Participant Info
- First Name
- Elaine
- Last Name
- Lewinnek
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- elewinnek@fullerton.edu
- Affiliation
- California State University, Fullerton
- Website URL
- http://amst.fullerton.edu/faculty/e_lewinnek.aspx
- Keywords
- housing, suburbs, urban history, California, Orange County, Chicago
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I research the diversity of America’s suburbs. My first book is The Working Man’s Reward: Chicago’s Early Suburbs and the Roots of American Sprawl (Oxford University Press, 2014), analyzing working-class homeownership from the great Chicago fire of 1871 to the race riots of 1919 and beyond. My second book is A People’s Guide to Orange County (University of California Press, forthcoming), a bottom-up history of the too-often-overlooked stories that have happened in this highly-touristed but little-understood space.
I received my Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1995 and teach at California State University, Fullerton. I teach classes including The American Dream, Food Cultures, California Cultures, Stories of Los Angeles, and History of Suburbs.
- Recent Publications
Elaine Lewinnek and Tom Zoellner, “Seeing Orange County,” Boom California
Ryan Reft, Elaine Lewinnek, and Thuy Vo Dang, “Forthcoming People’s Guide Unpeels Orange County History,” KCET
Elaine Lewinnek, “Social Studies Controversies in 1960s California: The Fight for Public Memory and the Rise of the New Right,” Pacific Historic Review (Feb. 2015)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Environment, Race, Urban History
