CULTURAL HERITAGE

Craig D. Bates
Yosemite Museum
National Park Service
Craig Bates is a curator of exhibitions on Native American subjects, specializing in western Native American materials culture and history. Find out more·

Concha Delgado-Gaitan
Independent- Professor Emerita
El Cerrito
Concha Delgado-Gaitan is a scholar of family and community literacy and socio-cultural studies in education. She is the author of Protean Literacy: Extending the Discourse on Empowerment. Find out more·

Kendra Dillard
History
Oakland Museum of California
Kendra Dillard is an expert in historic preservation and site restoration. Find out more·

Paul Espinosa
Espinosa Productions
San Diego
Paul Espinosa is an independent filmmaker who specializes in making documentary and dramatic films focused on the US-Mexico border region. Find out more·

Charles B. Faulhaber
Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Charles Faulhaber is a scholar of language and history, specializing in medieval Spanish literature and rhetoric and is the author of Latin Rhetorical Theory in Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Castile. Find out more·

Susan Griffin
Berkeley
Susan Griffin is a writer and scholar in ecofeminism and philosophy and has published What Her Body Thought: A Journey into the Shadows. Find out more·

Anthea Marie Hartig
History
University of California, Riverside
Anthea Hartig is a scholar of California studies and architectural history, specializing in the historic build environment, and has given numerous lectures on the citrus culture of Southern California. Find out more·

Kevin Hearle
San Mateo
Kevin Hearle is a scholar of literature and California studies and has written articles and given lectures on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Find out more·

David Morris Kipen
San Francisco Chronicle
David Kipen is the book editor for the San Francisco Chronicle and a steering committee member of the California Studies Association. Find out more·

Ali Modarres
Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs
California State University, Los Angeles
Ali Modarres is a scholar of cultural geography and ethnic identity and has lectured on the demographic landscapes of Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley. Find out more·

Rick Moss
History
California African American Museum
Rick Moss is a scholar of African American Studies and is currently working on three exhibits that will open before 2003. Find out more·

Stephen Joseph Pitti
History and American Studies
Yale University
Connecticut
Stephen Pitti is a scholar of California history, specializing in Chicano history and farmworker labor. Find out more·

Arijit H. Sen
Architecture
University of California, Berkeley
Arijit Sen is a scholar of architectural history, specializing in ethnic identity and urban Indian buildings. Find out more·

Dr. Florence Shipek
Riverside
Florence Shipek is a scholar of early California history and is a retired history professor from the University of California, Riverside. Find out more·

Susan O'Neal Stryker
Gay and Lesbian Historical Society
San Francisco
Susan Stryker is a scholar of history and community identity and co-authored Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. Find out more·

Arthur C. Verge
History
El Camino College, Torrance
Arthur Verge is a scholar of California history and is the author of Paradise Transformed: Los Angeles During the Second World War. Find out more·

John Zheng Wang
Criminal Justice
California State University, Long Beach
John Wang is a scholar of Asian American culture and has given numerous lectures on Asian Americans in the criminal justice system. Find out more·