Catherine Gudis
Catherine Gudis is Associate Professor of History and Director of Public History at University of California, Riverside, where she holds a Pollitt Endowed Term Chair for Interdisciplinary Research and Learning. She also serves as scholar-in-residence at L.A. Poverty Department’s Skid Row History Museum & Archive. The author of Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape, her public humanities projects include Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice, A People’s History of the Inland Empire, and Play the L.A. River. Her current research is towards a book, Framing LA: Preservation and the Performance of Place.
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From California’s citrus heyday in the 1800s to Cold War military expansion, the Inland Empire has been a center of shipping and distribution. Today’s warehouses boom, linked to ongoing environmental degradation and job insecurity, has its roots in the science of war and in long histories of land and labor exploitation.