Zevi Gutfreund
Associate Professor
Secondary Education Advisor
231D Himes Hall
578-4501
zgutfreund@lsu.edu
Courses Taught
History and the Social Sciences I, II, and III; Seminar in History and the Social Sciences; U.S. History Since 1865; History of the U.S. West; U.S. Immigration History.
Current Research Interests
My current project investigates the persistent racial segregation of education in New Orleans after the violent protests of 1960. I am also studying efforts to integrate competitive sports in Louisiana after the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Interested in Directing Theses On
U.S. Immigration; U.S. West; History of Education
Education
B.A. Harvard University (2001); M.A. UCLA (2008); Ph.D. UCLA (2013)
Awards and Honors: John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2011-12)
UCLA McWilliams/Caughey Research Fellowship (2010-11)
UCLA Appleby/McWilliams Research Fellowship (2009-10)
Notable Articles
鈥淚mmigrant Education and Race: Alternative Approaches to 鈥楢mericanization鈥� in Los Angeles, 1910 鈥� 1940,鈥� History of Education Quarterly 57.1 (February 2017), 1-38.
鈥淪tanding Up to Sugar Cubes: The Contest over Ethnic Identity in California鈥檚 Fourth-Grade Mission Curriculum,鈥� Southern California Quarterly 92.2 (2010), 161-197.
鈥淟anguage, Citizenship, and the 鈥楳odel Minority Myth鈥�: The Political Conservatism of Nisei Language Scholars in California,鈥� Southern California Quarterly 101.2 (Summer 2019), 205-241.
Books
Co-Author: Home Lands, How Women Made the West: A Teaching Unit, Grade Range 4-12 (Los Angeles: The National Center for History in the Schools with the Autry National Center of the American West, 2010).
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).