A Few Words About my Life and Career
I must have been born with a restless nature, something that
will explain why I have traveled so much, changed fields so
many times. Born in Montreal, Canada,
I have lived most of my life in the Los Angeles area,
where for
some decades now I have been a professor of history at the
California Institute of Technology. My publications have
included works of history, biography, and criticism, but in
recent years I have turned to more imaginative forms of writing
-- a book of family stories entitled The Man Who Swam Into
History (2005), and two novels, King of Odessa (2003)
and Red Star, Crescent Moon: A Muslim-Jewish Love Story
(2010).
My works of narrative history and/or biography include
Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed (1975
Commonwealth Club of California medal for Non Fiction), which
was used as the basis of the Academy Award winning film
Reds; Crusade of the Left (1970), an account of
the Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War and
Mirror in the Shrine (1988), a multi-voiced work that
deals with three American sojourners in 19th century Japan.
I have also produced three volumes about the historical film,
a book of essays, Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film
to Our Idea of History (1995), an anthology,
Revisioning History: Filmmakers and the Construction of a
New Past (1995) and a summation of my theories on the visual
media, History on Film / Film on History (2006).
The first of this trio was named Book of the Year by the
international journal, Film Historia.
My writings have been translated into several foreign languages,
including French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese,
Korean, Hungarian, and Polish. I have won four fellowships from
the National Endowment for the Humanities, three Fulbright
fellowships, and have been a visiting professor at the
University of Barcelona; the European University Institute in
Florence; the University of La Laguna in the Canary Islands;
Kyushu University in Japan; and the University of Tolima in
Colombia.
In the late eighties, I created and served for six years as
editor of the film section of the American Historical Review;
in the nineties I helped to found
Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice;
and in 2010 I joined the editorial board of
Reviews in American History. My involvement with film
productions includes time spent as consultant on both dramatic
features and documentaries, including:
Reds, The Good Fight, Darrow, and Tango of Slaves. My
essays and works of fiction have appeared in
Partisan Review, Antioch Review, Ploughshares, and
Michigan Quarterly Review, and I have contributed
occasional pieces and reviews to the
New Republic, the Progressive, the New York Times, the Los
Angeles Times, the Guardian (Manchester) and the
Times (of London).
Over the years I and my wife, Nahid Massoud, have visited more
than thirty countries on six continents. We are both devoted
swimmers (we met in a YMCA pool), hikers, and practitioners of
Iyengar Yoga. Nahid Massoud, who worked in psychiatry for many
years, have more recently become director of an art space named
Sharq (the East), devoted to showing the works of bi cultural
artists whose roots lay in the Middle East or South Asia. She
has hosted events and exhibitions for artists from Lebanon,
Palestine, Israel, Kurdistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Armenia.
Nahid is also involved in raising orchids and succulents and
practicing photography.
In the summer of 2010, as this is being written, I am involved
in three writing projects -- a book about my relationship with
Nahid, entitled My Wife, the Muslim; a work about my
life as a historian to be called
The Man Who Swam Out of History (chapters from these have
been published in Antioch Review and
Michigan Quarterly Review (see section In Progress).
I have also begun a historical novel set in the Caliphate of
Cordoba in the tenth century, a story of a forbidden love.
Curriculum Vitae
GENERAL INFORMATION
Position: Emeritus Professor of History, California Institute of Technology
Address: Humanities/Social Sciences, 101-40, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125
Telephone and FAX: (310) 459-6041 E-mail: rr@hss.caltech.edu
Education: PhD
in History, University of California, Los Angeles: 1966
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS
University of California Regents Fellowship: 1963-64
University of California University Fellowship: 1964-65
Old Dominion Fund (full salary grant): 1969-70
American Philosophical Society (travel grant): 1970
Fulbright-Hays Senior Teaching Fellowship - Japan: 1974-75
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship: 1977
National Endowment for the Humanities, Senior Fellowship: 1981-82
Fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu: 1981-82
National Endowment for the Humanities, Senior Fellowship: 1989-90
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Fellowship: 1994
Fulbright-Hays Senior Teaching/Research Fellowship - Spain: 1994
Humanities Center Visiting Scholar: University of Georgia, 1997
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, University of Manchester, 1997
Fulbright Chair, European University Institute, Florence: 1998
Getty Scholar, Getty Research
Institute, 2002-2003
AWARDS / HONORS
Silver Medal Award, 1975 - Commonwealth Club of California: Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed
Book of the Year 1995 - Visions of the Past - Awarded by Film Historia
Barnes and Nobel Discover Great
New Writers, 2003 - for King of Odessa
TEACHING
Teaching Assistant: University of California, Los Angeles, 1961-63
Assistant Professor: University of Oregon, 1965-66
Assistant, Associate, and Professor: California Institute of Technology, 1966-
Visiting Professor: Kyushu and Seinan Gakuin Universities, Japan, 1974-75
Visiting Professor: UCLA, Fall 1988
Visiting Professor: University of Barcelona, Fall 1994
Visiting Professor: University of Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Dec. 1994
Visiting Professor: University of Manchester, 1997
Visiting Lecturer: European Humanities Research Center, Oxford University, 1997
Fulbright Professor: European University Institute, Florence 1998
Visiting Professor, University
of St. Andrews, Scotland, Oct 2010
BOOKS
Crusade of the Left: The Lincoln Battalion and the Spanish Civil War. N.Y.:Pegasus, 1969. Republished: Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1980.
New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction
Publishers, 2009 (With a new introduction)
Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1975;
Paperbacks: New York: Vintage, 1981; Cambridge: Harvard, 1992.
Quality Paperback Book Club Selection, 1982
Awarded: Silver Medal, Commonwealth Club of California, 1975
Translations, Foreign Editions:
John Reed: rivoluzionario romantico. Rome: Editori Riuniti, 1976.
John Reed: le romantisme revolutionnaire. Paris: Francois Maspero, 1976; republished, Editions Seuil, 1982.
John Reed: Un revolucionario romantico. Mexico, D.F.: Ediciones Era, 1979
Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed. London: Penguin, 1982
Romantikus Forralmor: John Reed Elete. Budapest: Kossuth, 1983
John Reed Pyeongjeon.
Seoul: Agora, 2007
Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters in Meiji Japan. Cambridge: Harvard, 1988.
Paperback: Cambridge: Harvard, 1991.
History Book Club Selection: 1988.
Translations:
Hearn, Morse, Griffis no Nihon. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2000.
Lo Specchio e il Santuario.
Milan: Feltrinelli, 2001.
Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History. Cambridge: Harvard, 1995.
Award: 1995 Book of the Year, Film Historia (Barcelona)
Translations:
El pasado en imagenes: El desafio del cine a nuestra idea de la historia.
Madrid: Ariel,
1997.
King of Odessa. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2003.
Paperback:
Northwestern University Press, 2007
The Man Who Swam Into
History: The (Mostly) True Story of my Jewish Family.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.
History on Film / Film on History. London and New York: Pearson, 2006.
Second edition with a new introduction: 2012
Portuguese Translation: A historia nos filmes / Os filmes na historia. Sao Paolo, Brazil: Paz e Terral Ltda, 2010.
Spanish: Madrid, Rialp, forthcoming 2013
Red Star, Crescent Moon:
A Muslim Jewish Love Story. (Washington DC: NAP, 2010).
EDITED WORKS, ANTHOLOGIES, COLLECTIONS
Protest from the Right.
Beverly Hills: Glencoe - Macmillan Co., 1968, 2nd Edition, 1970.
Seasons of Rebellion: Protest and Radicalism in Recent America. New York: Holt, 1972.
Republished:
Washington D.C.:University Press of America, 1980.
Los cantos de la conmocion:
Veinte años de rock. Barcelona: Tusquets, 1974
Revisioning History: Filmmakers and the Construction of the Past. Princeton, N.J.:Princeton University Press, 1995.
Translation: Young-hwa,
Yuck-sa; Young-hwa wa sero-oun gwagur eimannam. Seoul: Sonamoo
Publishing Union, 2002.
Experiments in Rethinking History. Co-editor with Alun Munslow.
New York and London: Routledge, 2004.
The Blackwell Companion
to Historical Film. Co-editor with Constantin Parvulescu.
Oxford: Blackwells-Willey, 2013
JOURNALS
- GUEST EDITOR
“Protest in the Sixties,”
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences,
382 (March 1969).
“The Historical Film,”
Film Historia, 5 (March 1995).
ARTICLES / ESSAYS / CHAPTERS IN
BOOKS (selected)
“The Men of the Abraham Lincoln
Battalion,” Journal of American History
54 (September 1967) 327-338.
“The Kingdom of Good: A Look
at the Radical Right Today” Engineering and Science 31 (March
1968) 24-28.
“American Commissars in Spain”
South Atlantic Quarterly 67 (Autumn 1968) 688-702.
“The Times They are a-Changin': The Music of Protest” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 382 (March 1969) 131-144.
Reprintings: Reflections
Peter I Rose, ed. The Study of Society. New York: Random House (1970), 915-928
Joyce Gelb and Marian Palley, eds.. The Politics of Social Change, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1970) 242-254
Nils I.Bateman and David M. Peterson, eds. Targets for Change: Perspectives on an Active Sociology. Waltham: Xerox (1971) 197-208
Alfred de Grazia, Eric Weise and John Appel, eds., Old Government, New People. Glenview: Scott, Foresman (1971) 96-110
Irving G. Hendrick and Reginald Jones, eds. Student Dissent in the Public Schools. Boston:Houghton-Mifflin (1972) 48-62
Francis and Ludmila Voekler, Mass Media: Forces in Our Society. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1972) 168-176
George H. Lewis, ed. Side-Saddle on the Golden Calf: Social Structure and Popular Culture in America. Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear (1972) 290-304
Alan Casty, ed. Mass Media and Mass Man. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1973) 110-118
Alvin E. Winder, ed. Adolescence: Contemporary Studies. New York: D. Van Nostrand (1974) 210-228
Gary Gumpert and Robert Cathcart, eds., Intermedia: Interpersonal Communication in the Media World. New York: Oxford (1979) 484-500.
Translation:
“Los Tiempos
estan cambiando: la musica de protesta,” in Covian and Rosenstone,
eds., Los cantos de la conmocion. Barcelona: Tusquets (1974)
219-246.
“Manchester Boddy and the
L.A. Daily News,” California Historical Quarterly.
49 (Dec. 1970) 291-307.
“Mr. Jones, the Professors and the Freaks: The Philosophical Implications of Rock”' Popular Music and Society 2 (Fall 1972) 56-61.
Translation:
“Mr. Jones, los profesores
y los freaks (o todo hombre su propio filosofo supremo): las implicaciones
filosoficas del rock.” Covian and Rosenstone, eds., Los cantos
de la conmocion, 247-262.
"John Reed, " in
John Garraty, ed., Encyclopedia of American Biography.
New York: Harper & Row (1974), 896-97.
“The Counter Culture in America” The American Studies Newsletter (published by the Japanese Association for American Studies, Tokyo), No. 37 (Mary 1975) 1-7.
Translation:
“Amerika no kaunta karucha.” Mita Bungaku 62 (Nov. 1975)
No. 11, 42-57.
"Steinbeck's America:
Myth and Reality," Kyushu American Literature, 17 (Sept.
1976), 85-87.
“The Mysterious Flavor of
Cultural Radicalism” in Joseph Boskin, ed., Issues in American
Society. Encino: Glencoe-Macmillan, (1978) 319-329.
“Reflections: On the Spanish Civil War.” The Progressive 42 (May 1978) 20-21.
“Mabel Dodge: Evenings in New York,” in Peter Quennell, ed. The Genius in the Drawing Room: The Salon in Europe and America from the 18th to the 20th Century. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1980) 131-151.
Reprinting:
Affairs of the Mind. Washington, D.C.: New York: New Republic
Books, 1980, 131-151.
“Learning From Those 'Imitative'
Japanese: Another Side of the American Experience in the Mikado's Empire,”
American Historical Review. 85 (June, 1980) 572-595.
“Reds Distorts American Radicalism,”
OAH Newsletter, 10 (May, 1982) 13-14.
“Reds as History,” Reviews in American History, 10 (September, 1982) 299-310.
Republished:
The Guardian (February 27, 1982) 11.
Alan Rosenthal, ed. Why Docudrama: Fact-Fiction on Film and TV. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois, 1999, 296-310.
Translations:
“Reds e la storia,” Cinemasessanta (March, 1982);
“Un heros communiste selon Hollywood,” La nouvelles litteraires (April 4, 1982);
“Reds: Historia,
Mistificacion y peligros de la fama,” El Viejo Topo (May,
1982) 54-60.
“Radicalism and the Limits
of Reform: The Case of John Reed,” in George Pozetta and David Colburn,
eds., in Reform and Reformers the Progressive Era: Essays in
Honor of George Mowry. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood, 1983,
133-52.
