Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
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A teaching, research, and service initiative focused on the history and culture of the modern American West.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation will be hosting a conference, Soak it Up: Los Angeles, on design and urban flooding in Southern California, including comment from ICW's own Bill Deverell!
For info and to register: www.tclf.org/soak-it-los-...
For info and to register: www.tclf.org/soak-it-los-...
Soak it Up: Los Angeles, CA | TCLF
REGISTER NOW - In honor of the late Oberlander Prize Laureate, Kongjian Yu, global champion of the “sponge cities” concept, leading landscape architects will examine provocative solutions for urban fl...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Cultural Landscape Foundation will be hosting a conference, Soak it Up: Los Angeles, on design and urban flooding in Southern California, including comment from ICW's own Bill Deverell!
For info and to register: www.tclf.org/soak-it-los-...
For info and to register: www.tclf.org/soak-it-los-...
🧵 New, noteworthy, and open-access Western scholarship!
Our partners at Pacific Historical Review @ucpress have made a piece from their new issue open to our readers and the public: “’No Chinese Should Obey It’: A Transpacific History of the Geary Act” by Alexander Jin.
Our partners at Pacific Historical Review @ucpress have made a piece from their new issue open to our readers and the public: “’No Chinese Should Obey It’: A Transpacific History of the Geary Act” by Alexander Jin.
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🧵 New, noteworthy, and open-access Western scholarship!
Our partners at Pacific Historical Review @ucpress have made a piece from their new issue open to our readers and the public: “’No Chinese Should Obey It’: A Transpacific History of the Geary Act” by Alexander Jin.
Our partners at Pacific Historical Review @ucpress have made a piece from their new issue open to our readers and the public: “’No Chinese Should Obey It’: A Transpacific History of the Geary Act” by Alexander Jin.
Every year students in our high school program work a shift at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. We’ve witnessed firsthand how they provide crucial resources for families facing food insecurity.
If you can, please consider supporting the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: lafoodbank.org
If you can, please consider supporting the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: lafoodbank.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Every year students in our high school program work a shift at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. We’ve witnessed firsthand how they provide crucial resources for families facing food insecurity.
If you can, please consider supporting the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: lafoodbank.org
If you can, please consider supporting the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank: lafoodbank.org
Really important project from Million Dollar Hoods and @uclacilp.bsky.social explaining the history of race, immigration, and deportations in the US. It's an excellent teaching tool!
mappingdeportations.com
mappingdeportations.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Really important project from Million Dollar Hoods and @uclacilp.bsky.social explaining the history of race, immigration, and deportations in the US. It's an excellent teaching tool!
mappingdeportations.com
mappingdeportations.com
Powerful piece from our partners at The Huntington on the importance of the humanities, now more than ever.
“The humanities are civic infrastructure. They’re the systems of thought and imagination that hold a community together. There has never been a more important time to invest in them.”
“The humanities are civic infrastructure. They’re the systems of thought and imagination that hold a community together. There has never been a more important time to invest in them.”
A Haven for the Humanities | The Huntington
Research Fellows reflect on the archives, art, and gardens that have shaped our world.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Powerful piece from our partners at The Huntington on the importance of the humanities, now more than ever.
“The humanities are civic infrastructure. They’re the systems of thought and imagination that hold a community together. There has never been a more important time to invest in them.”
“The humanities are civic infrastructure. They’re the systems of thought and imagination that hold a community together. There has never been a more important time to invest in them.”
Join our friends and colleagues at The Huntington for this year's Billington Lecture!
Professor Dustin Tahmahkera
"Archival Captivity Narratives: Who's Capturing Whom in Comanche Archives?"
6:00-7:00 pm
Nov. 6, 2025
Rothenberg Hall
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Professor Dustin Tahmahkera
"Archival Captivity Narratives: Who's Capturing Whom in Comanche Archives?"
6:00-7:00 pm
Nov. 6, 2025
Rothenberg Hall
www.huntington.org/event/archiv...
Archival Captivity Narratives: Who's Capturing Whom in Comanche Archives? | The Huntington
Join Dustin Tahmahkera, professor of Native American studies at the University of Oklahoma, for a lecture on stories of Comanches in film and media.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Join our friends and colleagues at The Huntington for this year's Billington Lecture!
