Kerwin Klein

Professor

Contact

Office: 2211 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: TBA
Phone: (510) 643-8857
Email:

Education

B.A., History, University of California, Riverside
M.A., History, University of Arizona, Tucson
Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles

Research and Teaching Interests

My field is US History since 1607, especially the 20th century. Most of my research has been in intellectual and cultural history. I have taught courses in recent U. S.; Native America; California and the West; history and theory; and environmental history. I am currently working on two projects: a cultural and environmental history of alpinism in western Europe and North America, and a history of modernism and mass culture in California.

Selected Publications

Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).

From History to Theory (forthcoming, University of California Press)

Steep: A Cultural and Environmental History of Mountaineering (under contract, Oxford University Press)

Courses

History 127: History of California (Fall 2001)