Patrick W. Ettinger California State University, Sacramento History Department                          College of Arts and Sciences
Contact Information Classes Research Interests Publications Professional Associations Class Links: History 17b Syllabus History 17b Reading Questions	"Hetch Hetchy Valley California", by Albert Bierstadt
William F. Cody with Sitting Bull, Dakota Chief, ca. 1880s	Contact Information Title: Associate Professor Undergraduate Studies Coordinator Co-Director, Capital Campus Oral History Program Office Tahoe 3097 Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10:00-11:00, Wednesdays, 10:00-11:00, or by appointment E-mail Address: ettinger@csus.edu Office Telephone: (916) 278-6589 FAX: (916) 278-7476 Mailing Address: Department of History                              CSU, Sacramento 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6059
WPA poster, ca. 1936	Fall 2008 Classes History 17b, United States since 1877 History 203: Public History: Principles and Techniques Spring 2009 On Sabbatical Leave
	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 (Forthcoming, University of Texas Press)
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
Bakken sod house, Milton, North Dakota, ca. 1895	Professional Associations Organization of American Historians Western History Association
Mexican vaqueros from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, pictured in Brooklyn, N.Y., ca 1894