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Scholar of the Month

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.

October, 2011 Scholar of the Month: Keith Woodhouse, 2011-2013 ICW Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Topic: The Gilded Age

Keith Woodhouse is a Mellon Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California and a research associate with the Institute on California and the West. Keith received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied American environmental and political history and completed a dissertation on the history of the radical environmental movement in the United States. He has taught on several campuses of the University of Wisconsin system.

September, 2011 Scholar of the Month: Dr. Jessica Stein

In September, Cohort 1 began its second year of the grant. Cohort 2, which is comprised of the El Rancho and Pasadena High School teachers, began its first of a two-year commitment.
On September 17, 2011, cohort 2 attended lectures at The Huntington Library.

The lead scholar for cohort 2 was Dr. Jessica Stein. Dr. Stein teaches at California State University Fullerton. Dr. Stein shared information about the Salem Witch Trials and the development of the American history.
During the afternoon session, Michele Zack, a local historian, discussed the treatment of Southwest Indians and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.
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