Ross CVSTEVEN JOSEPH ROSS 7/2018History DepartmentUniversity of Southern California Los Angeles, Ca. 90089-0034sjross@usc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:

Ph.D. Princeton University June 1980M.A. Princeton University June 1975B. Phil. Oxford University June 1973B.A. Columbia University June 1971

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

Full Professor Univ. of Southern Ca. 9/94 - present Director Casden Institute…Jewish Life 8/15 - presentCo-Director Casden Institute…Jewish Life 8/14 – 8/15Co-Director L.A. Institute for the Humanities, 7/98 - 8/14Associate Professor Univ. of Southern Ca. 9/84 - 8/94Assistant Professor Univ. of Southern Ca. 9/78 - 8/84 Instructor Princeton University 9/77 - 6/78Preceptor Princeton University 1/77 - 6/77

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS:

Winner of Disabled American Veterans’ BUGLE Award for 2018, DAV National Convention, July 14, 2018, Reno, NVHitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America named a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History for 2018; on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller List for 14 weeks; named a “Buzz Book for Fall/Winter 2017” by PublishersLunch, May 16, 2017; named by New York Post, as one of “The Most Thrilling and Fascinating Books of 2017,” Dec. 23, 2017; Financial Times Recommended Summer Reading, June 29, 2018; nominated for a National Book AwardNEH Faculty Fellowship for Hitler in Los Angeles, January-December 2015Editor, The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual, Fall 2015-present Myron and Marion Casden Director, Casden Institute for the Study of American Jewish Life, Fall 2015-present Finalist, Film Scholars Award, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Jan. 2014 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Paris 8, June 2013 Regular Interlocutor for “Academy Conversations,” a series of post-screening interviews with personnel from films screened at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, Ca., June 2012—2015 Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, nominated for Pulitzer

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Ross CVCovert Award in Mass Communication History (for best article of the year, “Struggles For the Screen"), Assn for Eductn in Journalism & Mass Communication, Aug. 1992Finalist, Kovacs Award (best article of 1991), Society of Cinema Studies, 6/92USC Associates Award for Teaching Excellence, March 1992USC Fund for Projects in Innovative Teaching Award, 6/91-8/91Arnold and Lois Graves Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Teaching in the Humanities, awarded Dec. 1989 (for 1/91-6/91)John R. and Dora Haynes Foundation Research Fellowship, 7/88-8/89U.S.C. Faculty Research and Innovation Fund Award, 7/87-8/87Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Scholarship, 3/87 Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award for Workers On the Edge, March 1987Finalist, Frederick Jackson Turner Award (for best 1st book in American History), Organization of American Historians, April 1986Honored by City of Cincinnati with Proclamation Declaring October 28, 1985 “Dr. Steven Ross Day" in CincinnatiHuntington Library Research Fellowship, 6/85-9/85Divisional Representative chosen to teach in special Irvine Foundation-USC graduate program for High School History Teachers, Fall 1985 U.S.C. Social Science Division Distinguished Teaching Award, 9/83-6/84U.S.C. Nominee, Howard Foundation Fellowship 11/83U.S.C. University Scholar 1/83 - 1/84Haynes Foundation Summer Research Fellowship 6/82 - 9/82Shelby Cullom Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship (Princeton University) 9/81-6/82N.E.H. Summer Research Fellowship 6/81 -9/81Finalist, Allan Nevins Award (for best Ph.D. in American History for 1980) Fletcher M. Green Award, Journal of Southern History (best article by graduate student) 11/80Josephine de Karman Fellowship, 9/77 - 6/78Elizabeth Procter Fellowship (for distinguished work in history) 9/76-6/78Rockefeller Fellowship to attend the Family and Community Summer Training Institute in Quantitative Methodology, Newberry Library, 6/76 - 7/76Princeton University Fellowships 9/73 - 6/76University of Oxford Research Fellowship 6/72 - 9/72Sir Arthur Goodheart Fellowship 6/71Columbia College Alumni Association Achievement Award 6/71Runner Up, Eisenhower Award (Varsity athlete with highest GPA), Columbia University, 5/1971

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

Book in Progress: City of Hate, City of Myth: A Mother and Daughter Spy Team, Rising Anti-Semitism, and the Myth of the Good War

Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi and Fascist Plots Against Hollywood and America (Bloomsbury Press, 2017); currently in 4th printing; published in Chinese by Shanghai Insight Media; audio book version produced by Blackstone Audio. Website: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/hitler-in-los-angeles/index

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Series Editor, The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual (Purdue University Press), Fall 2015-present

Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). Paperback edition April 2013. Being translated into Hungarian and published by Holnap Kiado, 2015. Documentary version of Hollywood Left and Right is being developed by Pacific Street Films.

Movies and American Society (Malden, MA & Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002). Revised and expanded 2nd edition published 2014.

Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America (Princeton University Press, 1998). Two printings in 1998; paperback edition, December 1999. Translated into Turkish, fall 2014

Workers On the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788-1890 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985). Paperback edition, June 1987; second printing June 1989. Re-issued by Figueroa Press, fall 2003

DOCUMENTARIES

Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, optioned for 2-3 part documentary by Pacific Street Film Projects

Workers On the Edge adapted to the screen in a documentary entitled They Build the City: The Working People of Cincinnati, produced by the Sylvis Society (Cincinnati) and funded by the Ohio Humanities Council.

ARTICLES, OP-EDS, and BOOK CHAPTERS :

Short piece: “American Nazis Meet in Los Angeles, (July 26, 1933),” Moments in American History that Matter Today, TIME magazine, July 2018 http://time.com/5314430/american-history-moments-matter-today/

Commentary on “Fast between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to Protest Munich and Vietnam,” in David Myers, ed., The Eternal Dissident: Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act (Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018), 92-93.

Article: “When Hitler’s Henchmen Called the Shots in Hollywood,” Daily Beast, Dec. 3, 2017https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-hitlers-henchman-called-the-shots-in-hollywood?via=newsletter&source=Weekend

Op-Ed: “The Hollywood Nazi Who Spied for America,” Washington Post, Oct. 25, 2017

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Op-Ed: “How a network of citizen-spies foiled Nazi plots to exterminate Jews in 1930s L.A.,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 8, 2017http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ross-nazis-of-los-angeles-hitler-in-la-20171008-story.html

Article: “When the Nazis Tried to Exterminate Hollywood,” Hollywood Reporter, Sept. 21, 2017http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/nazis-tried-exterminate-hollywood-book-excerpt-1040980

Profiled in “The Nazi Sites of Los Angeles: A walking tour of where the Fascists and Hitlerites Gathered in California,” Talk of the Town column, The New Yorker, Sept. 25, 2017https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/25/the-nazi-sites-of-los-angeles

Editor, Themed issue, “From Shtel to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood,” Casden Annual: The Jewish Role in American Life series, Volume 14, 2017.

“Movie-Star Politics On and Off the Screen: Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, and Warren Beatty,” in Violaine Roussel and Anurima Banerji, eds. How Art Does Politics (New York and London: Routledge, 2016), 140-66.

Editor, Themed issue, “Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in America” Casden Annual: The Jewish Role in American Life series, Volume 13, 2016

Letter to the Editor regarding David Denby review of Ben Urwand, “The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact With Hitler,” The New Yorker, September 16, 2014

Op-Ed, “At Issue: Are Hollywood Celebrities Politically out of Touch with Mainstream America?” CQ Researcher, May 11, 2012, p. 441, www.cqresearcher.com

“Five Reasons Hollywood Is Not a Bastion of Liberalism,” PostPolitics Blog, Washington Post, Feb 24, 2012, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/political-bookworm/post/five-reasons-hollywood-is-not-a-bastion-of-liberalism/2012/02/24/gIQAoO0RYR_blog.html.

“The Five Best Books on Political Hollywood,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 10, 2011, online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203802204577066230173706086.html?KEYWORDS=Steven+J+Ross#

Slide Show/Article, “Hollywood’s Surprising Political History,” Huffington Post, Dec. 1, 2011, www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-ross/hollywood-politics_b_998890.html

Op-Ed, “Obama, Take a Page From Reagan,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 14, 2011www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ross-storytelling-20111014,0,284101.story

“Hollywood Left and Right,” The Page 99 Test,” Sept. 6, 2011page99test.blogspot.com/2011/09/steven-j-rosss-hollywood-left-and-right.html

“Hollywood, Right-Wing Powerhouse” Salon.com, August 31, 2011, www.SALON.COM/entertainment/movies/celebrity/index.html?story=/ent/movies/2011/08/31/hollywood_left_and_right

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“Film and Labor,” Melvyn Dubofsky, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)

“Social History of American Film,” Lynn Dumenil, ed., Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)

“Politics in American Film,” in Michael Kazin, ed., The Princeton Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009), 569-74.

“Big Government? Learning from the Past,” Huffington Post, January 28, 2009, www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-ross/big-government-learning-f_b_162070.html

“The Next Agnew,” Op-Ed in Washington Independent, Sept. 15, 2008 www.washingtonindependent.com/5871/the-next-agnew

“A New Democratic Coalition,” Washington Independent, Aug. 22, 2008 www.washingtonindependent.com/view/a-new-democratic

“Charlton Heston and Image Politics,” Huffington Post, April 10, 2008 www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-ross/charlton-heston-and-image_b_96163.html

“The Politicization of Hollywood Before World War II: Anti-Fascism, Anti-Communism, and Anti-Semitism,” The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review, 5 (2007), 1-28.

“Jargon and the Crisis of Readability: Methodology, Language, and the Future of Film History,” Cinema Journal, 44 (Fall 2004), 130-33; part of special Forum: “In Focus: Film History, or a Baedeker Guide to the Historical Turn”

“21st Century Book-Burning,” Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed page, Oct. 13, 2004 “Confessions of a Nazi Spy: Warner Brothers, Anti-Fascism, and the Politicization of Hollywood,” in Warners' War: Politics, Pop Culture & Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood, ed. by Martin Kaplan, Johanna Blakley (Los Angeles: Norman Lear Center Press, 2004), 48-59.

“The Visual Politics of Class: Silent Film and the Public Sphere,” Film International 2, (2003), 44-50

“Hollywood, Jews, and America,” Reviews in American History 30 (Dec. 2002), 622-630

"How Hollywood Became Hollywood: Money, Politics, and Movies,” in William Deverell and Tom Sitton, eds., Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), 255-76

“American Workers, American Movies: Historiography and Methodology,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 59 (Spring 2001), 81-105

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“The Seen, The Unseen, and the Obscene: Pre-Code Hollywood,” Reviews in American History, 28 (June 2000) 270-77

“A Journey of Discovery: Researching and Writing Working-Class Hollywood," Stanford Humanities Review, 7 (Winter 1999), 50-71

"The Revolt of the Audiences: Reconsidering Audiences and Reception During the Silent Era,” in Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby, eds, American Movie Audiences: From the Turn of the Century to the Sound Era (British Film Institute, 1999), 88-107

"Get Me Rewrite: Class Warfare on 'Titanic'," Los Angeles Times, January 4, 1998

"Beyond the Screen: History, Class, and the Movies," in David James and Rick Berg, eds., The Hidden Foundation: Cinema and the Question of Class (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 26-55.

"Labor Politics and Silent Film," in Arizona International Film Festival: Celebrating the Film Centennial 1995.

"America’s Labor Day: The Dilemma of a Workers’ Celebration,” (co-authored with Michael Kazin) Journal of American History, 78 (March 1992), 1294-1323

"Struggles For the Screen: Workers, Radicals, and the Political Uses of Silent Film," American Historical Review, 96 (April 1991), 333-67

"Living For the Weekend: The Shorter Hours Movement in International Perspective," Labour/Le Travail, 27 (Spring 1991), 267-82

"Cinema and Class Conflict: Labor, Capital, the State, and the Movies," in John Milton Cooper, Jr. and Charles E. Neu, eds., The Wilson Era: Essays In Honor of Arthur S. Link (Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson, 1990), 83-121

"Labor, Ideology, Class, and Gender in the Early Republic: Essays From a SHEAR Symposium" and "The Transformation of Republican Ideology,” in Journal of the Early Republic, 10 (1990), 311-313, 323-331.

"The Unknown Hollywood," History Today 40, (April 1990), 40-46.

"Labor Day," in Los Angeles Business Journal, Sept. 1989, pp. 1, 3.

"We Who Built the Queen City,” Queen City Heritage, 47 (Summer 1989), 13-28

“’Objects of Charity': Poverty, Poor Relief, and the Rise of the Almshouse in Early Eighteenth-Century New York City," in William Pencek and Conrad Wright, eds., Authority and Resistance

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"The Politicization of the Working Class: Production, Ideology, Culture, and Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati," Social History, 11 (May 1986), 171-195

"Integrating Business History and Labor History," Business and Economic History, 15 (1986), 41-50 (with Edwin Perkins)

"Industrialization and the Changing Images of Progress in Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati,” Queen City Heritage, 42 (Summer 1985), 3-24.

"The Culture of Political Economy: Henry George and the American Working Class," Southern California Quarterly, 65 (Summer 1983), 145-166.

"Political Economy for the Masses: Henry George," democracy, 2 (July 1982), 125-134.

"Freed Soil, Freed Labor, Freed Men: John Eaton and the Davis Bend Experiment, Journal of Southern History, 44 (May 1978), 213-232.

ARTICLES REPRINTED IN OTHER COLLECTIONS

“21st Century Book-Burning,” reprinted [Australia] The Guardian, Dec. 15, 2004; Newark Star Ledger, Oct 18, 2004; Tallahassee Democrat, Oct. 18, 2004; commondreams.org (as one of ten best Op-Ed pieces of the week); History News Network, Oct. 16, 2004; Albion Monitor http://albionmonitor.com); People's Weekly World (www.pww.org) (12/11/04); and at least thirteen other blogs.

