Kevin Starr
California historian specializing in the state's social and political importance in America
USC University Professor
Professor of history
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Contact at: (213) 821-2595 (office), (415) 563-3313 (home) or kstarr@usc.edu
Expertise:
- history of California
- history of Los Angeles
- California as an intensification of the American experience
- the American dream
- U.S. urban history
- history of urban development in Southern California
- State Librarian Emeritus of California
- Author, Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003 (2004), Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (2002), The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s (1997), Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California (1996), Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s (1990), Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era (1985) and Americans and the American Dream 1850-1915 (1973)
- Contributing editor, Los Angeles Times
- Former columnist for San Francisco Examiner
- Fellow, American Antiquarian Society; California Historical Society; Society of American Historians
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http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/faculty/faculty_display.html?Person_ID=1003730
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