WORKSHOP CO-DIRECTORS
Mark Brilliant, Associate Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley
Brilliant is the author of The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941–1978 (2010), which won the American Society for Legal History’s Cromwell Book Prize. He is currently researching two new books, the first on public school financing inequality and political and legal challenges to it and the second on Proposition 13, which reconfigured school funding in California. Dr. Brilliant, in addition to being an award winning professor of modern American history, was a former high school teacher in Brooklyn, New York. Visit Professor Brilliant's History Department page to learn more.
Rachel B. Reinhard, Director, UCBHSSP
Reinhard holds a Ph.D. in United States History and directs the UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project where she works with history and social studies teachers on implementing discipline-specific pedagogy in K-12 classrooms. She regularly leads workshops and designs multi-day learning opportunities for teachers. From 2005-2008, Dr. Reinhard held a faculty position at SUNY Cortland, where she taught in the secondary social studies program.
SPEAKERS (Summer 2019)
Donna Graves, Local Historian
Graves has over twenty years of experience developing public history projects. Graves served as Project Director for the City of Richmond’s Rosie the Riveter Memorial and worked with the City and National Park Service to initiate, plan, and implement the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park. She is Project Director for Preserving California’s Japantowns, a statewide effort to identify and document what remains of the many pre-WWII communities that were destroyed by internment. She was recently named to the advisory committee that is planning for the creation of a permanent memorial and visitor’s center to commemorate the disaster at Port Chicago. Learn more about Graves' work here.
Stephanie Jones-Rogers, Assistant Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley
Professor Jones-Rogers' research explores the intersection of race and gender in US History. Her talk will explore the significance of race and gender to wartime labor. Learn more about Professor Jones-Rogers here.
Karen Korematsu, Co-Founder, Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education, San Francisco, California
Karen Korematsu is the daughter of Fred Korematsu who led the federal legal challenge against Japanese internment. Through her work with the Korematsu Institute, she educates the community and students about the history of Japanese Americans, her father, and social justice. Explore the resources of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute here
WORKSHOP HOSTS
The University of California, Berkeley History Department is ranked as one of the top history programs in the nation. This summer workshop benefits from the exemplary faculty and graduate students affiliated with the department and other departments on campus.
UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project is a member site of a statewide coalition of the California Subject Matter Projects, which bridge the state’s universities with K-12 classrooms. UCBHSSP works directly with history and social studies teachers on implementing discipline specific pedagogy and expanding historical thinking in K-12 classrooms. This pedagogical expertise and long history working with K-12 teachers on content development and classroom practice, coupled with the resources of the department of history, its academic faculty, and the university’s resources, present a unique opportunity for classroom teachers from across the country.