"Freed Soil, Freed Labor, Freed Men: John Eaton and the Davis Bend Experiment," in Donald G. Nieman, ed., African-American Life in the Post Emancipation South, 1861-1900 (Garland Publishing Inc., 1993-4)

"Cinema and Class Conflict" reprinted in Robert Sklar and Charles Musser, Resisting Images: Essays on Cinema and History (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990), 68-107

"The Unknown Hollywood," reprinted in Robert James Maddox, ed., American History: Vol. II Early Modern Through 20th Century (Dushkin Publishing Group, 1991), pp. 111-116

ELECTRONIC WORKS AND PUBLICATIONS

WEBSITE DESIGNS:

Visualizing Ideology: Labor vs Capital in the Age of Silent Film. www.usc.edu/schools/college/history/hist225g/

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Quoted in article, Joanna Piacenza, “Putting a Number on Hollywood’s Perceived Liberalism,” Morning Consult, March 1, 2018https://morningconsult.com/2018/03/01/putting-number-hollywoods-perceived-liberalism/

Quoted in article, Judy Kurtz, “Is television heading for ‘dump on Trump’ overload?” The Hill, Jan. 31, 2018, http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/371509-is-television-heading-for-dump-on-trump-overload

Quoted in article, Neil Gross, “Why Is Hollywood So Liberal?” New York Times, Jan. 28, 2018https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/hollywood-liberal.htmlInterview discussing Hitler in Los Angeles, “The Lawyer’s Guild With Jim Lafferty,” KPFK, Dec. 20, 2017 Taped Conversation, Steven J. Ross in Conversation with Jon Wiener about Hitler in Los Angeles, Book TV, C-SPAN2, Dec. 9, 2017 https://www.c-span.org/video/?435153-1/hitler-los-angeles

Interview Segment, “American Nazis Hoped to Hit Hollywood By Blowing Up Homes,” Press Play, Madeleine Brand, KCRW, Nov. 28, 2017, https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/are-you-a-jerk-how-to-tell#seg-american-nazis-hoped-to-hit-hollywood-by-blowing-up-homes-of-famous-jews

Interview Segment, “When Nazis Tried to Take Over Los Angeles,” A. Martinez, Take Two, KPCC, Los Angeles, Nov. 27, 2017http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2017/11/27/60389/when-nazis-tried-to-take-over-la/Interview Segment, “Nazis in Los Angeles,” The Lowdown, WOMR-FM, Provincetown, MA, Nov. 27, 2107

John Williams, “Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Hitler in Los Angeles,’” New York Times, Oct. 29, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/books/review/tell-us-5-things-about-your-book-hitler-in-los-angeles.html?_r=0

Featured article, Anna Diamond, “The Nazis’ Plan to Infiltrate Los Angeles And the Man Who Kept Them at Bay,” Smithsonian Magazine, Oct. 26, 2017https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/stopping-nazi-plots-1930s-los-angeles-180966961/

Cover Story, Review, Interview, and Book Excerpt, “The Jews Who Fought Against ‘Hitler in Los Angeles,’” Jewish Journal, Oct. 26, 2017, http://jewishjournal.com/cover_story/226379/jews-fought-hitler-los-angeles/

Featured article, “When Hitler sent his minions to LA: The true-life Nazi plot against Hollywood, Times of Israel, Oct. 10, 2017, http://www.timesofisrael.com/when-hitler-sent-his-minions-to-la-the-true-life-nazi-plot-against-hollywood/

Featured article about my book, Patt Morrison column, “How Hitler's fascism almost took hold in Los Angeles,” Los Angeles Times, Sept. 27, 2017http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-ol-patt-morrison-steven-ross-nazi-los-angeles-20170927-htmlstory.html

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Quoted in New York Times story “Trump to skip Kennedy Center Honors awards program,” Aug.20, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/08/19/us/politics/ap-us-trump-kennedy-center-honors.html

Interview, Ronald Reagan’s political evolution, SOFILM Film Magazine (France/Spain), June 23, 2017

Interviewed and quoted in French documentary, “The birth of a film industry: Hollywood and World War I,” France24, June 23, 2017www.france24.com/en/20170623-video-reporters-hollywood-wwi-birth-film-industry-usa-cinema

On Air interview, Danielle Smith Show, News Talk 770, Calgary, Canada, May 17, 2017

Interviewed for Sacramento Bee article on the enduring legacy of HUAC’s Loyalty Oath, May 16, 2017

Quoted in article, “How will Hollywood tackle Trump?” CNBC News, March 17, 2017 http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/17/how-will-hollywood-tackle-trump.html On air interview, “Today’s Hollywood Conservatives,” The Michael Smerconish Program, SiriusXM - POTUS Channel 124, March 14, 2017

Quoted in “In liberal Hollywood, a conservative minority faces backlash in the age of Trump,” Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2017 http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-conservatives-hollywood-20170311-story.html

On air radio interview, “Hollywood and Donald Trump,” Swiss National Radio, interviewed Feb. 16, 2017 for airdate over Oscar weekend.

On air interview, “Hollywood, The Oscars, and Donald Trump,” BBC The World, Talking Movies, recorded Feb. 3, 2017

Quoted in article, “A-list Finding It Harder to be Apolitical,” Toronto Star, Feb. 3, 2017https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2017/02/03/a-list-finding-it-harder-to-be-apolitical.html

On air interview, “Hollywood’s Response to President Trump,” Ted Johnson, Variety Podcast on SiriusXM's political channel POTUS, Feb. 2, 2017.

On air interview,” Trump vs Hollywood,” ARTE TV (French-German-Swiss), Feb. 2, 2017, https://vimeo.com/199307567

On Air Interviewed, “Hollywood and the Trump Presidency,” Marketplace, American Public Radio, Nov. 11, 2016.

Quoted in article, “Hollywood comes out in force for Clinton leaving only the D-list for Trump,” Reuters interview picked up by Australian News, Nov. 7, 2016. www.news.com.au/world/north-america/hollywood-comes-out-in-force-for-clinton-leaving-only-the-dlist-for-trump/news-story/

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On Air Interview, “What the Golden Age of Hollywood can reveal about the AT&T-Time Warner Deal,” Marketplace, American Public Radio, Oct. 24, 2016, http://www.marketplace.org/2016/10/24/economy/att-time-warner-merger

On Screen Interview, “Hollywood’s Liberal and Conservative Communities,” BBC News [Television], recorded Oct. 19, 2016

On Screen Interview, “Hollywood and Politics after World War II,” CNN documentary series on Hollywood and Politics, recorded Oct. 7, 2016, Los Angeles

Interviewed, “The Power of Celebrity Endorsements,” Danielle Smith Show, News Talk 770 Calgary, Canada, August 9, 2016

On Screen Interview, “Hollywood and the Presidential Election,” Channel Plus documentary, recorded July 25, 2016, Los Angeles

Interviewed’ for story, “George Clooney’s Political Ambitions,” Grazia (Italian magazine), June 16, 2016.

Interviewed for story, “Trump and Fascism,” NBCNews.com, June 14, 2016

Quoted in “Celebrity endorsements can boost presidential candidates' coffers and popularity,” Canadian Broadcast Corporation, June 3, 2016 http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hollywood-endorsements-1.3612162

Interviewed, Raw-TV and CNN series on Hollywood and Politics, May 19, 2016

Quoted in story, “Why Famously Liberal Hollywood Loves Hillary Clinton More Than Bernie Sanders,” Newsweek, April 27, 2016http://www.newsweek.com/hollywood-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-celebrities-money-donations-453243

Quoted in story, “In the battle for Hollywood Endorsements—and Cash—Clinton rules,” Reuters, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-hollywood-idUSKCN0XN2Q8

Interviewed for story, “Selling the Recession: Hollywood and the Financial Crisis,” The Politic, April 16, 2016 http://th epolitic.org/selling-the-recession-hollywood-and-the-financial-crisis/

Lead Interview, Andrew Delaney and Zach Carter, “America’s ‘Second’ Civil War,” Huffington Post, Politics section, March 25, 2016, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-fascist_us_56f4476de4b0143a9b47bd2e

Interviewed for Podcast, “Is Donald Trump a Fascist,” Huffington Post Podcast, March 25, 2016, https://soundcloud.com/so-that-happened-1

Quoted in “How Did Hollywood End Up in Hollywood?” KCET online magazine article, Feb.

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Interview and Quoted, Judy Kurtz, “Kanye West for President? How Flirting With Politics Became a Popular Celebrity Pastime,” Pop and Politics Column, E, Feb. 9, 2016http://www.eonline.com/news/738079/kanye-west-for-president-how-flirting-with-politics-became-a-popular-celebrity-pastime

Quoted in story, Adam Howard, “#OscarsSoWhite: Will the Academy Nominations Lack Diversity Again?” NBC News, Jan. 12, 2016www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/oscarssowhite-will-academy-nominations-lack-diversity-again-n494906

On Air Interview, “Black Nominees and this Year’s Oscars,” Doug McIntyre Show, KABC Radio, AM790, Jan. 4, 2016

Featured interview, “Arnold Schwarzenegger,” Personne ne Bouge (French-Swiss television series), ARTE, Dec. 7, 2015.

Quoted in story “Why some conservatives say Trump talk is fascist,” CNN.com news, Nov. 25, 2015, www.cnn.com/2015/11/24/politics/donald-trump-fascism/

On Air Interview, TV Story Profile of Arnold Schwarzenegger, French Arte TV, interviewed in Los Angeles, Oct. 19, 2015

Radio Interview, “Hitler in Los Angeles,” dedicated 30 minutes show for Spycast, recorded before live audience at Politicon Convention, Los Angels, Oct. 9, 2015

Interviewed for article on “Presidential Celebrity Endorsements,” Boston Globe, Sept. 24, 2015

Introduction and Organizer, "An American Jew in Poland, or The Country in My Head," Casden Conversation Series, Sept. 20, 2015, Los Angeles, Ca.

“California Noir: Hollywood and Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s,” California Past Imagined Conference, Sidney Harmon Polymathic Academy, USC, Aug. 26, 2015

Introduction to Screening of Double Indemnity (1944), California Past Imagined Conference, Sidney Harmon Polymathic Academy, USC, Aug. 26, 2015

On Air Interview for Feature Documentary, “Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy Blache,” interviewed Los Angeles, July 10, 2015

Interview, “Myth of ‘Liberal Hollywood': TV Makes Strides in LGBT World, But What About Film? Variety, June 29, 2015, variety.com/2015/film/news/lgbt-tv-film-liberal-hollywood-myth-1201529566/

Interview, Matt Donnelly, “The Wrap” for article on Celebrity Endorsement of Presidential candidates, March 5, 2015

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Ross CVInterview, Helene Bissiere, Le Point, a leading French newsweekly, “Hollywood, Politics, and the 2016 Elections,” interview Jan. 29, 2015.

On Air Interview, “Codes & Conspiracies: American Nazis,” television documentary for AHCTV, Feb. 23, 2015, AHCTV

Interview, Phil Tinline, “Day of the Locust: California and the American Dream,” BBC Radio, Los Angeles, Feb. 22, 2015

Quoted in article by Emily Heil, “Is YouTube-famous the new famous? White House turns (again) to Internet stars.” Washington Post, Jan. 19, 2015 www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2015/01/19/is-youtube-famous-the-new-famous-white-house-turns-again-to-internet-stars/

On Screen Interview for televised news story on “Nazis collaboration with Hollywood studios during WWII,” NTV (Russian television network), Oct. 31, 2014

Quoted in article, “Did Hollywood Studios Help the Nazis?” Tom Brook, BBC Culture, London, Oct. 21, 2014 www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130930-did-hollywood-help-the-nazis

Interviewed and quoted in Eliot Nelson, “Lights! Camera! Jesus! How Christians Are Building Their Own Hollywood,” HuffingtonPost, Oct. 2, 2014www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/02/christian-film-left-behind-nicolas-cage_n_5901280.html

Interviewed and quoted in Sean Kennedy, “The Strange Political Bedfellows Behind 'The Giver',” CNN Aug. 18, 2014, www.cnn.com/2014/08/18/politics/hollywood-liberal-conservative-the-giver/

Interviewed by KPCC for radio segment about the Obama fundraiser being held at Shonda Rhimes' home on July 22, 2014; radio aired July 23, 2014, KPCC, Pasadena

Interviewed by Eliot Nelson, Huffington Post, for article on the history of conservative and Christian filmmakers in the US, July 22, 2014

Interviewed by Danish media for article, “Hollywood in Decline?” May 29, 2014

Interviewed for article about “Foreign Directors in Hollywood,” for Agence France-Presse (AFP), Feb. 25, 2014

Interviewed by French TV, Arte, for programs on (1) The Vietnam War on Film, Sept. 12, 2013; The Controversy Over Ben Urwand’s The Collaboration, Oct. 11, 2014

Quoted in Tom Brook, “Did Hollywood Studios help the Nazis?” BBC Culture, “The Reel World,” September 30, 2013, www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130930-did-hollywood-help-the-nazis

Interviewed, “The Controversy Over The Collaboration,” on “Which Way LA,” KCRW, Sept. 12, 2013,

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Ross CVInterviewed for Television show, “Secret Societies of Hollywood,” E network, interview Sept 6, 2013

Quoted in Tom Brook, “Did Hollywood Studios help the Nazis?” BBC Culture, THE REEL WORLD, 30 September 2013, www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130930-did-hollywood-help-the-nazis

Radio Interview, Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics on “Books and Arts Daily,” ABC [Australian Broadcasting Corp] Radio National, Sydney, Aug. 12, 2013. www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/hollywood-left-and-right/4871082

Panelist, HuffPost Live, “Celebrity Selfie,” Live Online Discussion, July 23, 2013

Radio Interview, “Political Stars,” German National Broadcaster "Deutschlandradio" July 11, 2013, wissen.dradio.de/hollywood-political-stars.36.de.html?dram:article_id=252606

Quoted, “When Hollywood Held Hands with Hitler,” Chronicle of Higher Education, July 10, 2013, chr onicle.com/article/When-Hollywood-Held-Hands-With/140189/

Quoted, “Scholar Asserts That Hollywood Avidly Aided Nazis” (article about Urwand book), New York Times, June 25, 2013

Quoted in “Bringing the History of Jews in L.A. into Clearer Focus,” Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2013

Panel Presentation, “History: The Cold War—Hollywood and Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner, Hide In Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002 (Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2003) American Historical Review, 110 (Dec. 2005), 1557-1558.

