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William F. Cody with Sitting Bull, Dakota Chief, ca.
1880s |
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Contact Information
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Title: |
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Co-Director, Capital Campus Oral History Program
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Office |
Tahoe 3097 |
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Office Hours: |
Tuesdays,
10:00-11:00, Wednesdays, 10:00-11:00, or by appointment |
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E-mail Address: |
ettinger@csus.edu |
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Office Telephone: |
(916) 278-6589 |
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FAX: |
(916) 278-7476 |
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Mailing Address: |
Dept. of History CSU, Sacramento
6000 J
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Sacramento, CA
95819-6059 | |
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Research Interests
Immigration history, oral history, public history, and the history of the American West
Works in Progress:
"Imaginary Lines: Border
Enforcement and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration, 1882-1930" (Unpublished book manuscript under submission).
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Chinese workers and foreman on a Union Pacific Railroad Company light car. Possibly working in Echo Canyon in Utah |
Publications
“We sometimes wonder
what they will spring on us next”:
Immigrants and Border Enforcement in the American West,
1882-1930, Western Historical Quarterly, 37 (Summer 2006).
Review of Preserving Western History, by Andrew Gulliford. The Public Historian, 28 (Fall 2006), 89-91 .
Review of Photographing Farmworkers in
California, by Richard Steven Street. Agricultural
History, 80 (Summer 2006), 380-81.
Review of Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico
Divide, by Peter Andreas.
Journal of American History,
89 (Sept. 2002), 729-30.
Tenacious Immigrants: Crossing the
Border, 1880-1930, Oscar J. Martínez,
editor. Border Heritage
Booklet Series, 2002.
“Making
History in Cuba: New
Opportunities for Collaboration and Exchange,” Organization of American Historians Newsletter, February 1998, p. 3.
Recent Professional Papers
"Desert Passages, Desert Barriers: The Sonoran Desert in the History of Undocumented Immigration," presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Western History Association, October 2005
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Bakken sod house, Milton, North Dakota, ca. 1895 |
Professional
Associations
Organization of American
Historians
Western History Association
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