Professor Dustin Tahmahkera
"Archival Captivity Narratives: Who's Capturing Whom in Comanche Archives?"
6:00-7:00 pm
Nov. 6, 2025
Rothenberg Hall
www.huntington.org/event/archiv...
Professor Dustin Tahmahkera
"Archival Captivity Narratives: Who's Capturing Whom in Comanche Archives?"
6:00-7:00 pm
Nov. 6, 2025
Rothenberg Hall
www.huntington.org/event/archiv...
🧵Check out this new and award-winning piece from our friends at Pacific Historical Review by Iker Saitua at Univ of the Basque Country—”‘Labor Freezing’: Spanish-Basque Immigrants, Mexican Labor, and the Sheepherder Shortage in the American West during the Second World War.”
online.ucpress.edu/phr
online.ucpress.edu/phr
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🧵Check out this new and award-winning piece from our friends at Pacific Historical Review by Iker Saitua at Univ of the Basque Country—”‘Labor Freezing’: Spanish-Basque Immigrants, Mexican Labor, and the Sheepherder Shortage in the American West during the Second World War.”
online.ucpress.edu/phr
online.ucpress.edu/phr
Join ICW co-directors Bill Deverell and Elizabeth Logan for tomorrow's @dornsife.usc.edu Dialogues!
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
October 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Join ICW co-directors Bill Deverell and Elizabeth Logan for tomorrow's @dornsife.usc.edu Dialogues!
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
Our friends at USC Libraries have two new fascinating archival collections about Southern California religious and cultural history!
Learn more about the Caspary and McKenna papers: libraries.usc.edu/article/two-...
Learn more about the Caspary and McKenna papers: libraries.usc.edu/article/two-...
Two New Archival Collections Illuminate Southern California’s Religious and Cultural Transformations | USC Libraries
The Anita M. Caspary papers and Kristine McKenna papers, both now open for research, offer fresh insights into Southern California’s religious, cultural, and artistic life over the past century.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Our friends at USC Libraries have two new fascinating archival collections about Southern California religious and cultural history!
Learn more about the Caspary and McKenna papers: libraries.usc.edu/article/two-...
Learn more about the Caspary and McKenna papers: libraries.usc.edu/article/two-...
Next week's @dornsife.usc.edu Dialogues will be hosted by ICW's very own co-directors, Bill Deverell and Elizabeth Logan!
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
October 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Next week's @dornsife.usc.edu Dialogues will be hosted by ICW's very own co-directors, Bill Deverell and Elizabeth Logan!
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
From Gold Rush to Gigabytes: California’s 175 Years of Change and Reinvention
Oct. 23, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/dornsife-alu...
🚨 U.S. historians! Our colleagues at Washington State University are hiring:
Assistant/Associate Professor in Public History - Tenure Track
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Public History - Tenure Track
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Public History - Tenure Track
Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on: November 30, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 270-NN_FACULTY - ...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
🚨 U.S. historians! Our colleagues at Washington State University are hiring:
Assistant/Associate Professor in Public History - Tenure Track
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Public History - Tenure Track
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🚨 U.S. historians! Our colleagues at UC Davis are hiring:
Associate/Full Professor of Native American Studies: Indigenous North American Perspectives
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07317
Associate/Full Professor of Native American Studies: Indigenous North American Perspectives
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07317
Associate/Full Professor of Native American Studies: Indigenous North American Perspectives
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
October 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🚨 U.S. historians! Our colleagues at UC Davis are hiring:
Associate/Full Professor of Native American Studies: Indigenous North American Perspectives
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07317
Associate/Full Professor of Native American Studies: Indigenous North American Perspectives
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07317
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UC Press is looking for a Publicist! Help amplify authors, pitch stories that spark conversation, & champion bold, field-defining books. Apply here. Or spread the word!
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October 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
UC Press is looking for a Publicist! Help amplify authors, pitch stories that spark conversation, & champion bold, field-defining books. Apply here. Or spread the word!
careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucop/EMP...
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🧵1/ To accompany his recent piece for our blog, author Wade Graham sat down for a conversation with ICW co-director Bill Deverell. They talked about the long history and future of fire in Malibu.
Hear all of their conversation and read Wade’s recent piece: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/west-on-fire.
Hear all of their conversation and read Wade’s recent piece: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/west-on-fire.
