WILLIAM HENRY ISSEL
San Francisco State University
History Department
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94132
(415) 338-2250
bi@sfsu.edu

Public Lecture Topics:

• San Francisco's Political Culture in the Twentieth Century (impact of cultural heritage on political behavior), Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
• South of the Slot to SOMA (national, international, and local causes of neighborhood change), California Historical Society, San Francisco
• The Dilemma of Race in Urban America (history of attempts to overcome racism in American cities), San Diego State University, Liberal Studies Lecture Series
• Political Machines and Party Politics in America (changing fortunes of "party bosses" in American history), American Studies Centre, London
• Jews and Catholics Against Prejudice (the San Francisco inter-faith civil rights movement in the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s), Benjamin Swig Jewish Studies Center, University of San Francisco

• "Environmentalism, Politics, and the San Francisco Freeway Revolt," Pacific Historical Review, November 1999
• San Francisco, Politics, Power and Urban Development, second edition, co-author Robert Cherny (forthcoming in 2001)

Public Programs:

For some thirty years, Bill Issel has been actively involved in a variety of public history projects both in the United States and abroad. His experience includes serving as a Fulbright Professor at the University of Westminster in London, a member of the US-UK American historians consortium, and many other such activities. He served as guest curator for the San Francisco history exhibit funded by the Rockefeller Foundation that marked the opening of the New Main Public Library in San Francisco.

William Issel has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 22-Nov-1999.