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Catherine Gudis
Associate Professor of History
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.
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