“International Brigades,”
“Abraham Lincoln Battalion,” “Volunteers,” “British Battalion,”
“Commune de Paris Battalion,” and “Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion.”
In James W. Cortada, ed., An Historical Dictionary of the Spanish
Civil War. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1983. 5-7, 94, 133,
267-69, 308, 475-76.
“The Empire of History,”
Humanities in Society. 3 (Fall, 1980) 327-333.
"What is History on Film,"
Humanities Guide, Hawaii International Film Festival.
Honolulu: Hawaii Committee for the Humanities (1983), 13-15.
“The Power of the Other:
Edward S. Morse and the Challenge of Japan,” in Discovering
the Other: Humanities East-West, Malibu, Calif.: Undena, (1984) 63-83.
“Griffis in Fukui,”
Ploughshares 10 (September, 1984) Nos. 2 & 3, 28-51.
“Genres, History and Hollywood:
A Review Article,” Comparative Studies in Society and History,
27 (April, 1985) 367-75
“Romania, Rumania, Roumania,”
Michigan Quarterly Review, 25 (Winter, 1986) 63-75.
“Chaim Baer,” Partisan Review, 53 (July, 1986) 389-99.
“The 50-Year Wound in the
Heart--Reliving the Spanish Civil War,” Michigan Quarterly
Review 27 (Spring, 1988), 342-54.
“History, Memory, Documentary:
'The Good Fight',”Cineaste, 17 (No. 1, 1989), 12-15.
“History in Images / History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting History on Film,” American Historical Review 93 (Dec. 1988), 1173-1185.
Republished:
Marnie Hughes-Warrington, ed, The History on Film Reader. London: Routledge, 2009, 30-41.
Translations:
“Geschichte in Bildern / Geschichte in Worten: Uber die Moglichkeit, Geschichte wirklich zu verfilmen,” in Rainer Rother, ed., Bilder schreiben Geschichte: Der Historiker im Kino, 65-83.
“Historia em imagens, historia em palavras: reflexoes sobre as possibilidades de plasmar a historia en imagens, O Olho da historia; Revista de historia contemporanea, Vol. 1, No. 5 (1998), 105-116
“Historia w obrazach/historia
w slowach: rozwazania nad mozlitoscia przedstawienia historii na tasmie
filmowej,” in Iwona Kurz, ed., Film i historia. Warsaw:
University of Warsaw Press, 2008, 93-116.
“Introduction to Film Reviews,” American Historical Review
94 (Oct. 1989), 1031-1033
95 (Oct. 1990), 1115-1117;
96 (Oct. 1991), 1114-1116.
97
(Oct. 1992), 1138-1141.
“Revisioning History: Contemporary
Filmmakers and the Construction of the Past,” Comparative Studies
in Society and History, 32 (Oct. 1990), 822-837.
“What You Think About When
You Think About Writing a Book on History and Film,” Public
Culture, 3 (Fall, 1990), 49-66
“Walker: The Dramatic Film
as Historical Truth,” Film Historia, 2, No. 1,
(1992), 3-12.
“JFK: Historical Fact/Historical Film,” American Historical Review, 97 (April, 1992), 506-11.
Republished:
The Times Higher Education Supplement (UK), August 21, 1992, pp. 13-15
Don Kunz, ed., The Films of Oliver Stone. Lanham, Md. & London: The Scarecrow Press, 1997, 199-206
Alan Rosenthal, ed. Why Docudrama?
Southern Illinois, 1999, 333-339.
“Experiments in Writing the
Past -- Is Anybody Interested?” Perspectives
(Dec. 1992), 10-20.
“Like Writing History With
Lightning: Historical Film/Historical Truth,” Contention, 2
(Spring 1993), 191-203.
"Experiments in Narrating
Histories," (with Bryant Simon and Moshe Sluhovsky), Perspectives,
32 (Sept. 1994), 7-10.
“The Historical Film: Looking at the Past in a Post-Literate Age,” in Lloyd Kramer, ed., Learning History in America: Schools, Cultures, and Politics, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota (1994) 141-160.
Reprinting: Marcia Landy, ed., The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000), 50-66.
Translation: Haim
Bresheeth et al, eds, Cinema and Memory: A Dangerous Relationship?
(Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2004), 13-32.
(Hebrew)
“John Reed,” in Buhle and
Kaye, eds., The American Radical (New York: Routledge,
1994), 143-150.
“War and Revolution: The
Reporting of John Reed,” introduction to The Collected Works of
John Reed (New York: Modern Library, 1995).
“Film Historique/Verité
Historique,” Vingtième Siècle, No. 46 (April-June 1995),
pp. 161-175.
"La Historia en la Pantalla,"
M. Antonia Paz and Julio Montero, eds., Historia y Cine (Madrid:
Complutense, 1995), pp. 15-33.
“The Future of the Past: Film and the Beginnings of Postmodern History,” in Vivian Sobchack, ed., The Persistence of History: Cinema, Television, and the Modern Event (New York and London: Routledge, 1996), 201-218.
Translation: \“Die Zukunft der Vergangenheit: Film und die Anfange
postmoderner Geschichte”
in Eva Hohenberger and Judith Keilbach, eds., Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit:
Dokumentarfilm Fernsehen, und Geschichte
(Berlin: Verlag Vorwerk, 2003), 45-64.
"The Crisis of History
/ The Promise of Film," Cinema, Past and Present,
Media International Australia, No. 80 (May, 1996), 5-11.
“Editorial,” Rethinking History
1 (Winter 1997), 227-234
Reprinted in World History Bulletin, 13 (Fall, 1997), pp. 16-19.
2 (Summer 1998), 139-142
3 (Spring 1999), 1-5
4 (Summer 2000), 123-125
5 (Summer 2001), 193-94
7
(Summer 2003), 119-121
“Representing the Past: The
Crisis of History / The Promise of Film,” Jeff Doyle et al eds.,
Writings on Cinemas' Histories (Canberra, Australia: NFDA / AFDA,
1998), pp. 23-40.
“Rethinking History: Theory,
Practice, and New Ways of Telling the Past,” Perspectives
, 36 (April 1998), 21-25.
“Reflections on Reflections
on History in Images / History in Words,” Screening the Past
(online publication - April 1999).
“Reel History - With Missing
Reels?,” Perspectives, 37 (Nov. 1999), 19-22.
“Oliver Stone as Historian,” in Robert Toplin, ed. Oliver Stone's USA (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000), 26-39.
