Conference Keynote
Dr. Lydia R. Otero
Friday, April 25, 2025
@noon -- lunch included with registration!
Author of the award-winning La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwestern City (2010) and two memoirs: In the Shadows of the Freeway: Growing Up Brown & Queer (2019) and L.A. Interchanges: A Brown & Queer Memoir (2023). Dr. Otero is Emeritus Associate Professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona. Their scholarship examines urban redevelopment and contested landscapes, focusing on how history has been used to legitimize power and white dominance. Their memoirs merge personal experience with historical archives.
See Dr. Otero’s website for more information on their work.
Conference Sponsorship
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The University of California Press
Ideas with impact. The University of California Press publishes the Pacific Historical Review and California History.
Recent Award-Winning Articles by WAWH Members
"California and the 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic,"
Diane M. T. North
California History (2020) 97 (3): 3–36
*2021 WAWH Judith Lee Ridge Prize
""Nothing Less Than Justice": Race, Sexuality, and
Representation at the 1977 California International
Stephanie Narrow, Haleigh Marcello, and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
California History (2023) 100 (3): 57–85
*2023 California History Richard J. Orsi “Best Article Prize”
“Niños por la causa: Child Activists and the United Farm Worker Movement, 1965-1975,”
Jennifer Robin Terry
Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (2): 227–259
*2024 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize
*2024 CCWH Carol Gold Article Award