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The Los Angeles City Historical
Society
presents
The Conference of California
Historical Societies
Annual
Meeting
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Anna Sklar,
a native of The Bronx, New York,
grew up in Los Angeles and
received her Bachelor and
Masters degrees in history from
UCLA. She is the author of
Runaway Wives, an examination of
one aspect of the women’s
movement published in 1976, and
has been a reporter for NPR and
KCET-TV, a contributor to the
Los Angeles Times and a variety
of other publications. She
served as the public information
director for many departments
within the City of Los Angeles
including the Public Library,
Cultural Affairs, and Public
Works. Ms. Sklar is currently a
free-lance writer.
Drew Talley
is Registrar at the California
African American Museum. He
received his Bachelor of Art
degree in Art History from
California State University, Los
Angeles and a Masters of Liberal
Studies in Museum Studies from
the University of Oklahoma. Mr.
Talley is a member of Phi Kappa
Phi and Golden Key national
honor societies. He has
presented papers on such topics
as art disasters, moving
collections, and management of
museum collections at numerous
conferences including the
American Association of Museums
and also created a database for
the CAAM collection using
Microsoft Information Access.
Christopher Jimenez y
West
is History Curator of the
California African American
Museum. He serves on the
editorial board of the journal
The Public Historian (University
of California Press) and is
Co-Chair of the Academic
Advisory Board of the Los
Angeles City Human Relations
Commission. His doctoral
dissertation (USC, 2008)
explored the social and
political dimensions of post
World War II Los Angeles African
American communities. Dr.
Jimenez y West has co-curated
several exhibitions on African
American Angelenos and
coordinates several oral history
projects that document the
African American experience in
California.
Merry Ovnick
teaches urban, cultural, and Los
Angeles history at California
State University, Northridge.
She is the editor of the
Southern California Quarterly
and the author of Los Angeles:
The End of the Rainbow (1994).
Dr. Ovnick is also president of
the Southern California Chapter
of the Society of Architectural
Historians. Her doctoral
dissertation (UCLA, 2000)
explored the intersection
between Progressive-Era
political reform and the
aesthetic Arts & Crafts Movement
in Los Angeles.
Questions? Call Ann Shea,
562-408-6959, or email her at
ashea@caamuseum.org
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