking Back at the 2004 U.S. Elections, " at the Second World Conference of the International American Studies Association, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

August 2005. Organized session on "Race Relations, Ethnicity, and Politics in Recent California History" and presented a paper on the recent historiography of California race relations during World War II and the Cold War, at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

March 2004. Organized session on "Political Manifestations of Faith-Based Activism in Comparative Perspective" and presented a paper on Catholics and Politics in Modern California History at the Fifth Biennial European Social Science History Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin.

November 2003. Presented opening address and moderated program on "The Ten Most Controversial Public Policy Decisions in San Francisco History" sponsored by Leadership San Francisco, an affiliate of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.

November 2003. Presented talk based on my recent publications on Catholic and Jewish cooperation in the Civil Rights campaign at meeting of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association.

August 2003. Chair and commentator for session on New Approaches to the Role of Race and Ethnicity in California Politics in the mid-twentieth century at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Honolulu.

July 2003. Lecture on Catholics and the Labor Movement for the University of San Francisco conference commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

May 2003. Paper on Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in California during the 1940s and 1950s, at the Pacific Northwest Labor Studies Association meeting, Seattle, Washington.

April 2003. Paper on Religion and Politics in California at the national conference on New Directions in the Study of Religion in American Culture sponsored by the New England American Studies Association, Hartford, Connecticut.

June 2002. Paper on Catholic Action during the New Deal, at the "Beyond the New Deal" Conference organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on North America, University of Paris VII, June 6-7, 2002.

November 2001. Paper on Joseph L. Alioto and the Demise of Democratic Party Liberalism in Urban Politics, at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 15-18, 2001.

April 2001. Paper on Jewish and Catholic participation in the early civil rights movement (1930s to the 1950s) in California, at the "California Jews: History, Politics, and Culture" Symposium at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, April 22.

April 2000. Participant at a three-day symposium at the Presidio of San Francisco, convened by the National Park Service and the Presidio Trust to develop program concepts that will be used as the Presidio completes its transition from its military past to its community-focused future.

April 2000. Paper, "Catholic Action on the Political and Cultural Fronts in Northern California during the 1930s," twenty-fifth Annual Conference of the British Association for American Studies, University of Wales, Swansea.

February 2000. Lecture, "‘A Stern Struggle’: Catholic Activism and San Francisco Labor, 1934-1958," Distinguished Labor History Lecture, Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco, CA.

October 1999. Lecture, "San Francisco’s Interfaith Campaign for Civil Rights from the Forties to the Sixties," Swig Judaic Studies Program, University of San Francisco.

May 1999. Paper, "Julia Gorman Porter and Urban Housing Reform from the Thirties to the Sixties," Tenth Anniversary Conference for the Journal of Policy History, St. Louis, Missouri.

January 1999. Paper, "The Postwar Politics of Environmentalism: Controversies Over Building Interstate Highways in the San Francisco Bay Area," presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the American Politics Group of the UK, Selwyn College, Cambridge University.

October 1998. Chair and Commentator, Session on New Perspectives on Religion in the West, Western History Association Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California.

January 1998. Lecture, "Rethinking the New Labor History in the Light of the New Institutionalism in Political History," presented at a session of the Bay Area Labor History Workshop, Berkeley.

September 1998. Lecture, "Moral Dilemmas, Loyalty Questions: The Case of American Anticommunism and Government Red Scares," presented to the members of the History and Arts Institute, San Jose Unified School District, San Jose.

October 1997. Paper, "Freeway Politics, San Francisco Style: The Controversy over Crosstown Freeways, 1945-1977," presented at a session of the Society for City and Regional Planning History meeting, Seattle, Washington.

April 1997. Chair and Commentator at a session on "San Francisco and the Dimensions of Diversity," at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, San Francisco.

October 1997. Chair and Commentator at a session on "Racial Liberalism in Postwar Western Cities," at the annual meeting of the Western History Association, St. Paul, Minnesota.

January 1997. Paper, "The Junipero Serra Freeway Controversy," presented at a session on Urban Policy in the Postwar American West, at the American Historical Association meeting, New York City.

July 1996. Lecture, "SOMA from 1870 to the Present: People, Places, and Politics in a Changing Urban District," at the California Historical Society, as part of the Inaugural Program of the Society at its new downtown address.

April 1996. Paper, "New Deal and Wartime Origins of San Francisco's Postwar Political Culture," at the annual scholars conference of the University of Iowa Center for Research in Recent United States History, Iowa City, Iowa.

August 1995 - December 1996. Curator of two historical exhibitions to mark the opening of the New Main Library, San Francisco. One exhibit told the story of how San Franciscans have expanded the meaning and practice of liberty, equality, and democracy in the city, and the other used materials from the Labor Archives to tell the story of working people and the union movement in the bay area.

November 1995. "San Francisco's New Deal System at War: the Impact of World War II on Politics and Policy," a paper at the Conference on California During World War II held at the Huntington Library, Pasadena.

August 1995. "New Deal and Wartime Origins of Urban Economic Policy: San Francisco in Comparative Perspective," a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Kehei, Maui.

