Oral histories of Los Angeles residents (ongoing): Undergraduates conducted oral histories of various residents in Los Angeles. If you’d like to listen, please request access through the contact page.
Lost Neighborhoods of San Diego (2024-25): Sixteen undergraduates worked with the San Diego History Center and the San Diego African American Museum of Art to create an exhibit on the urban history of SD.
student projects
classes on cities and urbanism
HIGR 201: Histories of transformative urban design
USP 1: History of US urban communities
HIUS 117: History of Los Angeles
HIUS 123: History of New York City
HIUS 143: Histories of the Built Environment in the Twentieth Century
HIUS 148/USP 103: History of the American City in the Twentieth Century
HIUS 181: Twentieth-century American architecture and urbanism
INTL 190/HITO 180: Global housing (formerly, Housing in the Developing World)
INTL 190: Urban poverty in historical context
CAT 2: Designing Equality (Introduction to design history)
USP 190: Senior Honors Thesis, Urban Studies and Planning
global history
MMW 15: Making of the Modern World, Twentieth century and beyond
HIUS 181/281: US in the World
HITO 192: Photographing atrocities
HITO 87: History of American capitalism
race & ethnicity
method - theory - practice
HIGR 209: Historical pedagogy
HIGR 265C: US in the twentieth century, historiography
HIGR 267A-B: Graduate research seminar
CAT 1: Fictions of history (introduction to historiography)