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Institute for the Study of the American West
Stephen Aron PhD, Executive Director, Institute for the Study of the American West.
The Institute consists of three departments:
Library and Research Services includes the Autry Library and Braun Research Library and provides researchers with access to the marvelous collections of the Autry National Center.
Publications and Scholarship edits the books produced by the Autry National Center, as well as our new magazine, Convergence. This department also develops links between the Autry and academia, as exemplified by the presence of Professor Virginia Scharff, who holds our Women of the West Chair.
Programs (links to our calendar) assembles the astonishing variety of lectures, workshops, symposia, plays, concerts, film series, artist
demonstrations, and family festivals that augment the exhibitions and galleries of the Museum of the American West and the Southwest Museum of the American Indian.
Western History Workshops (links to upcoming Western History Workshops).
Together, the three departments make the Institute a unique entity that stimulates exciting scholarship and disseminates it to a broad audience.
Stephen Aron
Executive Director
Institute for the Study of the American West
Upcoming Lectures
Caughey Foundation Lecture:
Citizens, Non-Citizens, and the Poverty of the Current Immigration Debate
Saturday, March 8, 2008
3pm, Wells Fargo Theater
Professor David Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego
Reception follows lecture
UC San Diego professor David G. Gutiérrez brings a historical perspective to current immigration controversies, spotlighting the role of non-citizens in the ongoing debate.
The lecture, which will be followed by a reception, is made possible by support from the John and LaRee Caughey Foundation.
Horace Goldsmith Foundation Lecture:
Violence, Justice and the U.S.-Mexican War
Saturday, April 12, 2008
3pm, Wells Fargo Theater
Professor Daniel Walker Howe, University of California, Los Angeles, and Oxford University
Special lecture presented by professor Daniel Walker Howe, University of California, Los Angeles, and made possible by the Horace Goldsmith Foundation and Oxford University. Howe will sign copies of his recent book, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815—1848. Reception follows.
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