August 1994. Culminating Lecture, "Racism and the City in Historical Perspective" for the "What is Race" Series of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at San Diego State University.

April 1994. Paper on Race and Class in the politics of policy-making in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston and San Antonio, from the Great Depression to the Great Society, at the annual meeting of the California American Studies Association, San Diego, California.

August 1992. Paper on coalition-building among labor, welfare, and civil rights organizations in San Francisco during World War II Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, Corvallis, Oregon.

May 1992. Lecture, "Many Peoples, One City: The Political Culture of San Francisco from the Great Fire and Earthquake to World War II," lecture for a symposium on "Recovering the Lost City, 1906-1939, sponsored by the NEH and Humanities West, Herbst Theater, San Francisco.

May 1992. Chair for session on Crisis, War and the State at the "Law, State, Society and History" conference of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto.

April 1992. "Challenging White Supremacy on the Urban Frontier," paper presented at the biennial meeting of the European Association for American Studies Conference, Seville, Spain.

June 1990. Lecture, "San Francisco: The Liberal Vision from the 1930s to the 1960s," for a symposium on "Visionary San Francisco," held in conjunction with the exhibition of that title at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, presented by invitation from the Museum.

April 1990. Consultant work with the American Studies Resources Centre in London on American Urban History curriculum materials. Attendance at the biennial meeting of the European Association for American Studies and participation in various workshops.

December 1989. "Political Culture and American Urban History" session at the AHA annual meeting, San Francisco. I organized this session at the invitation of the program committee and presented a paper "Liberalism and Urban Policy in San Francisco, from the 1930s to the 1960s."

August 1988. Commentary, Session on "Structures of Urban Political Culture" at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, San Francisco.

August 1986. "The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Urban Development in San Francisco, 1911-1937." A paper delivered at the August 1985 meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Honolulu.

July 1986. "Political Ideology and Belief Systems on the Far Western Frontier: California Business Leaders from the 1890s to World War II." A paper delivered at the Ninth Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, June 29 - July 3, 1986, Amsterdam.

April 1986. "Politics, Culture, and Ideology: Three Episodes in the Evolution of San Francisco's 'Culture of Civility'." A paper delivered at the meeting of the California American Studies Association, Long Beach, California.

Summer 1984. Member of the NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on Business History and American Culture, UC Berkeley.

March 1984 - October 1984. Member of Planning Committee for a Conference on Art and Disabilities: Contemporary Issues, funded by the California Council for the Humanities and co-sponsored by the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Institute of Art and Disabilities, Berkeley. Conference held at the Museum in October 1984.

April 1984 - June 1985. Director of "San Francisco History, the People and the City", a curriculum improvement project designed to introduce ethnic, working class, and women’s' history to the public secondary school curriculum at the San Francisco Downtown High School.

March - July 1984. Member of Planning Committee that put on the Fifty-Year Anniversary conference to commemorate the San Francisco General Strike. The conference, sponsored by the San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO, the ILWU, and the Teamsters, was held at Sailors Union Hall.

January 1980 - Present. Member of the Bay Area Labor History Workshop: academics, writers, and rank and file union historians.

December 1983. Paper on California business and urban policy history at the American Historical Association meeting in San Francisco.

December 1982 - December 1984. Co-Director, The San Francisco Community History project. I wrote half of the proposal for this project which was funded by the California Council for the Humanities and private foundations. The Project was an important part of the San Francisco County Fair during the summers of 1983 and 1984.

October 1982 - April 1983. Consultant to Video Free America project to broadcast four television documentaries on San Francisco neighborhoods.

August 1982. Chair, session on History and Architectural Preservation, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.

November 1981. Keynote speaker for a San Francisco Labor Council/California Humanities Council public employees' project.

February - December 1981. Member of Committee that put on a one-day conference on "San Francisco Labor: 130 Years of Tradition and Change." Conference was sponsored by San Francisco State and the S.F. Labor Council, AFL-CIO, the ILWU, and the Teamsters Joint Council.

August - January 1979, 1980. Consultant to San Francisco Art Commission and drafted the "historical background" section of a Commission report.

July 1979. Lecture, by invitation of the German Association for American Studies, at the Second European Conference on Curricular Aspects of American Studies, Tutzing, Germany, July 16-20.

July 1979. Paper, at the annual meeting of the Anglo-American Historical Commission, on the topic "Americanization, Social Control, and the Pursuit of Happiness in American Social Reform."

June 1979. Paper at the Second International Congress of North American Labor History, Milan, Italy, June 14-17.

May 1979. Seminar on American Studies held in Bucharest, Romania, as well as lectures to audiences at a number of regional universities, May 17-25.

February 1979. Public Lecture at the Institute of United States Studies, University of London.

January 1979. Paper at the Irish Association of American Studies, University College, Dublin.

November 1978. Delivered keynote lecture and led various seminars at the Conference on "The Urban Experience: America in the Sixties" held in Copenhagen, Denmark and sponsored by the Commission for Educational Exchange.

