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University of Southern California
University of Southern California
History

Megan Kendrick

megan.kendrick@usc.edu, megan_mcleod20@hotmail.com

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MAJOR FIELD: Urban History

ADVISER: Phil Ethington

STATUS: ABD
Megan Kendrick is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Southern California. Her current research interests include urban history, history of the built environment, and the use of new media authoring in history writing. Her dissertation, "Stay in L.A.: Hotels and the Representation of Urban Public Space in Los Angeles, 1880s-1950s," is a study of hotels in both the imaginative landscape and built environment of Los Angeles. Through a fellowship from the USC Annenberg Center for Communication (2005-6), Kendrick authored a digital dissertation project, "Virtual Tourisms," as an ancillary chapter to her dissertation. "Virtual Tourisms" will be published in the Fall 2008 issue of the online journal, Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular. Kendrick was the administrative coordinator for the "Urban Icons" conference held at USC in March, 2004. She was also the associate editor and graphic designer for the multimedia companion to the special "Urban Icons" issue of Urban History through Cambridge Journals Online (May 2006, vol. 33, no. 1).