Mar 19, 2025 - In Conversation with Dr. Eric Avila (UCLA, History)

Join us in conversation with UCLA Professor of History and Chicana/o Studies, Dr. Eric Avila.

Dr. Avila is an urban cultural historian, studying the intersections of racial identity, urban space, and cultural representation in twentieth century America. He is the current holder of the Waldo E. Neikirk Term Chair in Undergraduate Education at UCLA. After earning his doctorate at UC Berkeley, Dr. Avila joined UCLA in 1997 where he has taught Chicano Studies and History, and holds an affiliation with the Department of Urban Planning. He is the author of Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (UC Press, 2004). In 2014, he published The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City (U. of Minnesota). For Oxford University's series, he wrote American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction (2018).

Series organizers (alphabetical) are Amber Broaden (CSUSB and CSU Dominguez Hills, Psychology), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Michael German (Brennan Center for Justice), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Dr. Jeremy Murray (CSUSB History), Matt Patino (Crafton Hills College Adjunct Faculty), Dr. Mary Texeira (CSUSB Sociology). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).