Lizabeth Cohen. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf Beyond,” LA Times-USC Festival of Books, Book TV, Los Angeles, April 21, 2013

Interview, “Louis B. Mayer, Republican Politics and Hollywood,” KPFK, April 16, 2013

Interview, Hollywood Left and Right, The Scholars Corner, KPFK, April 14, 2013

On Air Interview with Al Jezeera regarding “Political Films Up For Oscars: Lincoln, Argo, and Zero Dark Thirty,” Feb. 20, 2013, Los Angeles,

Featured Interview, “La Stratégie du Spectacle,” Next.Liberation “Intelligence Service” section, Nov. 13, 2012, http://next.liberation.fr/musique/2012/11/13/la-strategie-du-spectacle_858470

Interview, “Hollywood and the Presidential Election,” Agence France-Presse (AFP), Oct. 24, 2012

On air participant, “Do Films Released During Election Season Affect Voters?”

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Ross CVHuffpost online discussion. Oct. 22, 2012

On Air Interview, “And The Academy Award Goes To…”, BBC Radio 4, discussion of On the Waterfront and In the Heat of the Night, Los Angeles, Oct. 3, 2012,

Interview, “Hollywood and Politics,” CNN.comn, Washington, D.C., Oct. 1, 2012stage-wilson.p2technology.com/event/hollywood-left-and-right-how-movie-stars-shaped-american-politics

Interview and Quoted in “Celebs and Pols: When the Star Alliance Misfires,” Sept. 1, 2012, AP article, www.9news.com/news/article/286655/343/Celebs-and-pols-When-the-star-alliance-misfires-

Historical Commentary, Camelot (Blu-Ray edition), fall 2012

Interview, Reliable Source (Roxanne Roberts), “Obama’s new celebrity fundraising trick: Pick your own star,” Washington Post, June 14, 2012 www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/post/obamas-new-celebrity-fundraising-trick-pick-your-own-star/2012/06/13/gJQACs0oaV_blog.html

On Air Interview, “Obama’s Support of Same Sex Marriage: The Impact on Hollywood,” CNN Newsroom, June 6, 2012

On Air Interview, “Why Do Voters Care What Hollywood Thinks?” Varney and Company, Fox Business Network, May 11, 2012, www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/varney-co/index.html

Interview, “Celebrities and Politics,” Patt Morrison Show, KPPC, Pasadena, May 10, 2012

Quoted in “George Clooney's Obama fundraiser uses star power with a twist,” LA Times, May 10, 2012, www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-clooney-obama-20120510,0,5149825.story

Interview, Hollywood Left and Right, BookTV-CSPAN, at USC-LA Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, April 22, 2012, www.c-spanvideo.org/program/LeftandR

Quoted, “GOP field finds itself star-crossed: Celeb appeal on the stump can be limited,” Ted Johnson, Variety, March 17, 2012 www.variety.com/article/VR1118051559

Quoted, “As Election 2012 nears, Hollywood Republicans are braving the limelight,” Gloria Goodale, Christian Science Monitor, February 29, 2012, www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/0229/As-Election-2012-nears-Hollywood-Republicans-are-braving-the-limelight

Panelist, “Warrior Nation, Hollywood Propaganda, & Prisons Driving Immigration Policy,” The Point, internet television, Jan. 14, 2012, Culver City, Ca. www.democraticunderground.com/10176575

Interview, for story on the film, The Artist, for [Canadian] National Post, January 11, 2012 arts.nationalpost.com/2012/01/11/a-dialogue-brews-over-the-artists-oscar-contention/

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Ross CVOn Air Interview, Segment on the Importance of Celebrity Endorsements Regarding Controversial Political Issues, “Connect,” CBC TV, Jan. 10, 2012, Toronto, Canada

Interviewed, Discussion of Hollywood Left and Right, “The Milt Rosenberg Show,” WGN Radio 720, Chicago, January 5, 2012, www.wgnradio.com/shows/ext720/

Interviewed, “The Monocle Weekly,” Monocle Weekly Radio, London, December 10, 2011

Interview, “The Hutchison Report: Town Hall of the Air,” KPFK, Los Angeles, Nov. 26, 2011

Interviewed, “What sayeth the stars? Not enough minorities in Hollywood” - CNN.comBy Zohreen Adamjee and Michael Martinez, CNN, Nov. 8, 2011, www.stylemagazine.com/what-sayeth-the-stars-not-enough-minorities-in-hollywood/

Interview, “The Fairness Doctrine with Patrick O'Heffernan and Chuck Morse,” CyberStationUSA.com, Oct. 27, 2011

Interview, “A World in Time” with Lewis Lapham, Bloomberg.com and Bloomberg Terminal, Oct. 26, 2011, www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-04/reagan-got-right-wing-pulpit-at-general-electric-lewis-lapham.html

Interview, “The Current,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Calgary, Oct. 21, 2011www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2011/10/21/celebrity-activists/

Interview, “The Fairness Doctrine with Patrick O'Heffernan and Chuck Morse,” CyberStationUSA.com, Oct. 5, 2011

Interview, Hollywood Left and Right, “Patt Morrison Show," KPPC, Pasadena, Oct. 3, 2011scpr.ba0.biz/programs/patt-morrison/2011/10/04/20923/hollywood-left-and-right-how-movie-stars-shaped-am

Interview, Hollywood Left and Right, “David Sirota Show" Am 760 Progressive Talk, Portland, Sept. 27, 2011

Interview, Hollywood Left and Right, KCBS radio, San Francisco, Sept.22, 2011

Interview, Hollywood Left and Right, “The Morning Show,” KPOJ radio, Portland, Sept. 22, 2011

American History TV, CSPAN video, “Hollywood and American Politics,” California Historical Society, San Francisco, Sept. 21, 2011, www.c-spanvideo.org/program/301688-1 and www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Hollywoodan

Interview, Hollywood Left and Right, “TruthDig.Com Radio,” KPFK radio, Sept.21, 2011

Interview, Hollywood Left and Right, “Four O'Clock Wednesdays with Jon Wiener, “KPFK radio, Sept. 14, 2011

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Ross CVInterview, Hollywood Left and Right, “Think,” with Chris Boyd, KERA Public Radio, Dallas, Sept. 13, 2011

Interview about Hollywood Left and Right, The Lawyer’s Guild Show, KPFK radio, Sept. 8, 2011

Interview for Sandy Banks, article, “The Wrong Message on Unions,” Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2011

Interview/quoted in Sunday NY Times Arts and Entertainment section story about British autoworkers, Leah Rozen, “Hollywood’s Vanishing Have-Nots,” Nov. 14, 2010

Historical Consultant and On-Air Expert, “Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood,” Turner Classic Movies (TCM), airdate October 2010.

“Marketplace,” “What’s Next For Arnold Schwarzenegger,” Sept. 27, 2010, American Public Radio

Guest Host, “Unions—Love Lost?” on The Politics of Culture, KCRW radio, Santa Monica, Ca., March 9, 2010,

Historical Consultant, KGBH “The Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr.”, PBS, February 2010

Guest Host, “The Los Angeles Berlin Wall Project,” on The Politics of Culture, KCRW radio, Nov. 3, 2009, Santa Monica, Cal.

Interview, “Obama’s Victory,” [French] Elle, Nov. 4, 2008

In Studio Expert, Commenting on Presidential Elections, Evening News, KNBC, Burbank, Nov. 4, 2008

On Camera Interview, “Obama, Vibe and X-Box: The Impact,” CNN, American Morning, Oct. 23, 2008

Interview for article on “The Impact of Celebrity Endorsements on Presidential Campaigns,” TODAY Show Web, Oct. 15, 2008

On Air Interview, “Estimating Likely Audience Responses to Oliver Stone’s “W”,” CNN, American Morning, Oct. 13, 2008

On Air Interview, “Celebrities and Politics,” CTV (Canadian Television) Special, Toronto, Canada, Sept. 26, 2008 [airdate Oct. 9, 2008]

On Air Interview/Expert Commentary, “You Must Remember This: The Warner Brothers,” PBS American Master’s Series, Sept. 22-24, 2008

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Ross CVOn Air Interview/Expert Commentary, “The Brothers Warner,” PBS American Master’s Series, Sept. 29, 2008

Interview, Celebrities and Politics, Dallas Morning News, Aug. 24, 2008

Interview, for article on Hollywood Celebrities and the Democratic Convention, Elle (Paris edition), Aug. 22, 2008

Interview, Segment on release of Obama and McCain Biographical Comic Books, for “The Situation Room,” CNN, July 31, 2008

Interview, The Impact of Celebrity Endorsements on the Presidential Campaign. Newsmax magazine, June 24, 2008

Expert Commentary, Capricorn One, re-release, Lionsgate Studio, June 2008

Interview, “American Morning,” CNN, featured segment about Oprah’s declining popularity after Barack Obama endorsement, May 28, 2008.

Host, “The Politics of Culture,” KCRW, interview with Robert Scheer on The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America, May 27, 2008

Interview, [London} Independent, story on Oprha’s declining TV fortunes, May 27, 2008

Interview, New York Times, “A Few Tremors in Oprahland,” on impact of endorsement of Obama, May 26, 2008.

Expert Commentary, Planet of the Apes, re-release, 20th Century Fox, March 2008

Expert Commentary, “You Must Remember This: The Warner Brothers,” documentary by Richard Schickel (Time movie critic), American Masters series, PBS, fall 2008

Expert Commentary, “The Brothers Warner,” documentary produced by Cass Warner Spurling, release summer 2008

Interview, Marketplace, NPR, on the significance of the sale of the Rohauer Collection of silent films—the major collection of Buster Keaton and 700 silent movies, Feb. 15, 2008.

Interview with [London] Financial Times on assessing the results of Super Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008

Interview, GMTV (Good Morning TV is UK's main morning news show) segment for Super Tuesday on the impact that celebrity endorsements can have on an election. Jan. 31, 2008

On Air Commentator, KCBS News Radio, San Francisco, Impact of Oprah on Obama, Dec. 10, 2007

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Ross CVInterviewed, Washington Post, Impact of Oprah, Dec. 10, 2007

On Air Expert Commentator, The Today Show, the impact of Oprah’s endorsement of Barack Obama, Dec. 8, 2007. New York

Interview, “Marketplace” the impact of celebrity endorsement, airs Dec. 7, 2007, Los Angeles

Interview, Agence France-Presse, Celebrity endorsement and the 2008 presidential campaign, Dec. 7, 2007

Interview, “The Race” radio show on XM Satellite Radio, talking about the impact of celebrity endorsements, Dec. 6, 2007

Interview, [Poland] Daily News, the role of celebrity endorsements in the 2008 presidential campaign, Dec. 5, 2007

Interview with Jacquelien Nienhuis, Correspondent USA, Algemeen Dagblad. Daily Newspaper The Netherlands on Hollywood and the Presidnetial Election, Oct. 2007

Interview for article on Celebrity and Politics in Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan's largest national daily newspaper), Sept. 24, 2007 Los Angeles

Segment interview on Celebrity Impact on Voting, KCBS Radio San Francisco, Sept. 18, 2007

Interviewed by Joel Budd for article in The Economist on “Hollywood and Politics,” Sept. 11, 2007.

One-hour segment and listener call in about Celebrities and Politics, Kathleen Dunn Show, Wisconsin Public Radio, Sept. 11, 2007.

Segment on Oprah Endorsement of Barack Obama, NPR’s “On the Media,” September 6, 2007.

Celebrities and Politics Segment, NPR’s “Day to Day” with Alex Smith, KPPC FM, Sept. 5, 2007

Expert Commentator for documentary feature film, “The Brothers Warner,” Cass Sperling producer, April 5, 2007

Expert Commentator, 10-hour history of Warner Brothers Studios, Richard Schickel, for TBS, Jan. 3, 2007.

Commentary and analysis of two silent films that appear in the National Film Preservation Foundation, Treasures from American Film Archives 3: Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934 (forthcoming 2007), DVD set, Nov. 13, 2006.

Commentator on HUAC, John Garfield, and Hollywood politics in the 1940s-50s for inclusion in

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Ross CVSpecial Features section “Racing With Fate: John Garfield Under My Skin” in 20th century Fox DVD release, The Ernest Hemingway Film Collection (produced by Cloverland Productions), Sept. 19, 2006.

Interviewed by BBC Radio for story on Arnold, Celebrity Politics and California Referendum Elections, Oct. 20, 2005

Quoted in “California Vote: Arnold Says. Warren Says No,” New York Times, Oct. 14, 2005

Quoted in “Where There’s Smoke, There’s a Star,” NY Times, Sept. 18, 2005

Commentator, “Union Made,” TV Ontario, aired winter 2005.

