Patrick W Ettinger CV - Capital Campus Oral History Program

Patrick W. Ettinger
Department of History
California State University
Sacramento, CA 95819-6059
(916) 278-6589

EDUCATION

Indiana University

Ph.D. — History — July 2000
Dissertation: “Imaginary Lines: Border Enforcement and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration, 1882-1930”
Major field: United States since 1865
Minor fields: Folklore, Latin American History

University of Notre Dame

B.A. — Program of Liberal Studies — May 1986

CURRENT POSITION

Assistant Professor, History Department, California State University, Sacramento (2000-present)
Associated Faculty, Public History Program, California State University, Sacramento

ORAL HISTORY EXPERIENCE

State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives (2001-)
Special Consultant/Oral Historian

Indiana University Oral History Center (1992-1995)
Project Coordinator/Oral Historian

Assisted in grant writing and project design and conducted oral history interviews for an oral history project on changing medical practices among physicians in twentieth-century Indiana.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Mexican-American history

U.S.-Mexico border and the borderlands Southwest

Twentieth-century American West