Courses in the PHP are taught by regular faculty and by adjunct professors of history who are professionals in nonacademic institutions, such as archives and museums. Through a wide breadth of experience, UCR’s Public History faculty demonstrates outstanding achievement and expertise in their respective fields.
 Catherine Gudis Associate Professor of History, Director of the Public History Program
Ph.D., Yale University, 1999
Fields of Interest: 20th Century U.S. cultural history; consumer culture, the history of the built environment; public history
(951) 827-5823
catherine.gudis@ucr.edu
Catherine Gudis received a B.A. in Philosophy from Smith College and a Ph.D. with distinction in American Studies from Yale University, where she also won a Yale Prize Teaching Fellowship. She was raised in Flushing, Queens, New York, and first came to Southern California in the mid 1980s. She has held fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and teaching posts as an assistant professor at Northern Illinois University and the University of Oklahoma Honors College. Her book, Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape (Routledge, 2004), traces the relationship between automobility, advertising, and the commercialization of the urban environment. She is a contributor to and coeditor of a forthcoming book of essays entitled Cultures of Commerce: Representations of Business Culture in the United States. Gudis has worked for many years as an editor and curator for art and history museums and as a public historian, most recently completing a large-scale, multimedia project entitled Curating the City: Wilshire Boulevard with the Los Angeles Conservancy.
 Molly McGarry Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., New York University, 1999
Fields of Interest: 19 th century U.S. cultural history; gender and sexuality, public history
(951) 827-1577
molly.mcgarry@ucr.edu
Molly McGarry received her B.A. from Cornell University and Ph.D. from New York University and is currently Director of the Program in Public History in the History Department at UCR. She has worked as a curator and consultant for The New York Public Library, The Jewish Museum, The Museum of the Chinese in the Americas, and the American Social History Project. Her exhibits have received curatorial awards from the American Association of Museums, the American Society for State and Local History, the International Association of Art Critics, and the Society of American Archivists. She is co-author with Fred Wasserman of Becoming Visible (Viking, 1999), co-editor with George Haggerty of A Companion to LGBT/Q Studies (Blackwell, 2007), and author of Ghosts of Futures Past (University of California Press, 2008).
 Clifford Trafzer Professor of History and Costo Chair in Native American
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 1973
Fields of Interest: Native American Social-Cultural History; American West; Oral Traditions; Public History
(951) 827-1974
clifford.trafzer@ucr.edu
Raised in Arizona, Clifford Trafzer was born to parents of Wyandot Indian and German blood. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in history at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, where he also worked as an archivist for Special Collections. He earned a Ph.D. in American History in 1973 with a specialty in American Indian History from Oklahoma State and the same year became a museum curator for the Arizona Historical Society. Before joining the faculty of UCR in 1991, Trafzer taught American Indian History at Navajo Community College, Washington State University and San Diego State University. His Boarding School Blues will be published by University of Nebraska Press in 2006. His As Long As The Grass Shall Grow and Rivers Flow: A History of Native Americans was published in 2000. His Kit Carson Campaign: The Last Great Navajo War and Yuma: Frontier Crossing of the Far Southwest were published in 1981. His work, Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest, appeared in 1986 winning the Governor's Award for the best non-fiction in Northwestern history. He has published several books and articles with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ford Foundation, American Philosophical Society, Historical Society of Southern California, Haynes Fund, and American Council of Learned Societies. In 1994 he won the Penn Oakland Award for Earth Song, Sky Spirit and in 1997 won the Native American Wordcraft Circle Award for Death Stalks the Yakama: Epidemiological Transitions and Death on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1888-1964. His works include Grandmother, Grandfather, and Old Wolf: Tamánwit Ku Súdat and Traditional Native American Stories From the Columbia Plateau and Exterminate Them!, and Native Universe: Voices of Indian America. He is currently completing three books on Wyandot medicine woman Eleonore Sioui, a reinterpretation on American Indian boarding schools and the role of field nurses among Indian people of Southern California.
