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Sacramento State

 

Christopher J. Castaneda

Courses | Papers and Publications | Research Projects | Education  | Vita

Contact Information
Title: Chair and Professor of History
Office
Hours:		 Monday, Tuesday and Thursday: 10 am - 11:30 am & by appointment
E-mail: cjc@csus.edu
Office
Phone:		 (916) 278-6400 (direct);  916-278-6206 (dept); 916-278-7476 (fax)
Mailing
Address:		 Sacramento State
6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6059

 

Courses Taught

Hist 164:     History of American Capitalism  

Hist 165:     American Environmental History 

Hist 203:     Public History Principles and Techniques

Hist 281:     Readings in 20th Century Business and Government Relations

Hist 281:     American Business History through Fiction

Hist 200A:   Research in 20th Century Western Environmental History

Hist 282C:   Seminar in Oral History

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Papers and Publications

“The Public and Private History of Eugenics,” (co-author) The Public Historian (Forthcoming, 2007).

Keeping the Promise: A History of the California Department of Justice (California Dept. of Justice, 2006)

“Capitalism,” History of World Trade Since 1450 (New York: MacMillan Reference USA, 2005)

"History Beneath the Surface: Natural Gas Pipelines and the National Historic Preservation Act," The Public Historian 26, no. 1 (Winter 2004), pp. 105-21.

Invisible Fuel:  Manufactured and Natural Gas in America, 1800-2000 (Twayne Publishers:  New York, 1999)

Builders: Herman and George R. Brown (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998). Co-authored with Joseph A. Pratt.

Gas Pipelines and the Emergence of America's Regulatory State: A History of Panhandle Eastern Corporation, 1928-1993 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Co-authored with Clarance M. Smith.

Regulated Enterprise: Natural Gas Pipelines and Northeastern Markets, 1938-1954 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993)

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Research Projects/Interests

Historical development of pension funds, corporate governance and shareholder activism.

Consumerism of genetics and biotechnology.

Energy production, distribution and consumption technologies and socio/cultural implications. Particular focus on the energy regulation, gas pipelines, and related environmental issues.

Environmentalism and popular and corporate responses to it.

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Education

Ph.D.        U.S. History                     University of Houston           1990                      

M.A.        Public History                   University of Houston            1986        

B.A.         English and Fine Arts        Rice University                      1981

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Last updated: 03/01/2007