SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND CURRENT RESEARCH
BOOKS
American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture Co-editor
Social Change in the United States Author
"The Contemporary USA" Book Series Co-editor
San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power and Urban Development Co-author
RECENT ARTICLES
"'A Different Era': Julia Gorman Porter's San Francisco Liberalism," in THE ARGONAUT (Winter 2008)
With Mary Anne Wold, "Catholics and the Campaign for Racial Justice in San Francisco, From Pearl Harbor to Proposition 14," AMERICAN CATHOLIC STUDIES (Fall 2008).
"Faith-Based Activism in American Cities: The Case of the San Francisco Catholic Action Cadre," JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE (Summer 2008).
"For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action in Northern California During the 1930s," in Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices (Texas A & M Press, 2007).
" 'Still Potentially Dangerous in Some Quarters': Sylvester Andriano, Catholic Action, and Un-American Activities in California" in PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, May 2006.
"Andriano's Ordeal: The Story of a Catholic Attorney, a Divided City, and a Nation at War," (2007) in SAN FRANCISCO POLITICAL CULTURE
"For Both Cross and Flag": Catholic Action in Northern California during the 1930s" in Transatlantica: revue d'études américanines/american studies journal, 2006.
"The Catholic International": Mayor Joseph L. Alioto's Urban Liberalism and San Francisco Catholicism" in U.S.CATHOLIC HISTORIAN, Spring 2004.
"Humanity is One Great Family": Jews and Catholics in the San Francisco Civil Rights Campaign, 1940 -- 1960, in CALIFORNIA JEWS, 2003.
"Review Essay: Recent Histories of Race Relations in California in World War II and the Cold War," an H-Net Book Review (2005) on H-California, the Online Discussion Network for California History and Culture.
"Fallacious Assertions about
Immigrants, Religion, and Public Policy"
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO Letter
to the Editor August 24, 2007
"Beyond the Culture
Wars" SAN
FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Open Forum Op-Ed Essay
Jan. 16, 2004.
"For
Both Cross and Flag" Catholic Action, anti-Catholicism, and
National Security Politics in World War II San
Francisco (under contract
with Temple University Press)
The story of how local rivalries among Catholics, Communists, and anti-Fascist
Italian political exiles shaped the anti-subversive hearings of national
and state un-American investigation committees and an FBI investigation
that led to false accusations against a prominent Italian-American attorney who was
then expelled from coastal defense areas by the U.S. Army in 1942 -- a
cautionary "tale for our times."
“Serving God and
Country”: Catholics, Communists, and Urban Power in San Francisco,
1932-1968.
This is a book detailing the role that Catholic and Communist competition
for social, political, and cultural power played in the public life of the
second largest city in the American West from 1932, when the Catholic
Church began it’s local “Catholic Action” program and the Communist
Party sent organizers to expand the party’s influence, to the election
of Joseph L. Alioto, one of the Catholic Action stalwarts since 1936, to
the mayor’s office. The
local story is set in the context of national and international
competition between Catholics and Communists during the period.
"Citizens Outside the Government":
Chapters in the Making of Twentieth Century San Francisco
The origins and development of civic interest groups from the 1890s to the
late 20th century and their role in the making of a variety of public
policy innovations, including infrastructure development, city planning,
labor relations, racial equality in education, and equal employment
opportunity.