Managing Board

William Deverell

William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California with a focus on the nineteenth and twentieth century American West. He has written works on political, social, ethnic, and environmental history. He is currently at work on a book exploring the history of the post-Civil War American West; his interest in this period has to do with the ways in which the West was or was not a convalescent landscape for the wounded nation and its wounded soldiers. With David Igler of UC Irvine, he is co-editing The Blackwell Companion to California, and with Greg Hise of USC, he is co-editing The Blackwell Companion to Los Angeles. He directs the new Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West; please consult the website at www.usc.edu/icw for more information. His graduate students at USC work on a variety of topics on the history of the West, ranging from the West’s racial and ethnic history, to the rise of conservative politics in the Southwest, and the western U.S. connections to the Pacific Rim.