Translations:
“Oliver Stone: un storico,” Contemporanea, 3 (Oct. 2000), 701-14.
“Oliver Stone: historiador da America recente,” J Novoa et al eds, Cinematografo: Um olhar sobre a história (Salvador,Sao Paolo: EDUFBA/Editora UNESP, 2009), 393-408.
“Olive Stone jako historyk,”
Piotr Witek and Marek Wozniak, eds, Swiat Z Historia
(Lublin: Uniwersytett Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej, 2010), 13-26.
“A History of What Has Not Yet Happened,” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, 4 (Summer, 2000), 183-192.
Reprinted; Marina Kostova
and Blagova Kunovski, eds., Rain: The World About Milcho Manchevksi's
'Before the Rain' (Skopje: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004), 132-35,
“Introduction to the Japanese
edition,” Hearn, Griffis, Morse no Nihon (Tokyo: Heibonsha:
2000), 9-17.
“October as History, ” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, 5 (No.1, Summer 2001), 255-74.
Translation:
“'Ottobre fra cinema e storia,” Intersezioni, 20 (No.
3, Dec. 2000),
“Introduction to Italian
edition,” Lo Specchio e il Santuario. Milan: Feltrinelli,
2001, 17-21.
““Introduction” to “Experiments
in Narrative,” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice,
5 (No.3, Winter 2001), 411-16,
“Film, Television, and Historical
Knowledge,” Sarah Maza and Lloyd Kramer, eds., The Blackwell Companion
to Historical Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 466-481.
“To Leningrad,” Antioch Review, 60 (No. 1, Winter 2002), 141-149,
Translation: “Rumo a
Leningrado,” Revista O Olho da Historia, www.oolhodahistoria.ufba.br
“Izzy the Red,” Michigan
Quarterly Review, 61 (No. 4, Fall 2002), 569-579.
“Does a Filmic Writing of
History Exist?,” History and Theory, 41 (No. 4, Dec. 2002),
134-44.
“Spaseeba, Tricky
Dick,” Antioch Review, 61 (Summer, 2003), 525-534.
“Historical Film / Historical
Thought,” South African Historical Journal, 48 (May, 2003).
10-22.
“The Reel Joan of Arc: Reflections
on the Theory and Practice of the Historical Film,” The Public
Historian, 25 (No. 3, Summer 2003), 61-78.
“Comments on science in the
visual media,” Public Understanding of Science, 12 (July, 2003),
335-339.
“Confessions of a Postmodern
(?) Historian,” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice
8 (No. 1, March 2004), 149-166.
“Inventing Historical Truth on the Silver Screen,” Cineaste. 29 (No. 2, Spring 2004), 29-33.
Translation: “Inventando
la verdad historica en la gran pantalla,” Gloria Camarero et al eds.,
Una Ventana Indiscreta: La Historia Desde el Cine. Madrid:
Universidad Carlos III, 2008, 9-18.
“Introduction,” “Prologue,”
and “The Man Who Swam,” from The Man Who Swam Into History,
Keith Jenkins and Alun Munslow, eds, The Nature of History Reader
(London and New York: Routledge, 2004), 155-170.
“Introduction: Practice and
Theory,” in Robert A. Rosenstone and Alun Munslow, eds,, Experiments
in Rethinking History (New York and London: Routledge, 2004), 1-7.
“Writing Odessa,” Hogtown
Creek Review, 5(Fall 2004), 30-31.
“The Real Red Menace,”
Michigan Quarterly Review, 44 (No. 2, Spring 2005), 223-235.
“My Wife, the Muslim,”
Antioch Review, 63 (No.2, Spring 2005), 234-46.
“La audiencia modela la historia,”
in Julio Montero and Jose Cabeza, ed.s, Por el precio de una entrada
. Madrid: Ediciones Rialp, 2006, 351-362,
“In Praise of the Biopic,”
Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film.
Texas A&M University Press, 2007, 11-29.
“Epilogue: The Promise of
History on Film,” Leen Engelen, ed., European Perspectives
on History and Film (Ghent: Academia Press, 2007), 255-64.
“Space for the Bird to Fly,”
in Sue Morgan et al eds., Manifestos for History (New York: Routledge,
2007), 11-18.
“A Historian in Spite of
Myself,” Rethinking History, 11 (No. 4, Dec. 2007), 589-95.
A response to five scholars on a Forum devoted to my book History
on Film / Film on History.
“My Wife, Their Sister,”
Antioch Review, 66 (Winter 2008), 62-74,
“Edward Sylvester Morse:
Scientist and Japanologist,” America Asia and the Pacific:
The Edward Sylvester Morse Collection. Marlborough: Adam Matthew
digital, 2008.
“Dokumentarni Film,”
Illuminace: Casopis Pro Teorii, Historii, a Estetiku Filmu, Vol.
20. No. 3 (2008), 107-122. Czech translation of Chapter
4, History on Film / Film on History, “Documentary.”
“What's a Nice Historian
Like You Doing in a Place Like This?,” Rethinking History,
13 (No. 1, March 2009), 17-25.
“Introduction to the Transaction
Edition” Crusade of the Left: The Abraham Lincoln Battalion in
the Spanish Civil War. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers,
2009, xi-xviii.
“Guess Who's Coming to the
AHA Film Festival,” Perspectives,
47, No. 8 (Nov. 2009, 13-14.
“The Man Who Swam Out of
History: Spain,” Reviews in American History, 37 (Dec. 2009),
641-658.
“Buried in a Footnote, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, 14 (Jan 2010), 58-64.
“The Only Jew in Jinat,”
Antioch Review, 68 (No. 4, Fall 2010), 642-654.
“Oliver Stone: Historian
of Recent America.” Cynthia Lucia et al eds., Blackwell's
History of American Film. Oxford: Blackwell's (forthcoming).
“To See the Past,” Polish
translation of Chapter 1 from History on Film / Film on History,
in Ewa Domanska, ed., Theory of knowledge about the past and the
contemporary human sciences Poznan: Wydawnictwo Poznanskie (forthcoming)
“Mediterranean Encounters
in Rabat,” in Dina Iordonova, ed, Film Festival Yearbook 4: Human
Rights Festivals (St Andrews: St Andrews Film Studies, forthcoming).
TRANSLATIONS:
French
John Reed: le romantisme revolutionnaire. Paris: Francois Maspero, 1976;
Republished: Editions Seuil, 1982.
“Un
hero communiste selon Hollywood,” La nouvelles litteraires
(April 4, 1982);
“Film Historique/Verité
Historique,” Vingtième Siècle, No. 46 (April-June 1995),
161-175.