 Steven Hackel Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., Cornell, 1994
Fields of Interest: Early America (West); California Indians; Spanish Borderlands
(951) 827-1845
steven.hackel@ucr.edu
Born and raised in California , Steven Hackel earned his B.A. at Standford University in 1984 and his Ph.D. in American History from Cornell University in 1994 with specializations in early America and the American West. From 1994 to 1996 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg , Virginia . Before coming to UCR in 2007, he was on the faculty of Oregon State University for a decade. Within the larger field of early American history, Hackel's research specializes on the Spanish Borderlands, colonial California , and California Indians. His first book, Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California , 1769-1850, was published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (2005). In 2006 Children of Coyote was awarded the American Society of Ethnohistory's Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize for the best book-length work in the field of ethnohistory. It also won best first book prizes given by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and the Western History Association, as well as the Hubert Herring Book Award sponsored by the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, and the Southern California Historical Society's Prize for the best book published on California before the Gold Rush. He initiated and serves as general editor of the Early California Population Project, a database developed by the Huntington Library that captures all ethnographic, genealogical, and demographic information recorded in the sacramental registers of California 's twenty-one Franciscan missions. The ECPP has data on more than 115,000 people – Indians, soldiers, settlers, and Franciscans –who lived in California between 1769 and 1850. He is writing a biography of Father Junípero Serra, the controversial Franciscan who oversaw the creation of California 's missions.
 Devra Weber Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., UCLA, 1986
Fields of Interest: United States History, labor history, with an emphasis on Mexican women, Mexicano/Chicano workers immigration, oral history, US fronters and California.
(951) 827-1874
devra.weber@ucr.edu
Devra Weber was born in New York to thespian parents, and raised in California, New York and the wilds of a Boston suburb. She began her academic career at the University of Wisconsin, and moved to UCLA where she began to focus on working class history. After a career in documentary films, she received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1986. She has published two books: Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Cotton, Farmworkers and the New Deal, 1919-1939 (UC Press, 1994), and edited La Historia de Vida del Inmigrante Mexicano por Manuel Gamio. (México City: Editorial Porrua, CIESAS/UC MEXUS joint publication, 2002) This is part of a three part collaborative work between UC MEXUS and CIESAS. The second volume of this collaboration, Inmigración Mexicano a los Estados Unidos por Manuel Gamiois to be published in 2004. Weber has published numerous articles, among them: "Leaving Trails of Powder: Ruminations on ‘unthinkable’ histories, families, narratives, silences, and the Mexican left in the United States;" "The Oaxacan Enclaves in Los Angeles: A Photo Essay" "Preguntas Sobre las Politicas de Representacion"; "Historical Perspectives on Mexican Transnationalism: With Notes from Angumacutiro"; "Raiz Fuerte: Oral History and Mexicana Farmworkers," "History and Oral Narratives," "Mexican Migrant Workers: A Case Study of Transnationalism" "The Organizing of Mexicano Agricultural Workers in Imperial Valley and Los Angeles, 1928-1934: An Oral History Analysis"; "Mexican Women on Strike: Memory, History and Oral Narratives."
Larry Burgess is Adjutant Professor of Public History in the History Department.
Along with being an adjutant professor for the Public History Program, Dr. Burgess has been the director of the A.K. Smiley Public Library in Redlands since 1986. Through the library, he presents programs on Southern California history and “the West,” as well as President Lincoln and the Civil War. He has served as curator for the library's sister institution, the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, a Redlands museum dedicated to Lincoln and the Civil War. In the summer and fall of 2000, Burgess was Redlands’ interim city manager. He has written and collaborated on many books, including The Smileys: A Biography (1969, 1993); Mohonk: Its People and Spirit (1982, 1993); The Hunt for Willie Boy (1994), Willie Boy in Two Worlds: An Episode in Indian-White Relations (2002), and Images of America: Redlands (2004). Dr. Burgess teaches the Archival Management course (HIST 263) and Professional Practice for the Public Historian (HIST 402).
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