October and November, 1978. Delivered lectures at a variety of week-end conferences and to students in a dozen secondary schools as part of my duties as a Fulbright lecturer. I also spoke to students in American Studies at the University of Manchester and the College of St. Mark and St. John in Plymouth, Devon.

March 1978. Participant at a curriculum workshop on American Studies held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, sponsored by the American Studies Association.

August 1977. Lecturer in the American Studies Summer Institute for European teachers held at San Francisco State University.

May 1977. Participant at the Institute of Governmental Studies Conference at the University of California, Berkeley, on data collection for research on California cities.

April 1977. Co-Director and Lecturer for the Conference on "Urban USA Since 1945," held at Christ College, Liverpool, sponsored by the British Association for American Studies

January 1977. Participant at the Conference on "Urban Change and Conflict" sponsored by the Centre for Environmental Studies, University of London, and held at York University, England.

November 1976. Guest Lecturer, Program in English and American Studies, Sussex University, Falmer, Brighton.

Fall 1976. Consultant to the American Studies Resources Centre, Polytechnic of Central London. Presented lecture series "Interdisciplinary Perspectives in American Studies" and participated in organizing conferences and exhibits on American Politics, American Labor History, and Native American History and Culture.

June 1976. Participant on "New Dimensions" program on KQED FM radio, with Laura Nader, anthropologist, and David Smith, founder and director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic - a four-hour program on "Emerging Models for Community."

Spring 1976. Consultant to the California Council for the Humanities in Public Policy. I was one of the four academic advisers to the producers of the "Economy and Environment" TV programs on the local CBS channel supported by the Council. I was also the discussion leader at the four public meetings that followed the screening of the one-hour shows.

October 1975. Panelist on "American Issues Forum" on KGO TV, San Francisco.

December 1974. American Historical Association and Immigration History Society, joint session, paper on public school reform in San Francisco during the 1890's, Chicago.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Activities

Elected Member, Council of the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, 2003-2006.

Elected Member, Board of Directors, Urban History Association, 1993 – 1996; 2006 – 2009.

Chair, Jackson Prize Committee, Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, 1995

Member, Best Book in North American Urban History Committee, Urban History Association, 1994

Consultant, British Association for American Studies and Associated Examining Board, 1976.

Facilitator/Discussion leader, AHA/Historical Association Anglo-American History workshops,

three weeks each, Cal-Tech, Pasadena and York University, York, England, summers, 1973,1974.

Memberships

American Historical Association, American Catholic Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Labor and Working Class History Association, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, German Studies Association, Urban History Association, San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, Friends of the Archives of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Friends of the Bancroft Library.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Coordinator, Bay Area Labor History Workshop, 2003- 2009.

Advisory Board member, Northern California Labor Archives and Research Center, 2002 - Present.

Planning Committee and Faculty, "American Values – Contested Values" a two-week residential institute for German university teachers at San Francisco State University, Sept. 17 – Sept. 28, 2007, sponsored by the German Fulbright Commission.

Advanced Placement Workshop Consultant Training Program, The College Board, Atlanta Georgia, March 31-April 1, 2001; earned certification as a College Board Consultant for AP World History.

Co-Director of the Summer Institute for AP World History teachers, San Francisco State University, July 17-28, 2000, sponsored by the National Endowment of the Humanities, the World History Association, and the Educational Testing Service.

Curator, "San Francisco, the Politics of Inclusion" an exhibit marking the opening of the New Main Public Library, San Francisco Civic Center, January – April 1997.

Co-Director of the Summer Institute for American Studies, held at the Seven Hills Conference Center, San Francisco Sate University, August 1992: 28 teachers and   administrators  from various overseas locations, sponsored by U.S. State Department and administered by the University of Pennsylvania.

Delegate to the San Francisco County Labor Council, AFL-CIO, from the S.F. State University branch of the California Faculty Association, 1980s.

Advisory Board member and USA Consultant, American Studies Resources Centre, Polytechnic of Central London (University of Westminster), 1976-1986.

Recent Consultant Work:

"American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco" (2013) a film produced by Jackie Krentzman and directed by Marc Schafer

"Neighborhoods of San Francisco, The Fillmore," produced by Peter Stein for the KQED television series on San Francisco history

Channels KQED and KRON, television series on San Francisco history

Christopher Chadbourne & Associates of Boston (museum design firm)

Recent manuscript evaluations: University of Georgia Press, University of California Press, Ohio State University Press, Harper Collins, D.C. Heath, Prentice-Hall, Stanford University Press, University of Illinois Press, University Press of Kansas, University of Pennsylvania Press, and Catholic University of America Press.

Recent article evaluations: Journal of Urban History, Journal of Policy History, California History, Pacific Historical Review

Outside consultant to Tenure Award Committees in Departments of History at Hunter College, UCLA, Santa Clara University, Texas A&M, Mills College, and The University of Oklahoma.

Recent Interviews on issues of San Francisco, California, and United States history:

The Guardian

KGO radio

Stringr

CNN 

KQED FM 

KRON and KPIX television news 

San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, SF Weekly 

San Jose Mercury News (background)

PERSONAL

Married to Dr. Mary Claire Heffron, Ph.D.

Five children.

Four grandchildren.