“La rééecriture de
l''histoire aux Etats-Unis par Oliver Stone.”
J Novoa et al eds, Le inéématographe. Un regard sur l''histoire
/ I cinematóógrafo. Um Olhar sobre a históória (forthcoming,
2009)
Spanish
John
Reed: Un revolucionario romantico. Mexico, D.F.: Ediciones Era,
1979
“Los Tiempos estan cambiando:
la musica de protesta” and “Mr. Jones, los profesores y los freaks
(o todo hombre su propio filosofo supremo): las implicaciones filosoficas
del rock,” in Marcel Covian and Robert Rosenstone, eds.,
Los cantos de la conmocion: Veinte años de rock. Barcelona: Tusquets,
1974
“Reds: Historia, Mistificacion y peligros de la fama,”
El Viejo Topo (May, 1982) 54-60.
"La Historia en la
Pantalla," M. Antonia Paz and Julio Montero, eds., Historia
y Cine. Madrid: Complutense, 1995, pp. 15-33.
El pasado en imagenes:
El desafio del cine a nuestra idea de la historia.
Madrid: Ariel, 1997.
“La
audiencia modela la historia,” in Julio Montero and Jose Cabeza, eds.,
Por el precio
de una entrada (Madrid: Ediciones Rialp, 2006), 351-362.
“Inventando la verdad
historica en la gran pantalla,” Gloria Camarero et al eds., Una
Ventana Indiscreta: La Historia Desde el Cine (Madrid: Universidad
Carlos III, 2008), 9-18.
Italian
John
Reed: rivoluzionario romantico. Rome: Editori Riuniti, 1976.
“Reds
e la storia,” Cinemasessanta
(March, 1982);
“Oliver
Stone: un storico,” Contemporanea, 3 (Oct. 2000), 701-14.
Lo
Specchio e il Santuario. Milan: Feltrinelli, 2001.
“Ottobre fra cinema
e storia,” Intersezioni, 20 (No. 3, Dec. 2000), 319-342.
German
“Geschichte in Bildern
/ Geschichte in Worten: Uber die Moglichkeit, Geschichte wirklich zu
verfilmen,” in Rainer Rother, ed., Bilder schreiben Geschichte:
Der Historiker im Kino, 65-83;
“Die Zukunft der Vergangenheit:
Film und die Anfange postmoderner Geschichte” in Eva Hohenberger and
Judith Keilbach, eds., Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit: Dokumentarfilm
Fernsehen, und Geschichte (Berlin: Verlag Vorwerk, 2003), 45-64.
Japanese
“Amerika
no kaunta karucha.” Mita Bungaku 62 (November 1975) No. 11,
42-57.
Hearn, Morse, Griffis
no Nihon. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1999.
Hungarian
Romantikus
Forralmor: John Reed Elete. Budapest: Kossuth, 1983
Korean
Young-hwa, Yuck-sa; Young-hwa
wa sero-oun gwagur eimannam. Seoul: Sonamoo Publishing Union,
2002.
Visions
of the Past. Seoul: Window on the World, forthcoming.
John
Reed Pyeongjeon. Seoul: Agora, 2007.
Portuguese
“Historia em imagens,
historia em palavras: reflexoes sobre as possibilidades de plasmar a
historia en imagens, O Olho da historia; Revista de historia contemporanea,
Vol. 1, No. 5 (1998), 105-116.
“Rumo
a Leningrado,” O Olho da historia,
“Oliver Stone: historiador
da America recente,” J Novoa et al eds, Cinematografo: Um olhar
sobre a história (Salvador, Sao Paolo: EDUFBA/Editora UNESP, 2009),
393-408.
A historia nos
filmes / Os filmes na historia.
Sao Paolo, Brazil: Paz e Terra Ltda, 2010.
Hebrew
“Looking at the Past
in a Post Literate Age,” Haim Bresheeth et al, eds, Cinema and
Memory: A Dangerous Relationship? (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center
for Jewish History, 2004), 13-32
Czech
“Dokumentarni Film,”
Illuminace: Casopis Pro Teorii, Historii, a Estetiku Filmu, Vol.
20. No. 3 (2008), 107-122.
Polish.
“Historia w obrazach/historia
w slowach: rozwazania nad mozlitoscia przedstawienia historii na tasmie
filmowej,” (translation of “History in Images, History in
Words”), in Iwona Kurz, ed., Film i historia. Warsaw:
University of Warsaw Press, 2008, 93-116.
“Olive Stone jako historyk,”
Piotr Witek and Marek Wozniak, eds, Swiat Z Historia (Lublin:
Uniwersytett Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej, 2010), 13-26.
“To See the Past,”
Polish translation of Chapter 1 from History on Film / Film on History,
in Ewa Domanska, ed., Theory of knowledge about the past and the
contemporary human sciences Poznan: Wydawnictwo Poznanskie (forthcoming)
EDITORIAL
California History, Editorial Advisory Board: 1987-88
Film and History, Editorial Advisory Board: 1984 -
American Historical Review, Corresponding Editor: 1989-1994.
Film Historia (Barcelona), Associate Editor: 1994 -
Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, U.S. Editor: 1997 - 2003; Founding Editor, 2003 -
New Academia Publishing , Editorial Board, 2004 -
Reviews in American History,
Editorial Board, 2009 -
BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS
More than forty in the following
publications: American Historical Review,
Common Knowledge, Journal of American History, Journal of Interdisciplinary
History, Journal of Oriental Studies, Reviews in American History,
The Annals, New Republic, The Progressive,
New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post,
Cineaste
FILM AND TELEVISION
Academic:
Hawaii International Film Festival: Advisor to Planning Committee, 1981-1985.
Eric Barnouw Award Committee, OAH Annual Award for Best Work of History on
Film, 1986-88 (Chair 1987)
Film and History Committee, American Historical Association, 1987 -
National Board of Advisors, Media Alternatives Project, 1991-1993
International Advisory Board, Centre of Film Studies, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 2005-
Juror, International Documentary Festival: Academia Film Olomouc 2008. Olomouc, Czech Republic, April 15-20, 2008.
Speaker and Panelist at
the film festival Encontre Mediterraneenes: Cinema et les droits
de l'homme, Rabat, Morocco, Nov. 12 - 15 2009.
Production:
1972-82: Reds. Dramatic feature film. Historical Consultant.
The Spanish Civil War, CBS Television Documentary. Commentator, Script Adviser.
