William Deverell is director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and professor of history at the University of Southern California. He has written widely on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of California and the far West. His recent publications include Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004) and the coedited volume, Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2004). Deverell is editor of the Blackwell Companion to the American West (2004) and coeditor of the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to the History of California and the Blackwell Companion to the History of Los Angeles.

Lecture topics:

• California History
• Western History
• History of Los Angeles
• The West and the Civil War
• Western Environmental History

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