{"id":547,"date":"2022-11-30T18:41:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T18:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/?page_id=547"},"modified":"2026-09-08T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:36:24","slug":"la-history-metro-group-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/la-history-metro-group-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"LA History &amp; Metro Studies Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--full-width-image-and-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--full-width-image-and-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"image-container\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/12\/IMG_7311-768x432.jpeg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/12\/IMG_7311-1920x1080.jpeg 1920w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/12\/IMG_7311-1280x720.jpeg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/12\/IMG_7311-768x432.jpeg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Join us<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n           \n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>The LA History &amp; Metro Studies Group fosters the study and understanding of southern California history and the history of metropolitan areas more broadly. Through seminars on scholarly works-in-progress, book lectures, and panel discussions on contemporary issues facing southern California and American cities, our goal is to promote urban history scholarship as a means of enriching the field and informing policy-making toward a more just, equitable future for our urban regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n      <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--featured-block image-left\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--featured-block\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"text-image-container\">\n    <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>2026 &#8211; 2027<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Events\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Friday October 9, 2026, 10:30am <\/strong>\u2013 pre-circulated paper \u2013 @Seaver 1-2, Huntington<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Pyrrhic Victory: Henry Cisneros, the National Homeownership Strategy, and the Limits of Latine Homeownership in the Neoliberal Order\u201d<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aron Ramirez, assistant professor, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Friday November 6, 2026, 10:30am \u2013 <\/strong>pre-circulated paper \u2013 @Seaver 1-2, Huntington<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cArc Lights and Urban Boundaries: Streetlighting and the Shaping of Los Angeles\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joshua Lappen, postdoctoral fellow, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Friday December 4, 2026, 10:30am <\/strong>\u2013 dissertation workshop \u2013 short, pre-circulated papers \u2013 @ San Gabriel Valley Humanities Center, 414 S. Mission Drive, San Gabriel<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWives, Mothers, Sisters &amp; Others: French Women in Los Angeles During the Progressive Era\u201d Helene Demestre, Ph.D. candidate, Paris1 Pantheon Sorbonne<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBorder Visibility: Anti-Immigrant Media and the Rise of Vigilante Surveillance in 1980s San Diego\u201d Hailee Menchaca, Ph.D. candidate, UC Riverside<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Tues. January 26, 2027, 6:00pm-8:30pm<\/strong><em> \u2013 @<\/em>The Autry Museum of the American West<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">** Joint session with The Autry Museum of the American West<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6:00 exhibit tour; 6:45 dinner, 7:15 roundtable book discussion<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Life, Liberty, and Los Angeles <\/em>exhibit tour + V<em>isions of the Southland: A Year in Los Angeles County, <\/em>edited by Bill Deverell and Wade Graham, roundtable book discussion<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bill Deverell, USC and ICW<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wade Graham, writer, historian, &amp; landscape designer<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Becky Nicolaides, Affiliated Research Scholar, Huntington-USC ICW<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Schrank, Professor of History, CSU Long Beach<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing, UC Riverside<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Friday February 19, 2027, 10:30am <\/strong>\u2013 virtual<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHilton of Hollywood: Expanding the Chain Beyond Texas\u201d Megan Elias, Winiarski Curator of Food and Wine History, Smithsonian National Museum of American History<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>March 2027<\/strong> \u2013 date and specific location TBD \u2013 @ Huntington Library<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Haynes Foundation at 100: Governance and Democracy in the L.A. Region, Then and Now, A Centennial Perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Becky Nicolaides, Affiliated Research Scholar, Huntington-USC ICW<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caitlin Parker, Ph.D. candidate, UCLA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Friday April 9, 2027, 10:30am \u2013 <\/strong><em>Clark Davis Memorial lecture \u2013<\/em> @Seaver 1-2, Huntington<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Dancing with Manifest Destiny: Elite Men of Color and the Making of American Los Angeles<\/em> (University of Oklahoma Press, 2026) Daniel B. Lynch, History Instructor and Leonetti\/O&#8217;Connell Honors Research in Humanities and Social Sciences Program Head, Marlborough School<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race, Labor, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles <\/em>(NYU Press 2026) Caroline Luce, Project Director, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and Chief Curator, Mapping Jewish L.A.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00a0*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you would like to receive announcements and RSVP links for these sessions, please fill out the form at:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/LAMetroList\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/LAMetroList<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019d like to attend, you must RSVP for each session.\u00a0 Announcements will be emailed two weeks prior to each session, with logistical and RSVP information as well as links to pre-circulated papers (we are unable to distribute papers earlier than this). We request that participants read the papers if attending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All sessions will begin at 10:30 a.m., unless otherwise specified. This year, our locations include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Seaver Classrooms in the Munger Building at The Huntington Library<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The San Gabriel Valley Humanities Center, 414 S. Mission Drive, San Gabriel<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The Autry Museum of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles \u2013 on Tues. January 26, 2027, event begins at 6:00pm<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parking is free at all locations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, email the co-coordinators\u2014Kathy Feeley, Oscar Gutierrez, Becky Nicolaides, Caitlin Parker, and Andrea Thabet\u2014at <a href=\"mailto:LA.History.Group@gmail.com\">LA.History.Group@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>The LA History &amp; Metro Studies Group is generously sponsored by <\/em><em>the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like us on Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LAHistoryMetroStudiesGroup\">www.facebook.com\/LAHistoryMetroStudiesGroup<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lahistorymetrostudiesgroup\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lahistorymetrostudiesgroup<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<div class=\"html-content\">\n<p><em>Image credit: Building being demolished, U.S. Post Office, Los Angeles, Calif., 1937, <\/em><em>Dick Whittington Studio, USC Libraries Special Collections.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n          <\/div>\n\n          <div class=\"image-container\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/12\/dw-1937-07-00-01802-768x768.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/12\/dw-1937-07-00-01802-1280x1280.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2022\/12\/dw-1937-07-00-01802-768x768.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n  <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n        \n          \n          \n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--editorial-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--editorial-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n      <div class=\"cards-container\">\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>View<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/la-history-metro-studies-group-recorded-programming-subpage\/\" >\n                  \n                    Recorded Sessions\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Selected sessions from &#8220;#TIMESUP&#8221; to &#8220;Election 2018: The Political Landscape in LA and California&#8221; have been recorded and are available for viewing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Join<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/LAMetroList\" >\n                  \n                    RSVP to a meeting\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>If you would like to receive announcements for these sessions, please fill out the form at the RSVP link above.<\/p>\n<p>For Zoom sessions: We will include Zoom sign-in information in the e-announcement. Please sign in on time. Please keep your video on and your audio muted until introductions and\/or discussion begins. For those new to Zoom, please watch this video on etiquette (aimed at a student audience, but mostly apropos): <a href=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/video\/IzGAneJs8BNJr\">https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/video\/IzGAneJs8BNJr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For in-person sessions: All sessions will begin at 10:30am in Seaver Classroom 3, in the Munger Building, Huntington Library, unless otherwise noted. Please check e-announcements for exact location of sessions. Parking is free.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, email the co-coordinators \u2014 Kathy Feeley, Oscar Gutierrez, Becky Nicolaides, Caitlin Parker, and Andrea Thabet \u2014 at <a href=\"mailto:LA.History.Group@gmail.com\">LA.History.Group@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>Across Time<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                                      <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/la-history-metro-studies-archived-schedules-subpage\/\" >\n                  \n                    Archived Schedules\n\n                                      <\/a>\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Schedules by year as 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