STEPHEN JOSEPH PITTI
Yale University
History and American Studies
Box 208236
New Haven, CT 06520
(203) 436-1253
stephen.pitti@yale.edu

Brief Biography:
Stephen Pitti received his MA and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University.

Public Lecture Topics:

  • "Industrial Mining in 19th Century California," Beinecke Library
  • "Racial Politics in Postwar San Jose: Urbanizing Mexican Americans and Civil Rights," Stanford University
  • "Immigration and the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights," Women's Center, Yale University
  • "The United Farm Workers and New Labor Unionism," Yale University
  • "The State of Chicano History in California," Plenary Session of the California Council for the Promotion of History Conference, Sacramento
  • "Positions in Chicano History and Ethnic Studies," Michigan State University

Public Programs:

  • Seminar participant, "Research in Latino Health and Culture," School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University
  • Co-founder and head researcher, Oral History of Latino Civil Rights Project, Stanford University
  • Co-founder and coordinator, Bay Area Latinos Community Study Project, Stanford Center for Chicano Research
  • Consultant, processing of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Papers, Stanford University Archives
  • Researcher, The Fight in the Fields, PBS documentary on the history of farm workers, Paradigm Productions

Stephen Pitti has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 22-Nov-1999 .