Commentary and analysis of three silent films that appear in the National Film Preservation Foundation, More Treasures from American Film Archives: 50 films, 1894-1931, (September 2004), DVD set.

BOOK REVIEWS:

John Sbardellati, J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood’s Cold War, Journal of American History.

Review, J. Hoberman, Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War (New York and London: The New Press, 2011), Los Angeles Review of Books, Sept. 27, 2011 lareviewofbooks.org/post/10721909647/the-paranoid-style

, 2003), in Urban History, 31:2 (2004), 301-303

Gerald R. Butters, Jr., Black Manhood On the Silent Screen (Lawrence, KA.: University Press of Kansas, 2002) for American Historical Review, 108 (October 2003), 1166-67.

Eric Foner, Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (Hill and Wang: New York, 2002) in Los Angeles Times, Sunday, June 23, 2002

James J. Lorence, The Suppression of Salt of the Earth : How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America (Albuquerque: New Mexico, 1999), in Southern California Quarterly (Spring 2001), 119-21

Stephen Ambrose, Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (New York, 2000), San Francisco Chronicle Book Review (fall 2001)

Sam B. Girgus, Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of Ford, Capra, and Kazan (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1998), in Journal of American History, 87 (June 2000), 287-88

Mary Murphy, Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41 (Urbana and

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Ross CVChicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997) in American Historical Review, 104 (April 1999), 595-96

Bernard F. Dick, City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997) in Journal of American History, March 1999, 1637-1638

David Robinson, From Peep Show to Palace: The Birth of American Film (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996) in The Historian, 61 (Fall 1998), 173-74

Martin J. Burke, The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995) in Journal of Southern History, 63 (Nov. 1997), 861-62

Mike Nielsen and Gene Mailes, Hollywood's Other Blacklist: Union Struggles in the Studio System (London: BFI, 1995) in International Labor and Working-Class History, 52 (Fall 1997), 239-43

Gary Cross, Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1993), in Labor History, 37 (Summer 1995), 460-62

William Uricchio and Roberta E. Pearson, Reframing Culture: The Case of Vitagraph Quality Films (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), in American Historical Review, 99 (June 1994), 914.

Charles Musser, The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907, Eileen Bowser, The Transformation of Cinema: 1907-1915, Richard Koszarski, An Evening's Entertainment: The Age of the Silent Feature Picture, 1915-1928 (New York, 1990—all three books) in American Historical Review, 97 (Oct. 1992), 1298-1300

David J. Goldberg, A Tale of Three Cities in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 21 (Spring 1991), 712-14

Shelton Stromquist, A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (Urbana, 1987), in Journal of American History, 75 (Sept. 1988), 628

Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, eds., Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth-Century Europe (London, 1984), in Labour/Le Travail, 20 (Fall 1987), 291-94

Robert Weible, ed. Essays From the Lowell Conference on Industrial History 1982 and 1983 (North Andover, 1985) in Labour/Le Travail, 20 (Fall 1987), 263-264

Melvin L. Adelman, A Sporting Time: New York City and the Rise of Modern Athletics, 1820-1870 (Urbana, 1986) in American Historical Review, 92 (Feb 1987), 206-207

Leon Fink, Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor in American Politics (Urbana, 1984), in Labor History, 28 (Spring 1987)

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Jed Dannenbaum, Drink and Disorder: Temperance Reform in Cincinnati From the Washingtonian Revival to the WCTU (Urbana, 1984) in Contemporary Sociology, 14 (July 1985), 483-84

Harmut Keil and John B. Jentz, eds., German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective (DeKalb, 1983) and E. Allen McCormick,ed., Germans in America: Aspects of German-American Relations in the 19th Century (New York, 1983) in Journal of American History, 72 (June 1985), 154-55

Daniel J. Walkowitz, Worker City, Company Town: Iron and Cotton Workers Protest in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855-1884 (Urbana, 1979) in International labor and Working-Class History, 21 (Spring 1982), 127-30

PAPERS, TALKS AND CONFERENCES:

Keynote Speaker, Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference, Santa Barbara, June 17, 2018

In Conversation with Rabbi Michael Birenbaum, Hitler in Los Angeles, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, June 14, 2018

Invited Speaker, “Hitler in Los Angeles,” Brentwood Country Club, Los Angeles, May 11, 2018

Talk, “Resisting Nazism and Fascism in 1930s and 1940s Los Angeles,” Facing History and Ourselves, Los Angeles, May 3, 2018

In Conversation: with Andrea Grossman, Writer’s Bloc, regarding Hitler in Los Angeles, Friends of Beverly Hills Public Library Annual Lecture, Beverly Hills, May 2, 2018

Panelist, “History: Telling Hidden Stories,” USC-LA Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, April 22, 2018

Clark Davis Memorial Lecture, “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America,” Huntington Library, San Marino, April 20, 2018

Invited Speaker, “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America,” American Jewish Committee, Los Angeles, April 19, 2018

Invited Speaker, “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America,” Washington History Seminar, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., April 16, 2018

Invited Speaker for Yom Ha Shoah, “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America,” University Synagogue, Irvine, Ca., April 13, 2018

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Ross CVInvited Speaker, “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America,” Jewish Studies Program, Cal. State University Fresno, April 12, 2018

Invited Speaker for Yom Ha Shoah, “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America,” USC Hillel Parents and Alumni, Los Angeles, April 11, 2018

Burton Lewis Distinguished Lecture, USC Casden Institute, Los Angeles, March 25, 2018

Invited Speaker, “Hitler in Los Angeles,” USC Trustee’s Retreat, Ojai, Ca., March 24, 2018

Invited Speaker, “Hitler in Los Angeles,” Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Los Angeles, March 18, 2018

Invited Speaker, “Hitler in Los Angeles,” Brandeis National Committee, Phoenix, March 12, 2018

Invited Speaker, “Hitler in Los Angeles,” Beverly Hills Bar Association, Beverly Hills, March 1, 2018

Special Lecture, “Hitler in Los Angeles,” USC Goes to Temple Series, Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue, Encino, Feb. 7, 2018

Invited Special Lecture, “Hitler in Los Angeles,” Oviatt Library, Cal State Northridge, Feb. 4, 2018

Panelist, “Americans and the Nazi Threat: What Did Californians Know?,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, Jan. 31, 2018

In Conversation with LA Times columnist Patt Morrison, Hitler in Los Angeles, co-sponsored by Wilshire Boulevard Temple and the USC Casden Institute, Wilshire Blvd Temple, Santa Monica, Jan. 28, 2018

Distinguished Speaker Series, Hitler in Los Angeles, Glendale Central Library, Jan. 17, 2018

Invited Speaker, Hitler in Los Angeles, UCLA Emeriti Organization, Los Angeles, Jan. 11, 2018

Invited Speaker, Hitler in Los Angeles, Regional Advisory Board Meeting, Anti-Defamation League, Los Angeles, Jan. 9, 2018

In Conversation with Danny Green about Hitler in Los Angeles, Seminary Coop Bookstore, University of Chicago, Jan. 4, 2018

Amram Scholar Series Distinguished Lecture, “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America,” Washington Hebrew Congregation, Washington, D.C. Nov. 19, 2017

Invited Speaker, “Hitler in Los Angeles,” Atlanta Jewish Festival of Books, Nov. 12, 2017

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Invited Speaker, “Hitler in Los Angeles,” St. Louis Jewish Festival of Books, Nov. 9, 2017

Invited Speaker, “Hitler in Los Angeles,” Jacksonville Jewish Festival of Books, Nov. 7, 2017

Featured Event, Steven Ross and Neal Gabler in Conversation about Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America, 92nd Street Y, New York, Nov. 6, 2017

Featured Event, Steven Ross and Rob Eshman in Conversation about Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America, ALOUD Series, Los Angeles Public Library, Oct. 26, 2017

Panelist, “Truth Matters: Media in the Age of Fake News and Alternative Facts,” USC-LA Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, April 22, 2017

Reader, Reading of Elie Wiesel, Night, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, April 5, 2017

Paper, “The Secret Life of Los Angeles German Consul Georg Gyssling,” Society of Cinema and Media Studies Convention, Chicago, March 26, 2017

Speaker, “Nazis, Fascists, and Hate Groups in 1930s Los Angeles,” USC History Department Teach-In Series, “Learning from the Past, Changing the Present,” Feb. 15, 2017

In Conversation with Saul Friedlander about his memoir, Where Memory Leads: My Life, ALOUD series, LA Public Library, Feb. 8, 2017

Panelist, “Assessing Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, Seeking Our Story screening and panel at USC Cinematic Arts, Jan. 19, 2017.

Panel Organizer and Moderator, “The Work and Future of Jewish Studies Centers in the United States” Association of Jewish Studies, Dec. 18, 2016, San Diego, Ca.

Talk, “Hollywood, Celebrity, and the Election of Donald Trump,” Trojan League, Los Angeles, Nov. 16, 2016.

In Conversation with Neal Gabler, discussing Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power, Casden Conversation Series, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Santa Monica campus, Oct. 30, 2016.

Featured Speaker, “The Elevator Talk: How to Sell Yourself at a Job Talk,” Center for Excellence in Teaching, USC, Sept. 27, 2016.

In Conversation with Tom Teiholz, “The Stranger (1946) and the American Pursuit of Nazis,” Los Angeles, Museum of the Holocaust, August 11, 2016

Chair and Commentator, “Leading Roles: Sex, Violence and Labor Power in Hollywood Filmmaking,” Organization of American Historians Convention, April 9, 2016, Providence, RI

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Talk, “Movie Stars and Politics,” USC Annenberg seminar on Arts Journalism, March 31, 2016, Los Angeles

Talk, “Hitler in Los Angeles,” USC Religion Department Student Speaker Series, Jan. 20, 2016

Panelist, “Jewish Studies from the Inside and the Outside,” Association of Jewish Studies Convention, Dec. 13, 2015, Boston

Paper, “Nazis, Fascists, and the Assault on Hollywood During the 1930s-1940s: The Moguls and the Nazis,” for panel “Beyond Western Union: Politics and Classical Hollywood Cinema,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Convention, March 27, 2015, Montreal

Talk, “Hitler in Los Angeles,” Hebrew Union College Faculty Workshop, Nov. 12, 2015, Los Angeles

Introduction and Organizer, "An American Jew in Poland, or The Country in My Head," Casden Conversation Series, Sept. 20, 2015, Los Angeles, Ca.

“California Noir: Hollywood and Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s,” California Past Imagined Conference, Sidney Harmon Polymathic Academy, USC, Aug. 26, 2015

Keynote Speaker, “Hollywood and the Jewish Community,” Board of Governors Annual Meeting, American Jewish Committee, Los Angeles, Nov 2, 2014

Invited Keynote Speaker, “Hollywood Left and Right,” Wise Elders, Stephen Wise Temple, Los Angeles, Oct. 23, 2014

Panelist, “Hollywood, Past and Present,” LA Times-USC Festival of Books, Los Angeles, April 13, 2014

Moderator, “History—Untold Stories of the Holocaust,” LA Times-USC Festival of Books, Los Angeles, April 12, 2014

Presenter, LA Times Book Prize in History for 2013, LA Times-USC Festival of Books, Los Angeles, April 11, 2014

Paper Presenter, “Nazism, Fascism and 1930s Hollywood: Mining the Archives,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, March 21, 2014

Invited Round-Table Discussant, “Hollywood, Anti-Semitism and the Politics of Resistance, 1933-1941,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, March 20, 2014

Panelist, “Controversy in the Classroom,” USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, March 14, 2014

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Ross CVPanel Chair, “Film Worlds,” Los Angeles as a Site of German-American Crossings, USC-Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, Feb 8, 2014

Invited Guest Lecture, “The Politicization of Charlie Chaplin: The Events That Led Him to Make The Great Dictator (1940),” History Department/Jewish Studies Film Series, Cal State Fresno, Jan. 31, 2014

Panelist, “Writing History: Bringing it to Life,” Independent Writers of Southern California, Culver City, Nov. 25, 2013

Talk, “Hollywood Left and Right,” Temple Valley Beth Shalom, Studio City, Oct. 21, 2013

Moderator, “Cutie and the Boxer,” interview Zachary Heinzerling, Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, August 10, 2013

Moderator, “The Act of Killing,” interview Joshua Oppenheimer and Werner Herzog, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, July 21, 2013

Distinguished Lecture, “Visualizing Ideology: Politics and American Silent Film,” University of Paris 8, June 17, 2013

Distinguished Lecture, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” University of Paris 8, June 10, 2013

Invited Lecture, “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews and Their Spies Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America,” Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, Los Angeles, May 24, 2013

Invited Speaker, “Hitler in Los Angeles: The Unknown Story of the Jewish Spy Network,” Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic Symposium, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, May 19, 2013

Panelist, “History: The Cold War—Hollywood and Beyond,” LA Times-USC Festival of Books, Los Angeles, April 21, 2013

Panel Organizer and Participant, “Recharging Your Teaching Energy: What To Do When You Get Bored of Teaching Your Courses,” CET Workshop, March 13, 2013

Paper, “Nazis and Reds in 1930s Hollywood,” in Panel “Communism, Hollywood and the 1930s,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Convention, March 8, 2013, Chicago

Invited Speaker, “How to Highlight Teaching in Your Job Resume,” CET Graduate Student Fellows, Feb 20, 2013

