HISTORIAN, SUBURBAN SCHOLAR, CONSULTANT, SPEAKER
Founding Partner, History Studio, LLC
Author of the forthcoming
The New Suburbia: Life in L.A. Suburbs Since 1945
Oxford University Press
Los Angeles is at the cutting edge of national suburban transformations. The lily-white, middle-class suburbs that so
dominated the postwar metropolis became home to more and more Latinos, black Americans, Asian Americans,
and poor people after 1970. My book explores what happened next.
Founding Partner
History Studio
A partnership of award-winning historians and scholars providing expert research,
script vetting, and original content for the entertainment industry andother creative producers.
U.S. representative, EU Erasmus + program, 2022-2024
“Urbanism and Suburbanization in the EU Countries and Abroad:
Reflection in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts.”
The New Suburbia: Life in L.A. Suburbs Since 1945
Oxford University Press
Los Angeles is at the cutting edge of national suburban transformations. The lily-white, middle-class suburbs that so
dominated the postwar metropolis became home to more and more Latinos, black Americans, Asian Americans,
and poor people after 1970. My book explores what happened next.
Founding Partner
History Studio
A partnership of award-winning historians and scholars providing expert research,
script vetting, and original content for the entertainment industry andother creative producers.
U.S. representative, EU Erasmus + program, 2022-2024
“Urbanism and Suburbanization in the EU Countries and Abroad:
Reflection in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts.”
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RECENT WORK
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"Op-Ed: How to make sure the L.A. River Master Plan fulfills its promise to the Gateway Cities"
with Jon Christensen Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2021 "It’s crucial to ensure that those who live in these cities have a voice in what will happen to them. The Gateway Cities have made it through our region’s toughest history over the last 50 years. They deserve a community-driven plan to benefit from its revival." |
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"The Real Suburbs: Unpacking Distortions and Truths about America's Suburbs." UCLA Center for the Study of Women Blog, September 2, 2020 The Trump administration has distorted the reality of today's suburbs, as a campaign strategy. The suburbs, in fact, house a wide cross-section of America itself—including groups the President repeatedly derides, like immigrants, Latinx, Black, and Asian American families, and the poor. |
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"From Resourceful to Illegal: The Racialized History of Garage Housing in Los Angeles."
Boom California, January 31, 2019 The bumpy history of backyard garage housing over the 20th century in L.A., from the era when it was welcomed -- even seen as patriotic -- to the years when it was criminalized and racialized. |
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"Design Assimilation in Suburbia: Asian Americans, Built Landscapes, and Suburban Advantage in LA's San Gabriel Valley since 1970."
with James Zarsadiaz Journal of Urban History (2017) Why do some immigrant suburbs look All-American - without an ethnic trace in sight? We explore the history of these suburbs, answering how and why they came to be. * 2015 Arnold Hirsch Prize of the Urban History Association * 2018 Bishir Prize of the Vernacular Architecture Forum |
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"Suburbanization in the United States after 1945" with Andy Wiese Online Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (2017) Everything you always wanted to know about American suburbia. A far-ranging, cutting-edge look at the history of American suburbs over the past 70 years. A lot packed in this one. |
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"Suburban Metamorphosis"
UCLA Center for the Study of Women blogsite, and HippoReads (2016) "Little did I anticipate when I chose to study the history of suburban life in Los Angeles, 1945-2000, that it would resonate so clearly with political events unfolding around us. In the wake of Donald Trump’s campaign and victory, I’m convinced more than ever that the suburbs of Los Angeles have a lot to teach us..." |
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"Suburban Disequilibrium" with Andy Wiese New York Times Opinion page (2013) "Today’s suburbs provide a map not just to the different worlds of the rich and the poor, which have always been with us, but to the increase in inequality between economic and social classes." |
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