1983: The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. Documentary. Narration Writer; Historical Advisor. Funded by NEH.
1991. Darrow. Dramatic feature. Historical Advisor. Funded by the NEH, PBS, and American Playhouse
1993. Tango of Slaves. Documentary on the Warsaw Ghetto. Consultant to director Ilan Ziv.
Screening Histories: The Filmmaker Strikes Back. BBC Documentary. Host, Co- narrator, talking head.
Rebels. CBC Documentary. Talking head.
2004 Emma Goldman: A Troublesome Presence. Talking head.
2010 God and Daring:
The Life of Josemaria Escriva. PBS Documentary. Academic
Advisory Board.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES, SEMINARS
Paper: “The Men of
the Lincoln Battalion,” Organization of American Historians Convention,
Cincinnati, April 1966.
Paper: “The Artistic
Renaissance in America, 1890-1940,” English Literature Society of Japan,
Beppu, October 27, 1974.
Paper: “The Counter
Culture in America,” Japanese American Studies Association, Annual
Conference, Kyoto, April 5, 1975.
Paper: “Steinbeck's
America: Myth and Reality,” Kyushu American Literature Society, 21st
annual seminar, Fukuoka, May 10, 1975.
Session chair: “Asia
and Film,” Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, annual conference,
Anaheim, June 10, 1978.
Paper: “Learning From
Those `Imitative' Japanese: Edward S. Morse and the Civilization
Mikado's Empire,” Organization of American Historians, New Orleans,
April 13, 1979.
Paper: Luce Foundation
Faculty Seminar: Humanities in East Asia and Western Cultures (invited
participant), University of Southern California, September 1979 - January
1980.
Comment: “The Death of the
Soviet Dream,” OAH Convention, San Francisco, April, 1980.
Comment: “History, Biography
and Narrative,” in conference on “Forms and Functions of Narrative:
Theory and Practice.” Sponsored by Center for the Humanities, University
of Southern California, May 7-8, 1981.
Seminar: “Americans
in Meiji, Japan,” Culture Learning Institute of East-West Center, Honolulu,
Hawaii, Dec. 3 & 10, 1981.
Session chair: “The Bohemian
Tradition,” American Historical Association Convention, Los Angeles,
Dec. 29, 1981.
Seminar: “John Reed and the
American Radical Tradition,” Doshisha University (Kyoto), April 28,
1982.
Paper: “What is History
on Film,” presented to “International Understanding Through Film:
an East-West Center Conference in the Humanities,” Honolulu, November
21-23, 1982.
Panelist: “Biography -- The
Integrated Form,” Modern Language Association Convention, Los Angeles,
Dec. 27, 1982.
Panelist: “Film and
National Identity,” an East-West Center Symposium, November 13-20, 1983,
Honolulu.
Session chair: “History and
the Feature Film,” American Historical Association Convention, San
Francisco, December 30, 1983.
Session chair: “The Good
Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.” Screening
and Discussion, OAH Convention, Los Angeles, April 6, 1984.
Paper: “Real to Reel: California
History on Film,” Panelist, California Historical Society Symposium,
San Francisco, March 17, 1984.
Panelist: “Books Into
Film,” Claremont Graduate School Humanities Colloquium, Claremont,
California, April 7, 1984.
Panelist: “Film and Television
as Interpreters of History,” Conference on “The Historian and the
Moving Image,” sponsored by the American Historical Association, Historians
Film Committee, Washington, D.C., April 30-May 2, 1984.
Organizer and panelist: “Second
International Symposium on O-Yatoi,” Fukui, Japan, October 5-7, 1985.
Seminar and panelist:
“The Historian and the Filmmaker: A Workshop on History and Film,”
Neighborhood Film Project, International House of Philadelphia, November
8-9, 1985.
Seminar: “Mirror in the Shrine:
Americans in 19th Century Japan,” delivered to History, Asian and
International Studies Departments, University of Oregon, Eugene, April
8, 1986.
Paper: “History, Memory, Documentary: 'The Good Fight' Fifty Years After.” Symposium on “The Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Spanish Civil War,” Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., December 6, 1986.
Chair and panelist: “Abraham
Lincoln Brigade Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium.” Sponsored by UCLA,
Department of History, and Southern California Research Library, February
14, 1987.
Paper: “History on
Film/History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting
History on Film (or what a historian begins to think about when people
start turning his books into movies),” OAH Convention, Philadelphia,
April 3, 1987.
Paper: “History in
Images/History in Words: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of The Past,”
Western Humanities Conference, UCLA, Oct. 8, 1988.
Comment: “Writing History:
Experiments in Narrative,” AHA Convention, New York City, Dec. 28,
1990.
Panelist: “Historical Scholarship
and the Discipline of History Today,” part of Erna H. Thompson Lectureship
program, Pomona College, February 12, 1991.
Paper: “Historical
Films and Historical Understanding,” conference on How We Learn History:
The Past, the Classroom, and Society. University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. April 11-14, 1991.
Seminars: “Revisioning History:
The Challenge of the Visual Media to Our Idea of the Past.”
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa
Barbara, April 5, 6, 19, 20, 1991.
Paper: “Walker
as History,” Society for Cinema Studies, Annual meeting, May 25, 1991,
USC.
Panelist: “History as Fiction,
Film as Truth: A Cross-Disciplinary Examination.” UCLA Film and
TV Archive, April 4, 1992.
Paper: “The Dramatic
Film as (Postmodern) History.” American Studies Association
annual convention, Costa Mesa, CA., Nov. 7, 1992.
Paper: “Postmodern
History / Postmodern Film.” Society for Cinema Studies meeting, New
Orleans, Feb. 12, 1993.
Session Chair: “Documentary Practices in American Media: Representations of Ethnicity, Class, and Gender.” Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Anaheim, April 15, 1993.
Keynote speaker and panelist:
“Telling the Story: The Media, the Public, and American History.”
National Conference sponsored by the New England Committee for Humanities.
Boston, April 23-24, 1993.
Seminar: "History and
Postmodern Film." Ethnohistory Workshop. University
of Pennsylvania, Ethnohistory Program, Oct. 21, 1993.
Organizer and panelist: “Narrating
Histories: A Workshop.” Caltech, April 8-9, 1994.
Panelist: “The Humanities
and the New Media” -- workshop of the California Council for the Humanities
Conference, USC, June 9-10, 1994.
Paper: “Historia y
Cine,” delivered to Primera Jornadas de Historia y Cine, Departamento
de Historia de la Comunicacion Social, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,
Nov. 21, 1994.