Commentator: “Observations on Transatlantic Political Film: Day Zero (2007) and Dans La Tourmente (2012),” Politics in Art Forms Conference, Los Angeles, Feb. 8, 2013

Co-Organizer, Politics in Arts Forms International Conference, co-sponsored by USC-University of Paris 8-UCLA, Feb. 7-8, 2013, Los Angeles

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Organizer, “Music Festivals: Building New Communities for a New Generation,” Visions and Voices day-long conference: 3 films and a panel, January 2013

Paper, “Writing the Political History of Movie Stars,” in Panel “Writing the Political History of Hollywood,” American Historical Association Convention, January 6, 2013, New Orleans

Keynote Address: “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” Los Angeles Historical Society Annual Dinner, Dec. 11, 2012, Los Angeles

Invited Paper, “Movement Leader, Grassroots Builder: Jane Fonda and the Dual Strategy for Politicizing the Public,” International Conference on Ethics and Practices of responsibility, University of Paris 8, Nov. 19, 2012

Invited Lecture, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” USC Provost’s Writers Series, Nov. 14, 2012

Interlocutor, Post-Screening Interview with Michael Brown, Director-Producer-Writer of High Ground, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, Oct. 21, 2012

Commentator, Nadia Bair paper, “Signs of the Times: The War and The World in Weegee’s Photographs of New York, 1940-1945,” Objects of Knowledge, USC Visual Studies Research Institute, Los Angeles, Oct. 17, 2012

Keynote Speaker, “The Surprising History of the Hollywood Right,” The Half Century Trojans Annual Hall of Fame Luncheon, USC, Los Angeles, Oct. 16, 2012

Keynote Speaker, “Instant Contact: How to Shine in 1 or 2 Minutes on Your Interview Day,” USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, Los Angeles, Oct. 9, 2012,

Invited Lecture, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” National History Center, Washington. D.C. Oct. 1, 2012

Keynote Speaker, “Hollywood Left and Right,” Admission’s Day Lecture, Historical Society of Southern California and San Marino Historical Society, San Marino, Ca., Sept. 9, 2012

Interlocutor, Post-Screening Interview with Ari Daniel Pinchot, Director-Producer of Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, July 8, 2012

Interlocutor, Post-Screening Interview with Stephen Tenenbaum, Executive Producer of To Rome With Love, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, June 23, 2012

Panelist, “History: City of Angels,” USC-Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, April 22, 2012

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Ross CVInvited Speaker, “Hollywood Left and Right,” Dornsife College Alumni Event, Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, Ca., April 18, 2012

Keynote Speaker, Milton Plesur Distinguished Lecture, “Hollywood Left and Right,” Buffalo University, March 30, 2012

Invited Speaker, “Hollywood and Politics,” Cinema Studies Department, Drexel University, March 1, 2012

Invited Speaker, “Hollywood Left and Right: Movie Stars and Politics,” Constitutional Law Society, Drexel University Law School, Feb. 29, 2012

Invited Speaker, “Hollywood Left and Right,” Friends of the Library Lecture Series, Glendale Public Library, Glendale, CA. Feb 22, 2012

Invited Speaker, “Arthur Wagner in Conversation with Steven Ross about Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” Shank Theater, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, Ca., Feb. 16, 2012

Invited Speaker, “Neal Gabler in Conversation with Steven Ross about Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” 92nd Street Y, New York City, Jan. 25, 2012

Invited Speaker, “Hollywood and Politics,” The Harvard Club, New York City, Jan. 24, 2012

Talk and Book Signing, Hollywood Left and Right, Book Soup, West Hollywood, Ca. Jan. 20, 2012

Commentator, “Historians, Journalists, and the Challenges of Getting It Right, Part 1: American Biography and the Cold War,” American Historical Association Convention, Chicago, January 6, 2012

Panel Discussion on “Hollywood Left and Right,” featuring Steven Ross, Mike Farrell, Roger Simon, and Ella Taylor, ALOUD series, Los Angeles Public Library, Nov. 2, 2011 events.lapl.org/podcasts/PodcastView.aspx?pid=506 or www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Leftand

“Preparing for the Job Interview,” Center for Excellence in Teaching, USC, Oct. 18, 2011

Invited Speaker, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” Powell’s Bookstore, Portland, Sept. 22, 2011

Invited Speaker, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” California Historical Society, San Francisco, Sept. 21, 2011 www.c-span.org/Events/Hollywood-and-American-Politics/10737426335/

Invited Speaker, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” Contra Costa Jewish Books and Arts Festival, Walnut Creek, Ca., Sept. 20, 2011

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Invited Speaker, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, Sept. 19, 2011

Invited Speaker, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles, Sept. 15, 2011

Introduction to lost reel of The Passaic Textile Strike (1926), Celebrating Orphan Films, UCLA Film Archive Presentation, Billy Wilder Theater, Los Angeles, May 14, 2011

Invited Lecture, “Harry Belafonte, Hollywood, and Movement Politics,” US Studies Center, University of Sydney Australia, April 20, 2011

Distinguished Public Lecture, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” Sydney Ideas Series, Sydney, Australia, April 19, 2011

Invited Lecture, “Movement Leader, Grassroots Builder: Jane Fonda,” US Studies Center, University of Sydney Australia, April 14, 2011

Invited Lecture, “Little Caesar and the HUAC Mob: Edward G. Robinson, the RedScare, and the Decline of Hollywood Liberalism,” US Studies Center, Brown Bag Seminar, University of Sydney, Australia, April 13, 2011

Invited Lecture, “Hollywood and the Conservative Revolution: George Murphy and Ronald Reagan,” US Studies Center, University of Sydney Australia, April 11, 2011

Invited Public Lecture, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand, April 8, 2011

Invited Lecture, “Visualizing ideology: Labor and Capital in the Era of Silent Film,” University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, April 7, 2011

Invited Public Lecture, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, April 6, 2011

“Hollywood Left and Right: A Typology of Movie Star Activism from Chaplin to Schwarzenegger,” panel on “Hollywood Political Activism,” Organization of American Historians Convention, Houston, TX, March 18, 2011,

Invited Lecture, “How Hollywood Became Hollywood: Movies, Money and Politics,” for Master's degree arts journalism students at USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, Feb. 23, 2011

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Ross CVPaper, “Harry Belafonte, Hollywood, and Movement Politics,” part of panel on “Hollywood and Politics in the 1950s and Beyond,” American Historical Association Convention, Jan. 6, 2011, Boston

Moderator, “Biography: Hollywood Legends,” Los Angles Times Festival of Books, April 25, 2010, Los Angeles.

Moderator, “Looks Can Be Revealing,” Thematic Options research Conference, April; 14, 2010.

Keynote Speaker: “Hollywood and World War II,” National Center for History in the Schools, April 9, 2010, Downey, Ca.

Panel Organizer and Introductions, “Joystick Nation: How Will We Entertain Ourselves in 2020?” USC Visions and Voices Panel presented by the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, March 29, 2010

Discussion Leader, “Promoting Intellectual and Cultural Life at USC,” USC Senate-Provost Retreat, Feb. 19, 2010, Huntington Beach

Panelist, “Dealing with the Job Market,” USC History Department Professionalization Series, Nov. 30, 2009, Los Angeles.

Invited Talk: “Unlocking the Archives: The Role of Primary Sources in Historical Discovery," Los Angeles Archives Bazaar, Oct. 17, 2009

Keynote Address, “The Pleasures of the Life of the Mind,” Cum Laude Ceremony, Brentwood School, May 19, 2009, Los Angeles

Keynote Address: “Hollywood, Hitler, and the Coming of World War II,” Yom Ha Shoah Memorial Ceremony, Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center, Aventura, Fla. April 19, 2009

Co-Organizer and Introductions, Dialogues Series, “Seeing Los Angeles” (featuring Teresa Chavez, Aaron Paley, George Sanchez, D.J. Waldie,), USC Visions and Voices Series, March 30, 2009

Talk, “Hollywood and Presidential Elections: An Overview,” Parkside Arts and Humanities Dorm, USC, Oct. 28, 2008

Panelist, “Problems on How to Present Talks at Conferences or Job Interviews,” History Department Graduate Roundtable, Oct. 27, 2008

Panelist, “Beginning Research Strategies for the PhD,” History Department Graduate Roundtable, Oct. 20, 2008

Chair and Commentator, “Pre-Mature Anti-Fascism in 1930s Hollywood,” American Studies Association Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 17, 2008

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Panelist, “The Presidential Campaign of 2008,” USC Parents Weekend, Oct. 10, 2008

Talk, “Hollywood’s Impact on the Presidential Campaign,” for USC Trojan League forum on the Presidential Elections, Oct. 7, 2008

Invited Talk, “Hollywood and the Jewish Community,” for the Consular Corps in Los Angeles, Sponsored by American Jewish Committee, Sony Studios, Culver City, June 13, 2008,

Invited Talk and Moderator, “The Labor Problem and the Origins of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,” “Moguls, Millionaires & Movie Stars: Hollywood Between the Wars, 1920-1940,” Huntington Library, May 29-30, 2008

Co-Organizer and Introductions, Dialogues Series, “Does the Work Still Work (And if Not, Is Religion the Answer)?” (featuring Kevin Starr, Julia Sweeney, Jack Miles, Amir Hussain), USC Visions and Voices Series, March 31, 2008

Lecture, “The Social and Political Impact of American Film,” DVC Program on History and the Role of Films in American Society, American Studies Lecture Series, U.S. State Department, Bir Zeit University (Ramallah) and Al-Quds University (West Bank) Jerusalem, March 3, 2008

Moderator, “Making a Difference in Politics: A Panel Discussion,” USC Spectrum Series, Feb. 13, 2008.

Paper, “Methodology, Language and the Future of Film History,” session on Film History and Film Studies: Sources, Methodologies, Approaches, AHA Convention, Washington D.C., January 6, 2008.

Invited Lecture, “What Does It Mean to be an American?” Teaching American History Program for Los Angeles K-12 Public School Teachers, October 10, 2007, Los Angeles

Co-Organizer and Introductions, Dialogues Series, “Hip Hop America” (featuring Ann Powers, Josh Kun and Todd Boyd), USC Visions and Voices Series, Oct. 8, 2007.

Panelist, “Political Filmmaking and the Films of Costas-Gavras,” Costas-Gavras Film Festival and Eisenstein Award, USC, Sept. 29, 2007, USC

Hart Institute Distinguished Lecture, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” Pomona College, Sept. 27, 2007, Claremont, Ca.

Invited Paper Presentation, “The Politicization of Hollywood Before World War II: Anti-Fascism, Anti-Communism, and Anti-Semitism,” Villa Aurora, May 30, 2007, Los Angeles

Dr. Harold Lee Endowed Lecture, “Hollywood Left and Right: Anti-Fascism, Anti-Communism, and Anti-Semitism Before World War II,” Casden Institute for the Study of Jewish Life in America, USC, March 21, 2007

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Ross CVCo-Organizer and Introductions, Dialogues Series, “The Moral Morass of Contemporary Life” (featuring Jack Miles, Rabbi Leonard Beerman, Rev. George Regas), USC Visions and Voices Series, March 7, 2007

Invited Paper, “Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics,” Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, Feb. 16, 2007

Co-Organizer and Introductions, Dialogues Series, “Pop, Politics, and Propaganda” (featuring Robbie, Marc Cooper, Marty Kaplan, and Carole Wells), USC Visions and Voices Series, Nov, 1, 2006

Introductory Talk and Panelist, “American Politics in Historical Context,” talk before screen of the documentary The War Room and discussion afterwards, “The Glorious Burden,” USC Vision and Voices Series, Oct. 22, 2006

Invited Paper Presentation, “Little Caesar and the HUAC Mob: Edward G. Robinson, the Red Scare, and the Decline of Liberal Hollywood,” Center for the Study of the Cold War, New York University, October 17, 2006

Invited Paper Presentation, “Little Caesar and the HUAC Mob: Edward G. Robinson, the Red Scare, and the Decline of Liberal Hollywood,” American History Seminar, Columbia University, October 16, 2006

Talk, “Movies and Politics in the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood,” History of Hollywood panel, Parent’s Weekend, USC, Oct. 6, 2006.

Invited Talk, “Understanding HUAC,” USC Scene Dock Theater, USC Visions and Voices Series, Sept. 13, 2006

Invited Discussant, “Teaching Celebrity, Politics & Public Life: A Multidisciplinary Faculty Workshop,” Norman Lear Entertainment Studies Center, Annenberg School for Communication, USC, April 28, 2006

Keynote Address, “Undergraduate Education at USC,” USC Explore, April 3, 2006

Henry A. Salvatori Distinguished Lecture: “Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Battle for the American Mind,” Chapman University, March 27, 2006

Co-Organizer, Dialogues Series: “Have Blogs Replaced Newspapers and Should We Care?”, March 22, 2006, USC.

Moderator, “Elia Kazan: A Conversation,” Steve Ross in Conversation with Richard Schickel and Leo Braudy, ALOUD series, Los Angeles Public Library, January 12, 2006

Paper: “When Push Comes to Shove: Politics, Jewish Identity, and the Business of Hollywood in the 1930s,” Jewish Los Angeles—Then and Now, National Conference at UCLA, Nov. 14, 2005

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Commentator, Martin Krieger photo exhibit, “Working at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach: Infrastructure as a Choreography of Machinery, People, and Goods,” USC School of Policy, Planning and Development Workshop Seminar Series, November 2, 2005.

Invited Talk and Paper, “The First Political Movie Star: Charlie Chaplin and the Rise of Visual Politics,” The Charles Chaplin Conference, 21-24 July 2005, British Film Institute, London.

