Eric Avila : Associate Professor, Chicano Studies and History
contact information: 7349 Bunche , (310) 825-9106 , eavila@ucla.edu
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Fields of Study:
20th Century U.S. History; urban and cultural history; popular/mass culture; history of architecture and the built environment; race and ethnicity; Chicano Studies
Professional Experience
Eric Avila received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1997, he has taught Chicano Studies and History at U.C.L.A. and was promoted to associate professor in 2004. He is the author of Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles , published by the University of California Press in 2004. His research has won various awards and prizes, including the recent inclusion of his article, "Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir Disneyland, and the Cold War (Sub)Urban Imaginary" published in the Journal of Urban History , within a new publication by the Organization of American Historians featuring the ten best articles in American history written between the summers of 2004 and 2005. He recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, where he began research for a second book project, entitled, "The Folklore of the Freeway: A Cultural History of Highway Construction."
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Books
Avila, Eric, 2004, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles , (University of California Press).
Noriega, Chon, Avila, Eric, Sandoval, Chela, Pérez Torres, and Dávalos, Mary Karen, 2001, The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970-2000 , (Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center). |
Articles and Book chapters
Avila, Eric, 2004, "Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Film Noir, Disneyland and the Cold War (Sub)Urban Imaginary," Journal of Urban History , (Sage Publications).
Avila, Eric, 2002, "Revisiting the Chavez Ravine: Baseball, Urban Renewal and the Gendered Civic Culture of Postwar Los Angeles," in Alicia Gaspar de Alba, ed. Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture and Chicana/o Sexualities , (Palgrave Macmillian, December), pp.125-139.
Avila, Eric, 2001, "Dark City: White Flight and the Urban Science Fiction Film in Postwar America," in Daniel Bernardi, ed. Classic Whiteness: Race and the Hollywood Studio System , (University of Minnesota Press).
Avila, Eric, 1998, "The Folklore of the Freeway: Space, Identity and Culture in Postwar Los Angeles," in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies , Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring), pp. 15-31.
Courses
Chicano Studies 10A, "Introduction to Chicano Life and Cultures." ( Fall 2003 , Summer 2002 , Fall 1998 )
Chicano Studies 101, "Theoretical Approaches to Chicana/o Studies." ( Winter 2003 , Winter 2001 , Spring 1999 )
Chicano Studies 180, "City and Community: A History of Chicano Los Angeles, Contact to 1900." ( Spring 2003 , Fall 2000 , Fall 1997 )
Chicano Studies M183/ History M164, "History of Los Angeles." ( Summer 2003 , Spring 2003 , Summer 2002 , Winter 2002 , Summer 1999 )
Chicano Studies M182/ History M151, "Understanding Whiteness in American History and Culture." ( Winter 2004 , Fall 2002 , Spring 2002 , Spring 1999 , Winter 1998 )
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