Seminar: “Visions of the
Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History,” Centre
Parisien d'Etudes Critiques and L'Institut d'Histoire de Temps Present
(University of Paris) Dec. 14, 1994.
Paper: “American Encounters
in Meiji Japan,” conference, Bringing Japan to America, Phoenix Art
Museum, April 21-22, 1995.
Keynote speaker: "The
Crisis of History / The Promise of Film." Australia Conference
in History and Film. National Film Archive, Canberra, November
30-December 2, 1995.
Keynote speaker: "The
Future of the Past," Conference on "Authorizing the 20th Century,"
University of Colorado, Oct. 17-19, 1996.
Speaker: The James Beveridge
Annual Lecture: "The Crisis of History / The Promise of Film."
York University, Toronto, Oct. 28, 1996.
Speaker / Lecture Series: “The
Historical Film as History,” University of Manchester, April 12, 19,
26, 2007.
Speaker: “Looking at the
Past in a Postliterate Age - or, Is Oliver Stone a Historian,” The
British Academy, May 9, 1997.
Speaker: “Reds, John
Reed and the Russian Revolution,” St. Anthony's College, Oxford University,
May 13, 1997.
Speaker / Lecture Series: “The
Historical Film: An Introduction,” European Humanities Research Center,
Oxford University, May 14, 21, 1997.
Moderator and paper: Conference/Workshop
“Film and History: The Conflict of Interpretations,” Robert Schuman
Center, European University Institute, Florence, April 27-29, 1998.
Organizer and Keynote speaker:
Conference / Workshop - “One Film - Many Histories: Before the
Rain. European University Institute, Florence, April 22,23,
1999.
Plenary Speaker: “Film and
Historical Understanding,” Conference on History, Media, and Representation.
Graduate School of Social and Culture Studied, Kyushu University, Fukuoka,
Japan. Sept. 18, 2000
Plenary Speaker: “Learning
from the Japanese.” 21st Annual Meeting,of the Fenollosa
Society of Japan. Shiga University, Otsu, Japan. Sept. 23,
2000.
Organizer and chair: “Experiments
in Narrative.” American Historical Association convention.
Boston. (Jan. 6, 2001.)
Plenary Session Speaker:
“History and Film.” Society for Cinema Studies annual conference.
Washington DC. (May 25, 2001.)
Invited Commentator:
“Perception and Representation of Science in Literature and Fiction
Film.” Conference at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research,
Bielefeld University. June 15-16, 2002.
Keynote Speaker: “Historical
Film / Historical Thought,” 1st Africa Conference on Film
and History. University of Capetown, South Africa, July 6-8, 2002.
Panelist: "Biography on
Film." Getty Research Institute. Sept 12, 2002.
Organizer / Moderator: “Experiments
in Biography, “ Getty Research Institute, March 14, 2003.
Organizer - Moderator: “Nat
Turner: A Troublesome Property,” Getty Institute, June 4, 2003.
Invited Speaker and Writer-in-Residence:
Fairfax Country Book Fair, George Mason University, Sept. 16-23, 2003.
Speaker: “In Praise of the
Biopic: the Case of Frida.” Humanities Institute Series
on Life Stories, Scripps College, Jan. 29, 2004.
Speaker: “Inventing Historical
Truth on the Silver Screen,” Ernest C. Watson Lecture Series, California
Institute of Technology, March 3, 2004.
Lecture series / conference
devoted to “The Fictional Film as History,” Cine de Ficcion e
historia, University of Tolima, Ibague, Colombia. April 12-16,
2004.
Invited speaker: “Existe
una escritura filmica de la historia?” National University of
Colombia, Institute of Studies in Communication and Culture, April 17,
2004.
Keynote Speaker: “The Fictional
Film as History,” Coloquio Internacional: “Imagen y Ciencias Sociales:”
Repensando investigacion y sociedad in Latinoamerica, University
of Buenos Aires, April 19-21, 2004.
Lecture Series: Commemorating
10 Years of the Office of Historia, Federal University of Bahia,
Salvador, Brazil. “Representing Social Struggles in the United
States and Russia in Reds”; “Oliver Stone as Historian,” and “History
as Represented by Historians and Filmmakers,” April 28-30, 2004.
Speaker: “In Celebration
of Isaac Babel,” ALOUD, Los Angeles Central Library, June 17, 2004.
Guest Speaker: “The Filmmaker
as Historian: Oliver Stone,” Master Class for PhD candidates, Universities
of Leuven and Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, Oct. 28, 2004.
Keynote Speaker: “In Praise
of the Biopic.” Symposium on Biography on Film.
Film Museum, Amsterdam, Nov. 1, 2004.
Keynote Speaker: “The Audience
Shapes History,” 5th Biennial Jornadas de Cinema,
University of Madrid, Complutense, Nov. 12, 2004.
Speaker: “In Praise of the Biopic,” 40th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Lecture Series, University of Texas, Arlington, March 10, 2005.
Speaker: “Film and the Fiction
of Reality.” Workshop on Reenactment and the Question of Realism.
Caltech. May 9-10, 2005.
Moderator: Panel on “El Perro
Negro.” The Flaherty Seminar, an international symposium on
documentary film. Claremont College. June 15, 2005.
Panelist, “Big Social Science
History Through Documentary Film.” Social Science History Association
Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon, Nov. 4, 2005.
Speaker: "From History
to Autobiography." Center for the Study of Autobiography,
University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain, Nov. 15, 2006.
Keytnote Speaker: “Oliver
Stone: Historian of the Vietnam War,” 6th Biennial Jornadas
de Cinema, University of Madrid, Complutense, Nov. 16, 2006.
Panelist: “Film and History
Studies 2007: Overviews by Major Scholars.” American Historical
Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Jan. 7, 2007.
Invited Speaker: “Innovative
Historical Writing.” Past Tense Seminar, Huntington Library,
March 27, 2007.
Speaker: “Inventing Historical
Truth on the Silver Screen.” Big Problems Series. Franke Institute
for the Humanities, University of Chicago, May 21, 2007.
Keynote speaker: “The History
Documentary in the Vortex of Postmodernism.” Academia Film Olomouc
2008. April 17, 2008. Palecky Unversity, Olomouc, Czech
Republic.
Keynote speaker: “History
and Film,” meeting on Visual Resources and Historiography, International
Center for Japan Studies, Kyoto, Sept. 26, 2008.
Speaker: “Shooting History:
Visions of the Past,” International Studies Group, Toyo University,
Tokyo, Oct. 4, 2008.
