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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United States

Research Interests

20th Century U.S. History; urban cultures; 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:

“Essaying Los Angeles,” Cambridge Companion to Los Angeles (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

“Social Flashpoints,” in Blackwell Companion to the History of Los Angeles (Blackwell Publishing, 2009).

“Race, Culture, Politics and Urban Renewal: An Introduction,” in Eric Avila and Mark Rose, eds., Journal of Urban History (special issue, “Race, Culture, Politics and Urban Renewal”), Vol. 35, No. 3 (March, 2009).

"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, 2008).

"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, 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 (2005).

*Reprint, Joyce Appleby, ed., Best American History Essays, (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

Faculty Development Grant, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, 2009-2010.

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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