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Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo | Interests | Scholarship | Service
Education:
- Ph.D. Department of History, Duke University,, 1993
- M.A., Department of History, San Fracisco State University,, 1988
- B.A., Department of History, San Francisco State University, 1986
Teaching Experience:
- Professor, Department of History - Saint Mary's College of California (1993 - Present)
- CSU-Hayward (1992)
Professional Experience:
- Consultant, National Park Service - World War II Home Front National Park (2000)
- Consultant, Rosie the Riveter Memorial Project - City of Richmond (1997 - 1998)
- Research Associate - Northern California Center for Afro-American History and Life (1987 - 1988)
Award:
- Wesley Logan Prize - American Historical Association (1997)
Fellowships:
- Mellon Dissertation Fellowship - Duke University (1992)
- American Dissertation Fellowship - American Association of University Women (1991)
Grant:
- Anne Firor Scott Research Grant - Duke University (1990)
Presentations:
Selected Presentations
- Oral History in the Academy. Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen (panel or forum member)
Regional Oral History Summer Workshop
(August 2012) - "The Pleasures and Perils of Conducting Oral History Research". Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen (panel or forum member)
Western History Association
(October 2008) - "The History of African American Migrant Women During World War II". Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen (talk, speech or lecture)
Oakland Museum of California
(February 2008) - Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California, 1799-1999. Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen
Western History Association Conference
(October 1999) - Writing Oral History: Choices and Options. Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen
Oral History Association
(October 1998) - Capital Flight and Grassroots Protest in Oakland's African American Community, 1945-1996. Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen
Organization of American Historians Conference
(April 1997) - Critical Perspectives on Working People of California: Future Directions for Labor Historians. Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen
Southwest Labor Studies Conference
(February 1996) - Deindustrialization, Urban Poverty, and Community Mobilization in Oakland, California, 1945-1995. Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen
Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Conference, Maui
(August 1995) - I Always Desired Independence, Never Wealth: African American Migrant Women in the Wartime East Bay. Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen
Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference, Santa Cruz
(April 1994) - African American Migrant Women in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen
American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Conference, Los Angeles
(August 1993)
Publications:
- Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. 2009. Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture, University Press of Kansas
- Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen, Cherny, Robert and Griswold de Castillo, Richard. 2005. Contested Visions: A History of California, Houghton Mifflin
- Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. 2004. "Women Made the Community: African American Migrant Women in the East Bay", African American Migrant Women Confront the West, eds. and Taylor, Quintard and Moore, Shirley Ann, University of Oklahoma Press
- Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. "Deindustrialization, Urban Poverty and Community Mobilization in Oakland, California, 1945- 1990s." Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California, 1769-1999. Eds. de Graaf, Lawrence B. and Taylor, Quintard University of Washington Press, 2001
- Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. "New Lives in the West." Major Problems in African American History. Eds. Holt, Thomas C. and Brown, Elsa Barkley Houghton Mifflin, 2000
- Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. Abiding Courage: African American migrant Women in the East Bay Community. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,, 1996.
- Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. "African American Migrant Women in the San Francisco East Bay Area." American Labor in the Era of World War II. Eds. Miller, Sally M. and Cornford, Daniel Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995
- Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. "Conscientious Objection." Readers' Companion to American History. Eds. Foner, Eric and Garraty, John A. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991
- Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen. "Radical Conscientious Objectors of World War Two: Wartime Experience and Postwar Activism." Radical History Review 45 (1989): 5-29
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