RURAL STUDIES

David Bacon
Berkeley
David Bacon is an independent photographer whose projects have documented labor, immigration, and union organizing. Find out more·

Gerald W. Haslam
Rohnert Park
Gerald Haslam is a writer and retired professor of English at Sonoma State University. He is the co-author of The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters and author of Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California. Find out more·

Andres Eugenio Jimenez
California Policy Research Center
University of California, Office of the President
Berkeley
Andres Jimenez is a scholar of race and ethnic relations, immigration policy, and US-Latin American relations and has lectured on Mexican political identities and influence in California. Find out more·

Michael Kowalewski
English Department, Carleton College
Minnesota
Michael Kowalewski is a scholar of California literature and the American West and is the editor of the anthology Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration. 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·

Michael Edward Welsh
History
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley
Michael Welsh is a scholar of the history of the Southwest region and is the author of A History of the San Francisco District, US Army Corps of Engineers, 1980-2000. Find out more·