Paper: “The Politicization of Hollywood:  Anti-Fascism, Anti-Communism, and Anti-Semitism,” UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, The Autry National Center,  and The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, History of Jews in Los Angeles Research Seminar, April, 11, 2005

Paper: “Little Caesar and the HUAC Mob: Edward G. Robinson,” UCLA American History Colloquium Series, Nov. 22, 2004, Los Angeles

Conference Co-Organizer, “The Big Lie? News, Media, and the Fiction of Non-Fiction,” citywide conference, Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, April 2, 2005, Los Angeles.

Commentator, Thomas Goodnight, “Studies in Celebrity Advocacy: The Passion of the Christ meets Fahrenheit 9/11,” Celebrity, Politics, and Public Life Faculty Seminar, Norman Lear Center for Entertainment Studies, USC, March 11, 2005.

Commencement Address, “Activism Past, Present and Future,” The Brentwood School, Los Angeles, June 5, 2004

Talk: “Using Film in Teaching History,” Marshall High School History faculty, Los Angeles, May 11, 2004

Conference Co-Organizer, “Writing L.A.: Urban Noir, Postmodern Malaise, and Suburban Angst in the Capital of the 21st Century.” Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, April 2-3, 2004, at USC.

“Documenting Labor Radicalism: The Passaic Textile Strike (1926) and Salt of the Earth (1954),” Labor Center, Los Angeles Trade Tech College, North Hollywood (Teamsters Local 399 Hall), March 22, 2004

“Labor, Unions, and American Cinema,” Labor Center, Los Angeles Trade Tech College, North Hollywood (Teamsters Local 399 Hall), Feb. 9, 2004

“Anti-Fascism in Prewar Hollywood: An Introduction to Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939),” Warners' War: Politics, Pop Culture & Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood, Oct. 28, 2003, USC.

Panel Member and Discussant, “Propaganda, Pop Culture & Public Diplomacy,” part of Warners' War: Politics, Pop Culture & Propaganda in Wartime Hollywood, Oct. 30, 2003, USC.

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Ross CVPanel Chair, “Promoting the Everyday,” Conference on American Cinema and Everyday Life, University College London, June 26-28, 2003

Paper, “When Stars Speak Out: Movie Stars, Politics, and the Power of Audience Response,” Conference on American Cinema and Everyday Life, Univ. College London, June 26-28, 2003

Talk, “How Hollywood Became Hollywood: Money, Politics, and Movies,” Metropolis in the Making Lecture Series at Homestead Museum, City of Industry, May 4, 2003

Concluding Conference Comments, “From Sunset Boulevard to Mulholland Drive: Los Angeles in the Cinematic Imagination” USC, March 28-29, 2003

Co-Organizer, “From Sunset Boulevard to Mulholland Drive: Los Angeles in the Cinematic Imagination” USC, March 28-29, 2003

Organizer and Moderator, USC Teach In on the War in Iraq, March 27, 2003

Talk: “Watching Old Movies,” USC Faculty-Graduate Student Lecture Series, Nov. 4, 2002, Los Angeles

Public Discussion, Steve Ross in Conversation with David Halberstam, War in a Time of Peace, Los Angeles Public Library “Hot Off the Press” Series, Oct. 9, 2002, Los Angeles

Public Discussion: Steve Ross in Conversation with Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club, Los Angeles Public Library “Hot Off the Press” Series, Sept. 11, 2002, Los Angeles

Co-Organizer, “Los Angeles At the Millennium: Identity and Community in the 21st Century City,” USC, April 5-6, 2002 (featured speakers included: Mike Davis, Kevin Starr, Harold Meyerson, James Ellroy, Walter Mosely)

Talk: “Hollywood Labor and Management Leaders, 1900-1940,” L.A. Lives Worth Knowing: History as Biography Conference sponsored by Historical Society of Southern California, Autry Museum, Glendale, Ca., March 2, 2002

“Little Caesar and the HUAC Mob: Edward G. Robinson and the Decline of Hollywood Liberalism,” Celebrity Culture and Politics Faculty Seminar,” Annenberg School of Communication, USC, Sept. 28, 2001

Organizer and Speaker, “Teach In on the Current Crisis” USC, Sept. 24, 2001

Paper: “Little Caesar and the HUAC Mob: Edward G. Robinson and the Tragedy of Hollywood Liberalism,” Los Angeles History Seminar, Huntington Library, May 5, 2001

Paper: “Little Caesar and the HUAC Mob: Edward G. Robinson and the Decline of Hollywood Liberalism,” OAH Convention, Los Angeles, April 26, 2001

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Ross CVKeynote Speaker, "From Working-Class History to Film History: An Historian's Odyssey,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Convention, Los Angles, April 7, 2001

Strickland Professor Public Lecture: “Gone With the Wind and the Great Depression: How a Movie About the Civil War and Reconstruction Addressed the Problems of the 1930s,” Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN., Oct. 30, 2000

Strickland Professor Public Lecture: “Visualizing Ideology: Hollywood and the Working Class,” Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN., Oct. 26, 2000

Talk: “Hollywood and the Working Class,” Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, USC, Los Angeles, Oct. 20, 2000

Respondent, Peter Novick, “From History to Memory: The Holocaust and American Life,” U.S.C., Los Angeles, May 1, 2000

Keynote Speaker, “Visualizing Ideology: Hollywood and the Working Class,” Labor Film Festival, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, April 27, 2000

Guest Lecture: "Docudrama and History," Annenberg School of Communications, April 4, 2000

Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, “Visualizing Ideology: Hollywood and the Working Class,” Working-Class Studies Center, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, Jan. 20, 2000

Talk, “Discovering the Past: Knowledge, Lateral Logic, and Luck,” Marshall School of Business, USC, October 22, 1999

Invited Paper: International Conference on "Before Television: Mass Media, Political Cultures, and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in Western Europe and the United States, 1900-1950," sponsored by the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., September 1999

Public Lecture, “History and Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, April 24, 1999

Talk, “History and Activism,” USC Student Activism Conference, April 16, 1999

Public Lecture as Distinguished Labor Lecturer for 1999, “Blue Collar Conflict on the Silver Screen: Hollywood and the Working Class,” San Francisco State University Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco, Feb. 26, 1999

Invited Participant, "Jews in Prime Time Television--A Conference,” Co-Sponsored by Annenberg School of Communication, American Jewish Committee, Jewish Television Network, Los Angeles, January 21, 1999

Invited Speaker: "Visualizing Ideology: How Silent Filmmakers Put Politics on the Screen Without Using Words,” 1998-1999 College Research Forum, USC, Nov. 10, 1998

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"Representing the Working Class: A Discussion of Working-Class Hollywood, Labor Film Symposium, co-sponsored by History Department and Film Studies Department, University of Rochester and Rochester Central Labor Council, Oct. 3, 1998

Public Lecture and Screening, "When Labor Made Movies: The Passaic Textile Strike and Labor's Reward," Rochester Labor Film Series 1998, George Eastman House, Oct. 2, 1998

Invited Speaker: "Visualizing Ideology: Labor versus Capital in the Age of Silent Film," University of Rochester, Oct. 2, 1998

Invited Paper, "Popular Culture With Class," Grand Crossings: A Symposium Honoring the Life and Work of Alexander Saxton, Los Angeles, Sept. 26, 1998

Invited Speaker, "Cinematic Visions of Revolution,” Symposium on The Undying Dream of Revolution, Museum of Arts Downtown Los Angeles, July 23, 1998

Invited Speaker, "Blue Collar Conflict on the Silver Screen,” Univ. Washington (Seattle), July 9, 1998

Invited Speaker, "Hollywood and the Politics of American Film," Santa Monica College, May 18, 1998

Invited Speaker, "Using the Web for Classroom Teaching," Teaching and Technology at USC, Conference, April 29, 1998

Talk: "Working-Class Hollywood,” Borders Bookstore, Westwood, April 1998

Talk: "Blue Collar Conflict On the Silver Screen," Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, April 1998

Invited Speaker, "The Revolt of the Audiences: Reconsidering Audiences and Reception During the Silent Era," Commonwealth Fund Conference in American History: Hollywood and Its Spectators: The Reception of American Films, London, February 1998

Chair and Commentator: "Labor Education: The Use of Videos," Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference, Los Angeles, May 1997

Talk: "History, Film, and Class” Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, November 1996

Invited Speaker: "Celluloid Labor: Hollywood's Imaging of Working People," Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Hollywood, May 1996

Paper, "Beyond the Screen: A Materialist Blueprint for Writing Film History," OAH Convention, April 1996, Chicago

Invited Speaker: "Going Out: Fun, Danger, and Working-Class Leisure in Early 20th Century

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Invited Speaker: "Visualizing Ideology: How Do You Put Politics on the Screen in an Era When No One Talks?" Salsbury State University, Salsbury, Md. Sept. 1995

Invited Speaker: "How Hollywood Became Hollywood: Los Angeles and the Rise of the Movie Industry," sponsored by California Council for the Humanities, June 1995, McMaster-Carr, Santa Fe Springs, Ca.

Chair and Commentator, “Banned in California: The True Story of the Film Poverty in the Land of the Valley of Plenty,” Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference, May 1995, Los Angeles

Talk: "When Russia Invaded America: Hollywood, War, and the Movies,” at the Shelby Cullom Davis Seminar Series on Enterprise and Culture, for March 1995, Princeton University

Talk: "Visualizing Ideology: How Do You Put Politics On the Screen in an Era When No One Talks?," USC History Department Colloquium Series, April 1994

Invited Guest Speaker, "Visualizing Ideology: Politics, Class, and the Rise of Hollywood," California State University, Northridge, Symposium on "Outsiders and Insiders: The Cultural Turn in Historical Explanation," March 1994

Comment: "The Business of Celebrity in 20th Century American Show Business, Starring Mae West and Jack Benny," American Historical Association Convention, San Francisco, Jan. 1994

Talk/Video Presentation: "Labor, Politics, and Silent Film,” Organization of American Historians Convention, Anaheim, Ca. April 1993

Comment: "Film and Censorship," American Studies Association Convention, Costa Mesa, Ca., Nov. 1992

Talk: "Working-Class Hollywood: Politics, Ideology, and Imagery in the Silent Age,” UC San Deigo, April 1992

Talk: "Hollywood: Cinema and Reality,” California Studies Conference, Sacramento, Feb. 1992

Comment: "Resistance and Alternatives to Corporate Control of Communications from the Progressive Era to the New Deal," Organization of American Historians Convention, Louisville, April 1991

Paper: "Struggles For the Screen: Workers, Radicals, and the Political Uses of Silent Film,” Pittsburgh Social History Center, October 1990

Paper: "Struggles For the Screen: Workers, Radicals, and the Political Uses of Silent Film," USC Cinema Department Colloquium, October 1990

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Ross CVInvited Speaker: "Freed Soil, Freed Labor, and Freed Men: The Davis Bend Experiment," Long Beach Civil War Roundtable, Long Beach, May 1990.

Paper: "Looking at Labor: How to 'Read' Images of Workers in Movies," Southwest Labor Studies Conference, Los Angeles, April 1990

Chair: "The Differing Impacts of Economic Transformation: Boston, 1780 to 1840," A.H.A. Convention, San Francisco, Dec. 1989

Paper: "Working-Class Hollywood: Worker-Made Movies of the 19teens and 1920s,” American Studies Convention, Toronto, Nov. 1989

Talk: "Working-Class Hollywood: Workers, Radicals, and the Movies,” FRIF Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series, USC, Nov. 1989

Paper: "The Politics of Mass Culture: Labor, Capital, the State, and the Movies,” Princeton University, May 1989

Paper: "Labor, the Movies, and the Uses of Mass Culture, 1911-1929," American Studies Convention, Miami, Oct. 1988

Invited Speaker: "Struggles For the Screen: Labor, Radicals and the Uses of Silent Film," Columbia University, Oct. 1988.

Talk: "The Passaic Textile Strike: An Analysis of the 1926 Film," Clio Society, Univ of Calif., Irvine, May 1988

Paper: "Representations of Labor on Film," Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference, Los Angeles, April 1988

Paper: "Struggles For the Screen: Workers, Radicals and the Uses of Silent Film,” UC Irvine Conference in Social History and Theory, Irvine, April 1988

Talk: "Struggles For the Screen: Workers, Radicals and the Uses of Silent Film,” USC History Dept Colloquium, March 1988

Panel Chair; "Censorship and Mass Entertainment in Twentieth-Century America,” OAH Convention, Reno, March 1988

Talk: "The Politics of Mass Culture: Labor, Radicals, and the Movies,” Diogenes Society, USC, Nov. 1987

Panelist, "Social History Workshop," Pacific Coast Branch, AHA Convention, L.A., July 1987

Symposium Organizer: "Labor, Ideology and Class in the Early Republic," Society of Historians of the Early Republic, Philadelphia, July 1987

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Ross CVPaper: "The Transformation of Republican Ideology,” SHEAR Convention, Philadelphia, July 1987

Panel Co-Organizer: "American Ceremonies: The Representations of Race, Gender & Class," Organization of American Historians Convention, Philadelphia, April 1987

Paper: "America's Labor Day: The Evolution of a Workers’ Celebration, 1882-1950" (with Prof. Michael Kazin), OAH Convention, Philadelphia, April 1987

Paper: "The Constitution and the Commercial Republic,” Series on the U.S. Constitution and the Challenge of Change, UCLA, January 1987

Commentator: "Business Enterprise & the Transformation of Western Communities," Oral History Association Conference, Long Beach, October 1986

Commentator: "Mobs & Masses: Changing Concepts of the Crowd in 19th Century America,” Organization of American Historians Convention, New York City, April 1986

Paper: "Integrating Business and Labor History," with Prof. Ed Perkins (USC), Business History Convention, Columbus, March 1986

Paper: "We Who Built the Queen City: Working-Class Life in Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati,” Cincinnati Historical Society, October 1985.