Keynote Speaker: “What Does
the Historical Documentary Document?” International Conference: When
Clio Claims the Documentary. University of Bourdeaux, Nov. 6-8,
2008.
Host and Discussion leader:
Screening of Walker, American Historical Association meeting,
New York City, Jan 2, 2008.
Plenary Session Panel: “The
Pleasures of Imagination.” American Historical Association annual
meeting, New York City, Jan. 2, 2008. New York City.
Speaker: “Why Directors Invent
the Past to Tell the Truth,” Lecture Series of the Baron Fund for
Ethics in Education, San Diego State University, May 4, 2009.
Speaker: “Cinema and Current
History.” Faculty of Letters, Mohammed V University, Rabat,
Morocco, Nov. 11, 2009.
Speaker and Panelist: “Cinema
and the University Curricula,” and “Cinema and History,” as part
of the international film festival Encontre Mediterraneenes: Cinema
et droits de l'homme, created by the Consultative Council for Human
Rights, Rabat, Morocco, Nov. 12 and 13, 2009.
Honored Guest: History on Film
/ Film on History: A symposium with Robert Rosenstone. St. Andrew's
University, Scotland. Oct. 10, 2010.
Speaker: “The Historical
Film as History, a Field, and a Pack of Tricks We Play Upon the Dead,”
St Andrews University, Scotland, Oct 12, 2010. Aberdeen University,
Scotland, Oct. 14, 2010.
Panelist: “Making the
Familiar Strange: El Perro Negro and the Spanish Civil War,”
panel on Spanish Cinema and the Civil War, CineLit VII. Portland, OR,
Feb. 25, 2011.
UNIVERSITY / PUBLIC LECTURES: US
Agnes Scott College; University
of Akron; Art Center College of Design; University Center of Atlanta;
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Foundation (Los Angeles); Boston University:
California Polytechnic University; University of California, Los Angeles;
University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Chicago; University
of Colorado; Claremont Graduate School; East-West Center (Hawaii); Emery
University; George Mason University; George Washington University; University
of Georgia; Getty Research Institute, University of Hawaii; Honolulu
Academy of Arts; John Carroll University (Cleveland); Kenesaw Mountain
University; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles Jewish Library;
Los Angeles Public Library, Main Branch; Lihue Public Library (Hawaii);
Long Beach State University; University of Michigan; Mount St. Mary's
College; Neighborhood Film and TV Center, Philadelphia; Occidental College;
Oberlin College; Phoenix Museum of Art: Pomona College; Portland Central
Library; Redlands University; Reed College; Rutgers University; University
of Oregon: San Diego Jewish Book Festival; San Diego State University;
San Gabriel Valley Jewish Book Festival; University of North Carolina;
University of Ohio (Athens); University of Pennsylvania; Reed College;
University of Southern California.
UNIVERSITY / PUBLIC LECTURES: ABROAD
American Centers in Fukuoka,
Nagoya, Osaka, and Tokyo, Japan; University of Barcelona; University
of Buenos Aires; British Academy (London); Catholic University of Leuven
(Belgium); Centre Parisienne d'etudes critiques (France); Consultative
Council for Human Rights, Rabat, Morocco); Doshisha University (Kyoto);
Film Museum, Amsterdam (Netherlands); University of Ghent (Belgium);
European Humanities Research Center, Oxford University; European University
Institute (Florence); Fluminense Federal University, Niteroi (Brazil);
Gakshuin University, Tokyo; University of Granada (Spain); International
Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto; Kyoto University (Japan); Kyushu
University (Japan); University of Aberdeen (Scotland); University of
La Laguna (Canary Islands); University of Madrid, Complutense;
Mohamed V University, Rabat (Morocco); National Film and Sound Archive
(Australia); National University of Colombia (Bogota); St. Antony's
College, Oxford; Palacky University, Olomouc (Czech Republic);
Salvador de Bahia Federal University, Bahia, (Brazil); Shiga University
(Japan); Tolima University (Colombia); Toyo University, Tokyo; University
of Manchester (UK); University of Aberdeen (Scotland); University of
St. Andrews (Scotland); University of Paris III; University of Technology
(Sydney); York University (Toronto).
PROFESSIONAL, COMMUNITY:
James Harvey Robinson Award Committee, American Historical Association
1986-88 Eric Barnouw Award Committee, OAH Annual Award for Best Work of History
On Film, 1986-88 (Chair 1987)
1986-98: Academic Advisory Board: Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena
1987 Film and History Committee, American Historical Association
1989-93: Board of Governors, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Foundation, Venice, CA
1989-92 Academic Advisory Board, Media Alternatives Project, New York University
1995 - Academic Advisory Board: H-Film
1999 Judge, PEN West Literary Awards - Creative Non Fiction
2003 Writer in Residence (Non-fiction) - Fairfax County, VA, Book Festival
2005-6 Judge, Los Angeles Times Annual Book Prizes - Biography
2008-9 2010 Program Committee and Organizer OF AHA Film Festival, American
Historical Association Annual Meeting,
January 2010 San Diego
CALTECH
Interim Director, 1976-77, and Chairman, Governing Board of Baxter Art Gallery, 1976-81.
Curator, “In Search of Four Women/Four Cultures,” Baxter Art Gallery, Oct-Nov. 1976
Director of Fine Arts, curricular and extra-curricular, 1978-81.
Executive Officer, Division
of Humanities and Social Sciences, September, 1983-1986.
Courses:
Twentieth Century U.S.
American Intellectual History
American Radicalism
Alienation and Modern Man
The Outsider in History and Literature
Psychohistory
Japan: History and Culture
The Irrational in Modern Culture
The Tradition of Bohemia
Modernism: The Life and Death of a Culture
History on Film: Japan, Soviet Union, Germany, the United States
The Historical Film
The Modern Age: Politics and Culture
Cinema and Society
Ethnic Visions
The Science Fiction Film as History
Biography on Film
Postmodern History
Institute:
Institute Committee on Art (chair)
Curriculum Committee
Faculty Committee on Programs
Faculty Committee on Affirmative Action
Bookstore Committee (chair)
Art Program Committee
Humanities and Social Sciences Division:
Research Committee
Committee on the Freshman Year (chair)
Division Policy Committee (chair)
Humanities Seminar Committee (chair)
Dreyfuss Chair Committee
Mellon Advisory Committee (chair)
Committee on the Humanities and Social Science Requirement (chair)
Division Chairman's Advisory Committee
Chairman's Search Committee (three times)
Promotion and Tenure Review
Committee
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