DOYCE B. NUNIS, JR.
University of Southern California
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0034
fax: (323) 913-0800

Brief Biography:
Professor Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. has been editor since 1962 of the Southern California Quarterly, the publication of the Historical Society of Southern California

Additional biographical data on Professor Nunis can be found in the current edition of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the West, Contemporary Authors and the new edition of Howard Lamar's Encyclopedia of the American West.

Public Lecture Topics:

• "Fact and Fantasy in the Film California," 1998, Lecture Series, Autry Museum of Western Heritage
• "Fascinating Aspects of the California Gold Rush," Teachers Workshop, sponsored by the Oakland Museum of California, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, January 9, 1999
• Teachers Conference/Workshop, sponsored by the Historical Society of Southern California, January 23, 1999: Keynote Speaker
• "Law and Order in the California Gold Rush," Lecture Series, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, January 17, 1999
• "Impact of the Gold Rush on the Californios," Autry Museum of Western Heritage, September 26, 1998

Public Projects:

• Book Editor, El Presidio de San Francisco: A History Under Spain and Mexico, Spokane: A.H. Clark Co., 1996
• Hispanic California Revisited: Essays by Rancis F. Guest, O.F.M., Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library, 1996
• Women in the Life of the Southland: An Historical Anthology, Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1996
• Mission San Fernando, Rey de Espana, 1797-1997: A Bicentennial Tribute, Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1997
• Forthcoming in 1999:
• A Parochial and Institutional History of the Diocese of Oakland
• Journal of a Hide and Tallow Ship Captain's Wife: The Diary of Lydia Rider Nye
• Recent Articles:
• "The Franciscan Friars of Mission San Fernando, 1797-1847," Southern California Quarterly, Fall 1997
• "Alta California's Trojan Horse," California History, Summer/Fall 1997; reprinted in Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush, University of California Press, 1998

Doyce B. Nunis has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 09-Feb-1999 .