UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Over the past year, I have been working on the first two sections of a book manuscript, entitled "On the Ground in Suburbia: A Chronicle of Social and Civic Transformation in Los Angeles Since 1945," with generous support from a Haynes Foundation major research grant. The book is essentially a social history of suburban life in Los Angeles, concerned particularly with how patterns of social and civic engagement have ebbed, flowed, and transformed over the past 60 years—and how the suburban built environment factors into the story.