Shana Bernstein Assistant Professor of History MA, PhD, Stanford University BA, University of California, Berkeley Location: MBH 204 Phone: 512-863-1428 History Department Home Page

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD Southwestern: 2004-present, Assistant Professor of History. Dr. Bernstein is a historian of modern America, specializing in civil rights, social reform, the West, comparative race and ethnicity, urban history and immigration. Dr. Bernstein previously taught at Stanford University, where she received a University teaching award, and at Northwestern University, where she was an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Latino Studies.   RESEARCH AREAS Dr. Bernstein's current research focuses on multiracial civil rights coalition building in Los Angeles from the 1930s through the 1950s.   REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS Her book in progress, Building Bridges in a Divided World: Interracial Civil Rights Cooperation in World War II and Cold War Los Angeles, examines how international circumstances facilitated the emergence of a multiracial moderate civil rights agenda with lasting influence. She is revising an article from this research, "Cold Warriors of a Different Stripe: Multiracial Civil Rights in Early Cold War Los Angeles," for publication. Dr. Bernstein has received funding for this project from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Historical Society of Southern California, the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, the Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.   MORE INFORMATION Dr. Bernstein has presented her research-in-progress at various conferences, including the Organization of American Historians, the Urban History Association, the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, the Association for Jewish Studies, and the Western Association of Women's Historians. Current classes at Southwestern University: Race Relations in 20th Century America, Topics in Immigration History, the American West, the United States until 1865, and the United States since 1865.   CONTACT Shana Bernstein Department of History Southwestern University P.O. Box 770 Georgetown, TX 78627