Mark Brilliant

TEACHING

2004 – present	Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley Department of History and Program in American Studies
2003 – 2004	Lecturer, Yale University Department of History
2002 – 2003	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University Howard Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders
1990 – 1994	History Teacher, Lafayette High School, Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

1994 – 2002

(Transferred from School of Education to Department of History in 1997)

Stanford University

Ph.D., History (received August 2002)

Major Field: 20^th Century United States (with a focus on politics, law, and comparative civil rights in the West in the post-World War II era)

Secondary Field: History of Education in the United States

M.A., History, Stanford University

Dissertation Committee: Professors David Kennedy (adviser/chair), David Tyack, and Richard White.

1985 – 1989

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

B.A., Political Science, May, 1989

PUBLICATIONS

Color Lines: Civil Rights Struggles on America’s "Racial Frontier," 1945-1975 (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2008)

An examination of the political and legal contours of California’s multiple civil rights struggles, arguing that different axes of discrimination for different groups of people of color often translated into different avenues of legislative and legal redress, thereby exposing a racial landscape better viewed as criss-crossed with color lines rather than bisected by a single color line (white/black or white/nonwhite).

"'Intellectual Affirmative Action: How Multiculturalism Became Mandatory and Mainstream in College Curricula," in The 1980s: Gilded Age or Golden Age, eds. Vincent Cannato and Gil Troy (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2007).

"'Without Anyone Noticing At All': The (Silent) Minority Rights Revolution," review of The Minority Rights Revolution by John David Skrentny, Reviews in American History 33 (June 2005), 278-286.

PAPERS PRESENTED

"Carey McWilliams and the California Challenge to Racial Liberalism in the 1940s," Panel, "California and the Reconfiguration of National Civil Rights History" (Michael Katz, chair, and David Gutiérrez, commentator), American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, January 2006.

"'What is Good for One Racial Classification is Not Necessarily Good for Another': Desegregation, Bilingual Education, and the Emergence of California’s Conflicting Avenues of Civil Rights Redress, 1970-1974,” Panel, "America’s 'Racial Frontier': Struggles for Social Justice Beyond Black and White in Post-WWII California (Neil Foley, chair, and William Chafe, commentator), Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Memphis, April 6, 2003.

"'Your Rights End Where My Property Begins': Proposition 14 and the Eclipse of Racial Liberalism in California, 1963-1967," Panel, "Varieties of Mid-Century Liberalism"(Lizabeth Cohen, chair, and Daniel Rodgers, commentator), American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, January 7, 2001.