Talk: "Social History and Working Class History," University of Cincinnati, October 1985

Chair & Commentator: "Labor’s Fight For A Shorter Day," Southwest Labor Studies Conference, San Diego, Ca., March 1985

Paper: "Language, Imagery, and Ideology in the New Era of Manufacturing: Middling-Class Views of Growth and Progress in Antebellum Cincinnati,” OAH Convention, Los Angeles, April 1984.

Panel Co-Organizer: "Middling-Class Consciousness in Industrializing America,” OAH Convention, L.A., April 1984.

Commentator: "Antebellum Reformers in the Post-Civil War World,” American Historical Association Convention, San Francisco, December 1983.

Panel Chair: "The Debate Goes On: The Rosenbergs Reconsidered,” AHA Convention, San Francisco, December 1983.

Paper/Comment: "The Bifurcation of Antebellum Republican Ideology," Pacific Coast Branch, AHA Conference, San Deigo, August 1983.

Paper: "Narrative vs. Analytical History: Recent Debates on the Writing and Future of History," USC History Dept. Colloquium, October 1982.

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Panel Chair: "Historians as Social Activists,” AHA Convention, Los Angeles, December 1981.

Paper: "Political Economy and Mass Democracy: Henry George and the American Working Class,” Princeton University, October 1981.

Paper: "Confrontations With Capital: Labor's Vision of Alternative Worlds in Late 19th Century America,” Columbia University, April 1981. Paper: "Law, Order, and Class Consciousness: Cincinnati Workers' Struggle for Power, 1884-1890,” USC History Dept. Colloquium, March 1981.

Paper: "The Culture of Political Economy: Henry George and the American Working Class,” URPE Western Regional Conference, UC Berkeley, Feb. 1981.

Panel Organizer: "Culture and the Working Class," URPE Conference, Feb. 1981

Paper: "Workers On the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1830-1890,” AHA Convention, Washington, D.C., December 1980.

Paper: "Culture and Its Significance in the Workplace," Southwest Labor Studies Conference, San Francisco, May 1980.

Paper: "Labor History and the History of Clerical Workers in the United States,” Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 660 Conference, Los Angeles, July 1980.

Conference Co-Organizer: Labor and the Humanities, Los Angeles, May 1980 (NEH sponsored conference (EH-32942-79-11)

Paper: "Law, Order, and Class Consciousness: The Cincinnati May Day Strikes of 1886,” AHA Convention, New York, December 1979.

Paper: "Strikes, Knights, and Political Fights: The May Day Strikes, the Knights of Labor, and the Rise of the United Labor Party in 19th Century Cincinnati," Knights of Labor Centennial Symposium, Chicago, May 1979.

Paper: "Henry George and American Radicalism,” Pennsbury Lecture Series, Pennsbury, Pa., April 1977.

Paper: "Politicization and Radicalization in 19th Century Cincinnati," History Dept. Lecture Series, University of Cincinnati, May 1976.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Editor, The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual, Fall 2015-present, published by Purdue University Press

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Ross CVContributing Editor, Los Angeles Review of Books, spring 2011-present Editorial Board, “Class: Culture” series, University of Michigan Press, June 2005—present Media Editor, American Communist History, Nov. 2001-presentEditorial Board, Ohio Valley History, March 2000-2009Editorial Board, Queen City Heritage, 8/85-12/99Editorial Board, Journal of the Early Republic, 6/88-9/93Editorial Board, International Labor and Working Class History 1/79-9/90

Reviewer, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, January 2013-25

Commentary and analysis of two silent films that appear in the National Film Preservation Foundation, Treasures from American Film Archives 3: Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934 (issued October 2007), DVD set, recorded Nov. 13, 2006.

Commentary and Analysis of three silent films for the National Film Preservation Foundation, More Treasures from American Film Archives: 50 films, 1894-1931, DVD set (August 2004), recorded on Dec. 10, 2003, Burbank, CA.

Chair & Committee Member, John O'Connor Award (for best cinema or video production of the year dealing with some aspect of history—this includes nonAmerican as well as American history), American Historical Association, for 1995-98; 2016-18 (chair of 2016-2017).

Committee Member and Chair, Erik Barnouw Award (best cinema or video production of year dealing with some aspect of American history), Organization of American Historians, 1994-97.

Member, Arrangements Committee, Organization of American Historians Convention for Los Angeles, 1992-1993

Prize Committee, Best Article for 1988-1989, Journal of the Early Republic

Prize Committee, ABC-CLIO American History Award, 1984-1985, Organization of American Historians

Referee, articles for Journal of American History; American Quarterly; Journal of the Early Republic; Queen City Heritage; The Public Historian, Pacific Historical Review, Radical History Review, Film and History, Annals of Iowa, Left History, Labor History

Referee, manuscripts for Columbia University Press, University of Nebraska Press, Princeton University Press, University of Illinois Press, Smithsonian Institution Press, Cornell University Press, Oxford University Press, Blackwells, Rutgers University Press, University of North Carolina Press Membership in American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Social Science History Association, American Studies Association, Southwest Labor Studies Association, Business History Association, Society of Historians of the Early American Republic

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MISCELLANEOUS:

Tenure and Promotions Review for Rutgers' University tenure and promotion, Fall 1984

for Macalester College tenure and promotion, Fall 1986 for SUNY Buffalo senior appmt, Fall 1990 for Cal Tech midcareer review, Spring 1991 for UW, Madison tenure and promotion, Fall 1991 for UW, Madison tenure and promotion, Fall 1992 for Chapman University tenure and promotion, Fall 1993 for University of Hawaii, Manoa, tenure and promotion, Fall 1994 for Georgia Institute of Technology tenure and promotion, Fall 1998 for University of Michigan senior appointment, March 2000 for Carnegie Mellon University promotion, August 2001 for Chapman University promotion, Oct. 2001

for Univ of Wisconsin, Madison, Tenure and Promotion, March 2002 for Rutgers University, tenure and promotion, Sept. 2002 for Carnegie Mellon university tenure and promotion August 2005 for Columbia University tenure review, January 2007; March 2017

for Brunel University (England) for promotion February 2014 for Samford University tenure and promotion, Sept. 2014 for Purdue University, June 2017

Outside Referee, NEH Summer Seminar in American Popular Culture, Spring 1984

TEACHING RECORD

AWARDS & HONORS:

USC Dornsife College Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Aug. 2011-May 2013Faculty Fellow, Center for Excellence in Teaching, USC, Aug. 2011-Aug. 2014USC Faculty Innovative Teaching Award, March 2010Faculty Appreciation Award, Alpha Lamba Delta (USC), Oct. 19, 2006USC General Education Teaching Award, Oct. 2005USC Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Award for 2001-2002, 5/2001Multi-Media Literacy Grant, Annenberg Center II, USC, May 1998-June 2000Speaker at QuickStart Program, Center for Scholarly Technology, USC, May 12-14, 1998, June 9, 1998 (I was asked to talk about uses of technology in the classroom)William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Research Grant for Developing a New Interdisciplinary Course in General Education, 6/97-6/99 [for History 225g]William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Research Grant for Developing a New Interdisciplinary Course in General Education, 6/96-6/98 [for MDA 115]USC Associates Award For Distinguished Teaching, March 1992 USC Fund for Projects in Innovative Teaching Award, 6/91-8/91

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Ross CVArnold and Lois Graves Award, for "Outstanding Accomplishment in Actual Teaching in the Humanities," awarded Dec. 1989, taken 1/91-6/91Advisor, Social Science Division Video Teaching Program, spring 1987Selected as Social Science Faculty Member to Teach in USC/Irvine Foundation Program, fall 1985 (special course designed for High School History Teachers)

COURSES TAUGHT:

History 190: Comparative Slave SystemsHistory 200g: The American ExperienceHistory 215g: Business and Labor in American HistoryHistory 225g: Film, Power, and American HistoryHistory 255: Sport and Popular Culture in Modern America History 260g: The Past, Present, and Future of American SocietyHistory 341: American Social HistoryHistory 343: Work, Leisure, and Violence in Industrializing AmericaHistory 359: Film, Power, and American Social History History 380: American Popular CultureHistory 491-492: Senior Honors Seminar in HistoryHistory 483: The Unites States, 1877-1929History 498: Senior Seminar: American Popular CultureHistory 498: Senior Seminar: Movies, Movie Stars and PoliticsHistory 498: Seminar: The Cinematic CenturyHistory 499: American Popular CultureHistory 500: Introduction to Graduate Historical StudiesHistory 571: Readings in U.S. History Since 1860History 582: Readings in American Working Class History History 584: Readings in American Social HistoryHistory 587: The Politics of American Popular CultureHistory 599: Reading Seminar in American Social History (USC/Irvine Program)History 601: Seminar in Graduate Historical StudiesHistory 675: Research Seminar in American Social HistoryHistory 680: Research Seminar in 20th 21st Century American HistoryHistory 682: Research Seminar in American Working-Class HistoryHistory 700: Historical Explanation and Research Design (Dissertation Prospectus)History 490 & 590: Individual Readings in Social and Labor History

T.O. 104: Change and the Future (Thematic Option)Core 499: A Social History of Work and Leisure: Everyday Life in 19th and 20th Century AmericaMDA 115: The Past, Present, and Future of American SocietyMDA 250: Internship for Liberal Arts Majors: Work & Career: Theory & Practice

GRADUATE ADVISEMENT

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Ross CVPhDs COMPLETED:

Sergio Munoz-Bata, “Sensing Fascism in America: Thomas Mann in Los Angeles,” USC American Studies, Sept. 25, 2017 (Outside Reader)

Shawna Kidman, “Comic Books Incorporated: Industrial Strategy and the Legitimation of Lowbrow Media,” USC Cinematic Arts, Nov. 3, 2014 (Outside reader: Assistant Prof. UCSD)

Kate Fortmuller, “Part-Time Labor, Full-Time Dreams: Extras, Actors, and Hollywood’s On Screen Talent,” USC Cinematic Arts, May 20, 2014 (Outside reader: Assistant Prof. University of Alabama)

Allison Lauterbach, “Gagged: The Politics of Reproduction and U.S. Foreign Aid, 1963-2009,” History, April 28, 2014 (Chair) (now working in San Francisco law firm after completing JD at Berkeley)

Stephanie Hoover Yeung, “Framing the Fight: Post-9/11 Warfare and the Logistics of Representation,” Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, March 13, 2014 (Outside reader: faculty, private high school in Santa Barbara)

Ken Provencher, “Japan in Transnational Hollywood: Industry and Identity, 1985-1995” USC Cinematic Arts, Defense May 23, 2013 (Outside reader) (Editor, Bloomsbury Press)

Josh Moss, “Why Harry met Sally: Coupling Narratives and the Christian-Jewish Love Story,” USC Cinema Studies, June 12, 2012 (Outside reader; Assistant Professor, Cal State University, Chico)

Emily Wilson, “Sports Tattoos,” Annenberg School of Communication, USC, March 26, 2012 (outside member) MA Thesis

Sarah Hollenberg, “Art on Television: 1967-1974,” Department of Art History, April 19, 2012 (Outside reader) (Asst Prof University of Utah)

Brian Richard Jacobson, “Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and Early Cinema,” Cinema Studies, USC May 17, 2011 (outside reader) (Assistant Prof. University of Toronto)

Jeffrey Solomon, “Unsettling the Nation: Anticolonial Nationalism and Narratives of the Non-Western World in U.S. Literature and Culture, 1783-1860,” English, USC, March 8, 2011 (outside reader)

Deborah Hanan, “National Transgressions: Media Representations of the Mobile, Boundary-Busting American During Periods of Major Economic Crisis,” Annenberg School of Communications, USC, March 2, 2011 (outside reader)

Xiaofei Wang, “Constructing Japaneseness: War, Race, and American Cinema, 1924-1992,” Oct. 17, 2008 (chair) (Director of International Academic Research Institute, Turpan Academy

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Philip Chase: “William Gibbs McAdoo: The Last Progressive (1863-1941),” Oct. 14, 2008 (1st reader) (History teacher, Taft High School)

Serena Simoni, “Beyond Paradise and Power: Contending Arguments on the Future of the Transatlantic Relations and the West (1991-2001),” March 14, 2008 (Associate Professor, University of Alabama, Huntsville)

Co-Chair: Victoria Vantoch, “Ambassadors of the Air: The Airline Stewardess, Glamour, and Technology During the Cold War, 1945-1969,” April 2008 (Independent writer)

Liz Willis-Tropea, “Hollywood Glamour: Sex, Power, and Photography, 1925-1939.” Nov. 19, 2007 (first reader)

Carlos Godoy, Annenberg School of Communications (outside reader) spring 2008 (Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY)

Todd Gish: “Building the Other Los Angeles: Urban Housing in the Suburban Metropolis, 1900-1936” USC School of Policy, Planning and Development (outside reader), defense June 29, 2006

Co-Chair: Craig Loftin, “Passionate Anxieties: McCarthyism and Homosexual Identity in the United States, 1945-1965” Feb. 17, 2006 (Full-time Instructor USC 2006-2007; Instructor Cal State Fullerton, 2007-present)

Rob King, “The Keystone Film Company: Early Film Comedy and the Emergence of Mass Culture,” UCLA Cinema Studies, July 27, 2004 (outside reader) (Associate Professor, Columbia University)

Chair: Jim Welch, “Watching America: New Zealand National Identity and American Television in the 1960s” March 10, 2004 [teaching part-time in New Zealand]

Tom Zakim, “Los Angeles: The Greatest Experiment of Modernity (1880-1940),” Sept. 5, 2003 (1st reader) [Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley]

AnneMarie Kooistra, “Angels for Sale: A History of Prostitution in Los Angeles, 1880-1940,” July 9, 2003 (1st reader) [Associate Professor, Bethel University]

Roy W. Heidicker, “Yankee Workers and Rebel Gentlemen: The Triumph of Free Labor Soldiers in the American Civil War” May 22, 2002 (1st reader) [Historian with the Air Force at Seymour-Johnson AFB near Goldsboro, NC]

Co-Chair, Lynn Sacco, “Not Talking About ‘It’: A History of Incest in the United States,” May 2001 [Assistant Professor University of Tennessee (Knoxville)]

Chair: Peter LaChapelle, "That Mean Ol’ Oakie Boogie: Country Music, Migration, and the Construction of Whiteness: Southern California, 1936-1969." Dec. 10, 2001 [Associate

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Martin Meeker, “Come Out West: The Gay and Lesbian Migration to San Francisco, 1940s-1960s,” Sept. 22, 2000 (1st reader) [Lecturer, Univ. of Calif. Berkeley; San Francisco State Univ]

Rachel Standish, “Fashion for the Times: Fashion and Feminism in the 1920s,” March 27, 2000 (1st reader) [Assistant Professor, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, Ca.]

