Kerwin Klein

Associate Professor

Contact

Office: 2211 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: TU 2-3:30
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 history of alpinism in western Europe and North America, and a history of modernism and mass culture in California.

Selected Publications

"Native Americans and the Burden of History." Modern Intellectual History 2 (2005): 409-417.

"On The Emergence of 'Memory' in Historical Discourse." Representations 69 (Winter 2000): 127-150.

• Reprinted in Keith Jenkins, ed., Rethinking History: A Reader (London: Routledge, 2002).

• Translated by Maciej Bankowski as "O pojawieniu sie pamieci w dyskursie historycznym." Konteksty 3 (2003).

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

"Reclaiming the 'F'' Word, Or Being and Becoming Postwestern," Pacific Historical Review 65 (May 1996), 179-216.

"In Search of Narrative Mastery: Postmodernism and the People without History," History and Theory 34 (1995), 275-298.

Courses

History 127: History of California (Fall 2001)