GRAY BRECHIN
University of California, Berkeley
Geography Department
McCone Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 642-3903
gbrechin@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Public Lecture Topics (partial list):

• "The World We Lost: California in 1915 and Now", at the California History Center, DeAnza College
• "Imperial San Francisco", at Humanities West, Stanford Humanities Center, and the Foundation for San Francisco's Architectural Heritage
• "Development of San Francisco", at the Association of International Educators National Convention
• "Building a City on Gold", at the National School Board Association's National Conference
• "The Panama-Pacific International Exposition and the Palace of Fine Arts", at the Exploratorium's 75th Anniversary
• "Suicidal Utopias: California Cities in 1915 and Now", at the California Studies Conference
• "San Francisco's Oligarchy", at New College of California

Public Projects:

Gray Brechin has extensive experience giving slide shows to academic and general audiences, as well as consultant and talking head for TV documentaries. He is the author of Farewell, Promised Land (with Robert Dawson) and Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthy Ruin (both UC Press).

Recommendations:

Watch the television documentary "Birth of a City", part of KRON-TV's Bay Area 2000 documentary series.

Gray Brechin has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 29-Apr-1999.