JOSH SIDES: Dr. Sides is the Whitsett Professor of California History at California State University, Northridge and the editor of California History, the state's official historical journal. At CSUN, he teaches classes on urban history, the West, African Americans, and California. He has published numerous articles and the books L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004) and Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), the latter of which won the Bullough Prize for Best Book of 2009 by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and the Lewis Mumford Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. He is the editor of an anthology entitled Post-Ghetto: Reimagining South Los Angeles (Berkeley: University of California/Huntington Press, 2013): jsides@csun.edu

 

NATALE ZAPPIA: Dr. Zappia is Assistant Professor of History at Whittier College specializing in the environmental history of the early America. His work explores the intersection of continental trading networks, food pathways, and ecological transformations across the West. His recent book, Traders and Raiders:  The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin (UNC Press, 2014), tells the history the early American Lower Colorado River, a watershed that looms large over the modern urban landscapes of Los Angeles and other western cities. Zappia is now at work on a new book project, “Food Frontiers: Borderland Ecologies in Early America,” which explores the evolution of food systems in early North America: nzappia@whittier.edu

 

JESSICA KIM: Dr. Kim is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Northridge.  She teaches courses on the history of Los Angeles, California, and the American West and also spearheads the department’s public history programming.  She is currently working on a book that situates the rise of Los Angeles within the context of international investment, particularly in Mexico, and examines the ways in which cities intersect with national borders.

 

JULIA BRICKLIN: Julia currently serves as Associate Editor of California History. She has written several pieces for magazines such as Civil War Times and Wild West, and is a regular contributor to Financial History, a publication of the American Museum of Finance. Bricklin’s Claude Parker: L.A.’s First Tax Man was published in California History in Fall of 2014. Before this, she worked for many years in the entertainment field, for such companies as Disney and Hasbro, Inc. Bricklin received her B.S. in journalism from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and holds an M.A. in history from Cal State Northridge.