November, 2011 Scholar of the Month: Volker Janssen

The Progressive Movement

He is a German native who came to California with a Fulbright Fellowship in 1999. He completed his Ph.D. at UC San Diego in 2005, when he joined the ranks of Cal State Fullerton's full-time faculty. Recipient of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Janssen has also taught at the University of Southern California. His book "Convict Labor, Civic Welfare: Prisons and Rehabilitation in mid-twentieth century America" focuses on labor and rehabilitation in California prisons from the 1930s to the 1970s and will appear with Oxford University Press. Janssen's essays on punishment in California have appeared in Osiris, a leading journal in the history of science, a new volume by the University of Pennsylvania Press on the politics of the Sunbelt, and in the Journal of American History (JAH) which won him the Organization of American Historians' Binkley-Stephenson Award for the best essay in the JAH in 2009 and which has been featured as a special online version for use in high school and college courses. Janssen is a regular contributor to oral history projects at CSUF and the Huntington Library, regularly produces assessment materials for leading college textbooks in U.S. history, and is currently exploring new research interests in the field of technology history. Janssen is an Associate Professor since 2010.

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