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🧵1/ To accompany his recent piece for our blog, author Wade Graham sat down for a conversation with ICW co-director Bill Deverell. They talked about the long history and future of fire in Malibu.
Hear all of their conversation and read Wade’s recent piece: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/west-on-fire.
Hear all of their conversation and read Wade’s recent piece: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/west-on-fire.
In Conversation with William Schultz
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm PST
Join us for a conversation with Dr. William Schultz about his forthcoming book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City.
Register Now: bit.ly/willschultz
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm PST
Join us for a conversation with Dr. William Schultz about his forthcoming book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City.
Register Now: bit.ly/willschultz
September 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
In Conversation with William Schultz
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm PST
Join us for a conversation with Dr. William Schultz about his forthcoming book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City.
Register Now: bit.ly/willschultz
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 pm PST
Join us for a conversation with Dr. William Schultz about his forthcoming book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City.
Register Now: bit.ly/willschultz
🚨 U.S. historians! Our colleagues at Occidental College are hiring:
Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professorship in U.S. History/The Americas
www.oxy.edu/working-oxy/...
Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professorship in U.S. History/The Americas
www.oxy.edu/working-oxy/...
Faculty Positions
Faculty Positions Occidental’s interdisciplinary focus encourages a hands-on approach to learning and includes one of the country’s best undergraduate research programs.
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September 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
🚨 U.S. historians! Our colleagues at Occidental College are hiring:
Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professorship in U.S. History/The Americas
www.oxy.edu/working-oxy/...
Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professorship in U.S. History/The Americas
www.oxy.edu/working-oxy/...
🧵 1/7 Author Claire Hoffman gave us an inside look at some of the incredible historic images in her new biography of Aimee Semple-McPherson, ‘Sister Sinner.’
Join us: In Conversation with Claire Hoffman
Thursday, Sep 18, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PST
Register Now: bit.ly/sistersinner
Join us: In Conversation with Claire Hoffman
Thursday, Sep 18, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PST
Register Now: bit.ly/sistersinner
September 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🧵 1/7 Author Claire Hoffman gave us an inside look at some of the incredible historic images in her new biography of Aimee Semple-McPherson, ‘Sister Sinner.’
Join us: In Conversation with Claire Hoffman
Thursday, Sep 18, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PST
Register Now: bit.ly/sistersinner
Join us: In Conversation with Claire Hoffman
Thursday, Sep 18, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PST
Register Now: bit.ly/sistersinner
Christian Nationalism: In Conversation with Bradley Onishi
Thursday, September 11, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00pm PST
Join ICW for a conversation with Dr. Bradley Onishi and ICW Co-Director Dr. Elizabeth Logan, part of our Fall 2025 Series Worshiping in the American West.
Register: bit.ly/bradleyonishi
Thursday, September 11, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00pm PST
Join ICW for a conversation with Dr. Bradley Onishi and ICW Co-Director Dr. Elizabeth Logan, part of our Fall 2025 Series Worshiping in the American West.
Register: bit.ly/bradleyonishi
August 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Christian Nationalism: In Conversation with Bradley Onishi
Thursday, September 11, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00pm PST
Join ICW for a conversation with Dr. Bradley Onishi and ICW Co-Director Dr. Elizabeth Logan, part of our Fall 2025 Series Worshiping in the American West.
Register: bit.ly/bradleyonishi
Thursday, September 11, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00pm PST
Join ICW for a conversation with Dr. Bradley Onishi and ICW Co-Director Dr. Elizabeth Logan, part of our Fall 2025 Series Worshiping in the American West.
Register: bit.ly/bradleyonishi
📣 Announcing our fall webinar series, Worshiping in the West!
We'll be in conversation with leading scholars on religion in the American West. Their new books cover a wide range of topics, from Christian nationalism to multiracial Pentecostalism.
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/upcoming/
We'll be in conversation with leading scholars on religion in the American West. Their new books cover a wide range of topics, from Christian nationalism to multiracial Pentecostalism.
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/upcoming/
August 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
📣 Announcing our fall webinar series, Worshiping in the West!
We'll be in conversation with leading scholars on religion in the American West. Their new books cover a wide range of topics, from Christian nationalism to multiracial Pentecostalism.
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/upcoming/
We'll be in conversation with leading scholars on religion in the American West. Their new books cover a wide range of topics, from Christian nationalism to multiracial Pentecostalism.
