ERIC AVILA

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Ph.D. Department of History, University of California, Berkeley 1997

Office: 7357 BUNCHE Hall
Phone: 310-825-9106
Fax: 310-825-2449
E-mail: eavila@ucla.edu

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Field

United States

Research Interests

20th Century U.S. History; urban and cultural history; popular/mass culture; history of architecture and the built environment; race and ethnicity; Chicano Studies

Notes

Associate Professor, Chicano Studies and Urban Planning, UCLA

Selected Publications

BOOKS:

Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles, (University of California Press, 2004).

Noriega, Chon, Avila, Eric, Sandoval, Chela, Pérez Torres, and Dávalos, Mary Karen, The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970-2000, (Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2001).

ARTICLES, REVIEW ESSAYS & BOOK CHAPTERS:

"Turning Structure Into Culture: Reclaiming the Freeway in San Diego's Chicano Park," in Glickman, Cook and O'Malley, eds. The Cultural Turn in U.S. History: Past, Present and Future (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).

"East Side Stories: Freeways and Their Portraits in Chicano L.A.," Landscape, Vol 26, No. 1 (2007).

"Race and Ethnicity," in Karen Haltunnen, ed., Blackwell Companion to American Cultural History (Blackwell, forthcoming, 2007)

"Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland and the Cold War (Sub)Urban Imaginary," Journal of Urban History, Vol. 31, No. 1*

*Reprint, Joyce Appleby, ed., Best American History Essays, 2006 (New York: Palgrave for the Organization of American Historians, 2006).

"Revisiting the Chavez Ravine: Baseball, Urban Renewal and the Gendered Civic Culture of Postwar Los Angeles," in Alicia Gaspar de Alba, ed. Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities, (Palgrave Macmillian, 2002).

"Roundtable on the State of Chicano Studies," Aztlan: A Journal of Chicana and Chicano Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Fall 2002)

"Dark City: White Flight and the Urban Science Fiction Film in Postwar America," in Daniel Bernardi, ed. Classic Whiteness: Race and the Hollywood Studio System, (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

"The Folklore of the Freeway: Space, Identity and Culture in Postwar Los Angeles," in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring 1998)*

*Translated into Spanish and reprinted in 'AULA 2: Architecture and Urbanism in Las Americas.'

Awards

Visting Fellow, Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, 2007-2008.

Warren Fellowship, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 2004-2005.

Donald J. Pfluger Local History Award, Historical Society of Southern California, 2006.

Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1999-2000.

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