Dr. Michael Gonzalez Graduate Program Director, Associate Professor PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1993 Research and teaching specialties: 19th- and 20th-century US history, California history

Selected publication:

• "Welcome to the Mexican Paradise": Exploring the Origins of Mexican Culture in Los Angeles, 1821-1846 (University of New Mexico Press, 2005)
• "'The Child of the Wilderness Weeps for the Father of Our Country':   The Indian and the Politics of Church and State in Provincial California," In Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush, eds. Ramon A. Gutierrez and Richard J. Orsi (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)

Office:   Institute for Peace and Justice (IPJ) 269
Phone: (619) 260-4043
Email: michaelg@sandiego.edu