Mark Brady, “Reconstructing the Political Male: Politics and Gender in the Progressive Era, 1870-1924,” Jan. 14, 2000 (1st reader) [Asst. Prof. Chicago]

Kristi Woods, “’Be Vigorous But Not Brutal’: Race, Politics, and Police in Los Angeles, 1937- 1945,” April 30, 1999 (1st reader) [Associate Prof. Riverside Community College]

Chair: Emily Rader, "'So We Only Took 120 Acres': Creating A Settler Society in Rural Southern California,” May 1998 [Associate Professor, El Camino College]

Chair: George Potamianos, "Hollywood in the Hinterlands: Mass Culture in Two California Communities, 1896-1936," May 1998 (chair) [Assoc. Prof., College of the Redwoods]

Co-Chair: Jill Fields, "The Production of Glamour: A Social History of Intimate Apparel, 1909-1952," Sept. 1997 [Assoc. Prof. California State Univ., Fresno]

Chair: Lynn Luciano, "Looking Good: A Social History of Male Body Image in Postwar America," Sept. 1997 [Assoc. Prof., Cal State Dominquez Hills]

Rob Sturr, "Autobiography and the American Revolution: Soldier’s Narratives and Their Legacy in Antebellum America," August 1997 (English Dept) [Asst. Prof. Kent State Univ] Paul Hansom, “All Consuming Modernism the Photo Essay and Historical Consciousness," May 1996 (English Dept)

Co-Chair: Karen Ward Mahar, “Women, Filmmaking, and the Gendering of the American Film Industry, 1896-1928," Sept. 1995 [Professor, Sienna College]. Winner of Lerner-Scott Prize for the best dissertation in Women's History, 1995-1996, awarded Feb.1997; winner of J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship (Library of Congress), American Historical Association, 1996-97

Chair: Laurie Pintar, "Off Screen Realities,” Aug. 1995 [Visiting Professor, Loyola Marymount College; resigned position at Cornell College, Iowa]

Suzanne Borghei, "Internationalism at the Grassroots: Los Angeles and Its City Schools, 1916- 1953,” January 1995 (first reader) [Assistant Professor, Santa Monica College]

Chair: Clark Davis, "Living on the Ladder: Work, Culture, and Society in the Contested Transition to Corporate America, Los Angeles, 1900-1930,” September 1994 [was Associate Professor, Cal. State Fullerton, died in February 2003]

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Ross CVJohn Reed, “Burden and Honor: The United States Volunteers in the Southern Philippines, 1899-1901," May 1994 (first reader) [Lecturer Assistant Professor, University of Utah]

Verlaine Stoner McDonald, "Red Waves of Grain: An Analysis of Radical Farm Movement Rhetoric in Montana, 1918-1937," Communication Arts and Sciences, May 1994 (outside reader) [Assistant Professor, Berea College]

Lori Lisowski, “Guardians of Inseparable Union: Politics, Civil War, and Victory in Polk County, Iowa," July 1991 (first reader) [Archivist at National Archives]

Patrick Jeffs, "The Body and the Body Politic: Sexuality, Language, and Politics in American Poetry From Emerson to Rich" (English Dept), Dec. 1989

Jim Kraft, “From Stage to Studio: American Musicians, Sound Technology, and the Decline of Live Music, 1896-1946,” Sept. 1989 (first reader) [Professor, University of Hawaii]

John Maynard, "Venice West," June 1988 (first reader) [left academics for publishing career]

Cheree Carlson, “The Rhetoric of the Know Nothing Movement” (Communications) [Associate Professor University of Maryland]

CURRENT PHD STUDENTS

Simon Judkins (Chair; History)

Carlos Para (History)

Aaron Rich (Cinematic Arts)

Sara Bakerman (Cinematic Arts)

Peter Labuza (Cinematic Arts)

Robert Fogelson (Art History)

SERVICE: UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES:

Director, Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, Fall 2014-present

Initiator, Casden-Hebrew Union College Faculty & Graduate Student Workshop, Fall 2015-present

Faculty Advisory Board, USC Israeli Arts Initiative, Fall 2015-present

Faculty Advisory Board, USC Hillel, Fall 2015-present

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Advisory Board, Graduate Program in Visual Studies, Aug. 2010-present

Academic Advisory Board, Shoah Institute for Visual History, spring 2008-present

Co-Founder and Co-Director, Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, Sept. 1998—Aug. 2014

Member, University Policies and Procedures Committee, 2012-15

Member, University Committee on Appointments, Promotion and Tenure, Aug. 2007-Aug. 2009

Member, Search Committee for director of Shoah Institute for Visual History, Aug. 2008-May 2009

Chair, University Committee on Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure, Sept. 1998—June 2000

Member, University Committee on Appointments, Promotion and Tenure, Sept. 1996-June 2000

Steering Committee, University Committee on Academic Review, May 1999-June 2001

Steering Committee, Entertainment Studies Initiative, Annenberg School of Communications, Spring 1999—present

Co-Director, Celebrity Culture and Politics Seminar, Entertainment Studies Center, Annenberg School of Communication, USC, Fall 1999—present

Planning Committee Member, USC-Huntington California Studies Center, May 2003

Faculty Representative, USC Board of Trustees, Academic Affairs Committee, Sept. 1999—June 2000

Selection Committee, Phi Kappa Phi Book Prize, Fall 1999—Spring 2000

Member, USC Faculty Senate, Sept. 1997-June 1998

Member, Nominating Committee, USC Faculty Senate, Sept. 1997-May 1998

Member, Technology for the 21st Century Classroom, May 1997-present

Member, Social Issues Sub-Committee, General Education, Sept. 1996-present

Advisory Board, NEH Grant for ISLA Project, Spring 1996-present

Chair, American Public Life Subcommittee, General Education, Sept. 1990-May 1996

Elected Social Science Representative, General Education Full Committee, Sept. 1990-May 1996 (when old GE structure dissolved)

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Member, General Education Appeals Committee, Fall 1987-May 1996

Member, University Promotion and Tenure Appeals Committee, Jan. 1988-1996

Selection Committee, Faculty Innovation and Teaching Award, Spring 1992

Awards Committee, USC Associates Awards (Teaching and Research) and Burlington Northern Awards (Teaching and Research), Fall 1990

Steering Committee, President's Commission on Undergraduate Education, Fall 1988-August 1990

Sub-Committee on General Education and the Freshman Year Experience, Commission on Undergraduate Education, Fall 1988-Aug. 1990

Evaluator for Faculty Research and Innovation Fund, Spring 1988-present

Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Achievement Awards, Selection Committee, Fall 1987

Social Sciences Elected Representative to General Education Committee, 1984-1987

Chair, American Public Life Subcommittee, General Education, 1984-Fall 1986 Chair, Empirical Approaches Subcommittee, General Education, Fall 1986-Spr 1987

Member, Empirical Approaches Subcommittee, General Education, Fall 1987-Spring 1990

Dept Rep., American Public Life Subcommittee, 1980-84

Co-Chair, Western Culture Planning Committee, General Education, 1985-present

Member, Special Appeals Committee, General Education, Fall 1987-present

Member, Ethnic Faculty/Affirmative Action Committee, 1985-Spring 1987

Member, USC Summer Honors Program Guidance Committee, 1985-present

Member, Committee on Academic Policies and Procedures, 1984-85

Member, University Scholars Committee, 1983-84

Advisory Board, Study of Women and Men in Society, 1982-83

Member, Review Board for 5 Year Review of Center for the Humanities, 1981

Co-Director, "Labor and the Humanities Conference" (co-sponsored by USC Center for the

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COLLEGE COMMITTEES:

Co-Director, Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, Aug. 2014-present

Advisory Board, Graduate Program in Visual Studies, Aug. 2010-present

Thematic Option Retreat to Plan for New General Education Program, Oct 17, 2014

Fellow, Center for Excellence in Teaching 2012-2014

Member, Dornsife Committee on Non-Tenure-Track Promotions and Appointments, 2012-13

Member, Art History Search Committee for two open rank appointments in Modern/Contemporary Art, Fall 2012-2014

Member, University Policies and Procedures Committee, 2012-2014

Academic Advisory Board, Shoah Institute for Visual History, spring 2008-present

Member, College General Education Revision Steering Committee, Oct. 2004-May 2005

Member, Social Issues Subcommittee of General Education Revision Committee, Oct. 2004-May 2005

Member, College Strategic Plan Committee, Aug.-Nov. 2001

Steering Committee, Retreat for College Strategic Plan, Spring 2001

Selection Committee, Raubenheimer Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service, April 2000

Member, Multi-Media Literacy Project, May 1997

President, Faculty Council of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, 1997-1998

Elected Member, Faculty Council, College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences, April 1995-May 1999

Selection Committee, Raubenheimer Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service, April 1999

Search Committee to Select a new Dean of Research for the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, December 1997-January 1998

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Member, Faculty Caucus (of Faculty Council) 1997-1999

Member, Faculty Council Executive Committee, 1998-1998

Member, Dean's Committee to Revise Procedures for Selecting and Evaluating Department Chairs, Spring-Fall 1997

Member, Social Issues SubCommittee, General Education, Fall 1996-1998

Member, Planning Committee for Social Issues Speaker Series, General Education, Fall 1996-present

Member, Dean's Committee to Revise Procedures for Selecting and Evaluating Department Chairs, Spring-Fall 1997

Governing Board, Thematic Options, Aug. 1991-1995

Member, SWMS Media Project, Fall 1990-1996

General Education Retreat and Committee on General Education, 12/86-spring 87

Member, Social Sciences Division Budget Advisory Committee, 1984-1988

Member, Social Sciences Division Sports Information Program Advisory Committee, 1986-1988

Member, Search Committee for SWMS Streisand Chair in Sexuality & Intimacy, 1985-86

Member, USC-Irvine Foundation High School Teachers Program, 1985-1986

Member, Social Sciences Division Computer Planning Committee, 1982-83 Divisional Marshall, Commencement Day Ceremonies, 1984, 1983, 1979

Member, University Bookstore Review Committee, 1982-83

Member, American Studies Curriculum Committee, 1979-80

DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES:

Co-Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, Aug. 2017-present

Member, History Department Graduate Committee, 2015-present

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Ross CVChair, Executive Committee, History Department 2012-13, 2014-15

Co-Chair, Promotion Committee for Brett Sheehan, Aug-Sept 2014

Department Undergraduate Committee, 2013-14

Chair, History Department, August 2003—2010

Chair, Search Committee for Four Senior Positions in American History, May 1998-Sept. 2000; August 2001-May 2003 (served as chair 4 of last 5 years)

Member, History Dept. Graduate Committee, Fall 2002-present

Member, Dept. Ad-Hoc Space Committee, Spring 2003

Member, History Department Speakers Series , Aug, 2001-June 2002

Director of Graduate Studies, History Dept., Fall 1994-June 1999

Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Fall 1999—present

Coordinator, History Department Colloquium Series, Fall 1993-1998

Search Committee, Hubbard Chair, Fall 1996-1997

Faculty Guidance Committee, Jason Glenn, Lon Kurishige, Margo Bistis

Search Committee, Chicano History position, Fall 1995-1996

Organizer and Coordinator, History ABD Graduate Student Seminars, 1993-present

Search Committee, Asian-American History position, 1993-1994

Member, Search Committee, Target of Opportunity Appointment, Fall 1991

Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee, Fall 1989 - Spring 1990

Member, Search Committee for American Women's History, 1989-1990.

Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1986-May 1988

Vice-Chair/Chair, Search Committee for Latin American Historian, 1985-86

Participant, Mutual Learning Program, 1983-present

Department Representative to University Computer Center, 1982-1984

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Member, Search Committee for European Historian, 1982-83

Coordinator, History Department Colloquium Series, 1979-1983

Member, Graduate Program Revision Committee, 1980-82

Member, Honors Program Committee, 1980-82

Member, Ambition Seminar, 1980-81

Member, History Department Open House/History Day Committee, 1979-80

Member, American Studies Graduate Curriculum Committee, 1979

Participant, History Dept/USC Outreach Program (contacting High School students admitted to USC), 1980-present

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