Charles J. Shindo

Luke V. Guarisco Professor of American History
250H Himes Hall
578-4478
cshindo@lsu.edu

 

Courses Taught

U.S. History Since 1865; America in the Teens and Twenties; Age of FDR; History of Popular Culture of America; Asian American History; Undergraduate and Graduate Seminars in History

 

Current Research Interests

Science Fiction and American History

 

Interested in Directing Theses On

20th century U.S. Cultural History

 

Education

B.A. University of Southern California, 1984; M.A. Cal State Fullerton, 1987; Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1992

 

Awards and Honors

2003 Roselyn Boneno Award for Teaching; 1998 Caroline Bancroft Prize, Western History Department, Denver Public Library

 

Notable Articles

“Myth of the Dust Bowl,” Wilson Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 4 (Autumn 2000): 25-30

 

Books

Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination (University Press of Kansas, 1997)

1927 and the Rise of Modern America (University Press of Kansas, 2010)