Elaine Margaret Lewinnek
Professor of American Studies
Program Chair of
Environmental Studies
Elaine Lewinnek is an urban historian and American Studies scholar who also coordinates the Environmental Studies Program at California State University, Fullerton. She is co-author of A People’s Guide to Orange County (University of California Press, 2022) and author of The Working Man’s Reward: Chicago’s Early Suburbs and the Roots of American Sprawl (Oxford University Press, 2014), as well as the author of articles on environmental history, public memory, and suburban history. She teaches courses on California’s cultural history, the built environment, the natural environment, food, theory, public memory, and the American dream.
Contact
elewinnek@fullerton.edu
Voice: 657-278-3860
Fax: 657-278-5820
Dept: 657-278-2441
Office: GH-412
ADDRESS
Dept of American Studies, GH-313
800 N. State College Blvd
Fullerton, CA 92831
courses regularly Taught
AMST 101, Questioning America
AMST 201, Introduction to American Studies
AMST 345, The American Dream
AMST 350, Theory and Methods of American Studies
AMST 395, California's Cultural History
AMST 401T, Research Seminar in Suburban Culture
AMST 401T, Research Seminar in Stories of Los Angeles
AMST 404, Americans and Nature
AMST 416, Southern California Culture
AMST 418, Food and American Culture
AMST 444, American Placemaking
AMST 449, Frontiers and Borderlands in American Culture
AMST 488, Race, Sex, and the City
ENST 520, Research Methods in Environmental Studies
ENST 595T, Sustaining Southern California
HONR 303T, Food Studies
Internship, thesis, and independent study courses in AMST and ENST
Office Hours
Vary every semester. Email me to make an appointment.
M.A. Examination Fields
Culture and Environment
Work and Class
Race and Ethnicity
Books
Elaine Lewinnek, Gustavo Arellano, and Thuy Vo Dang, A People’s Guide to Orange County (University of California Press, 2022). Teaching resources for A People's Guide to Orange County
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Elaine Lewinnek, The Working Man's Reward: Chicago's Early Suburbs and the Roots of American Sprawl (Oxford University Press, 2014) .
BOOK CHAPTERS
Elaine Lewinnek, "Park Place Material: Privatization, Homeowners Associations, and My Dog," in Carribean Fragoza, Romeo Guzman, and Samin Joudat, ed.s, Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California (Angel City Press, 2024)
Elaine Lewinnek, "I Consider It Un-American Not to Have a Mortgage" in Peter Paik and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, ed.s, Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy (Indiana University Press, 2013).
Degrees
2005, Ph.D, Yale University
Research Areas
Urban history, including the history of suburbs in Chicago and Orange County, California history, theories of cultural studies, and public memory.
Courses Regularly Taught
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AMST 101
, Online Introduction to American Cultural Studies
- AMST 201, Introduction to American Studies
- AMST 345, The American Dream
- AMST 350, Theory and Methods of American Studies
- AMST 395, California's Cultural History
- AMST 401T, Research Seminar in Suburban Culture
- AMST 401T, Research Seminar in Stories of Los Angeles
- AMST 404, Americans and Nature
- AMST 416, Southern California Culture
- AMST 418, Food and American Culture
- AMST 444, American Placemaking
- AMST 488, Race, Sex, and the City
BOOKS
Elaine Lewinnek, Gustavo Arellano, and Thuy Vo Dang, A People’s Guide to Orange County (forthcoming from University of California Press, 2021). Website to A People's Guide to Orange County.
Elaine Lewinnek, The Working Man's Reward: Chicago's Early Suburbs and the Roots of American Sprawl (Oxford University Press, 2014)