RSVP: dornsife.usc.edu/icw/upcoming/
Postdoc opportunity @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social's Center for the Study of Guns and Society:
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Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Researcher
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts university (founded in 1831) in Connecticut and home to the Center for the Study of Guns and Society, the first academic center in the United States dedic...
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July 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Postdoc opportunity @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social's Center for the Study of Guns and Society:
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wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
We have something whimsical for you to read this weekend! PhD student Basak Karaca writes about discovering the US West via the cartoon Lucky Luke while growing up in Turkey. How did this popular Belgian cartoon shape perceptions of the West around the world?
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Lucky Luke: A Lonely Cowboy in the American West
By Yagmur Karaca I discovered the comic Lucky Luke as a child in Turkey, where the series went by the title Red Kit. Having been born in 1994, Lucky Luke shaped not just my childhood imagination of…
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July 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We have something whimsical for you to read this weekend! PhD student Basak Karaca writes about discovering the US West via the cartoon Lucky Luke while growing up in Turkey. How did this popular Belgian cartoon shape perceptions of the West around the world?
icwblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/l...
icwblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/l...
We’re highlighting some of our favorite works on histories of immigration and immigrant communities in the American West as we believe they help us better understand the historical roots of systems of racism, nativism, and xenophobia, and how to confront them now.
July 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
We’re highlighting some of our favorite works on histories of immigration and immigrant communities in the American West as we believe they help us better understand the historical roots of systems of racism, nativism, and xenophobia, and how to confront them now.
"National authoritarians tend to attack their most successful and independent cities—from Istanbul to Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City.
Do the people of besieged cities have any chance of defeating the authoritarian nation-states that scapegoat and oppress them?
Yes. But it won’t be easy."
Do the people of besieged cities have any chance of defeating the authoritarian nation-states that scapegoat and oppress them?
Yes. But it won’t be easy."
People all over the world fear the prospect of World War III.
But what if the world war is already underway? What if we’re already fighting it without realizing it?
Columnist Joe Mathews explains: zps.la/4esO6JT
But what if the world war is already underway? What if we’re already fighting it without realizing it?
Columnist Joe Mathews explains: zps.la/4esO6JT
Los Angeles, Welcome to World War III | Democracy Local
From Istanbul and Budapest to Aleppo and Khartoum, Authoritarians Are Attacking Their Most Independent Cities
zps.la
July 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"National authoritarians tend to attack their most successful and independent cities—from Istanbul to Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City.
Do the people of besieged cities have any chance of defeating the authoritarian nation-states that scapegoat and oppress them?
Yes. But it won’t be easy."
Do the people of besieged cities have any chance of defeating the authoritarian nation-states that scapegoat and oppress them?
Yes. But it won’t be easy."
We know you’ve been waiting for it! Season 5 of our podcast, Western Edition, drops this fall.
Season 5 is taking us across the West and we’re sharing a few behind-the-scenes shots. Can you guess where we are and what we’re talking about?
🎧🎧🎧 Stay tuned!
Season 5 is taking us across the West and we’re sharing a few behind-the-scenes shots. Can you guess where we are and what we’re talking about?
🎧🎧🎧 Stay tuned!
June 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
We know you’ve been waiting for it! Season 5 of our podcast, Western Edition, drops this fall.
Season 5 is taking us across the West and we’re sharing a few behind-the-scenes shots. Can you guess where we are and what we’re talking about?
🎧🎧🎧 Stay tuned!
Season 5 is taking us across the West and we’re sharing a few behind-the-scenes shots. Can you guess where we are and what we’re talking about?
🎧🎧🎧 Stay tuned!
Another postdoc opportunity! This one with UCI's Center for Liberation, Anti-Racism, and Belonging.
Two-year position to support “The Historic Origins Project investigating Economic inequality in Orange County (HOPE-OC).”
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09684
Two-year position to support “The Historic Origins Project investigating Economic inequality in Orange County (HOPE-OC).”
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09684
HOPE-OC Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
June 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Another postdoc opportunity! This one with UCI's Center for Liberation, Anti-Racism, and Belonging.
Two-year position to support “The Historic Origins Project investigating Economic inequality in Orange County (HOPE-OC).”
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09684
Two-year position to support “The Historic Origins Project investigating Economic inequality in Orange County (HOPE-OC).”
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09684