History Faculty
Dr. Michael F. Magliari
California , American West, U.S. Agriculture, U.S. Political
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1992
Professor and Public History Program Coordinator
Office Phone: 530-898-6332
e-mail:
mmagliari@csuchico.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Magliari currently is conducting research on Indian slavery in California during the Gold Rush and Civil War eras.
Publications
Professor Magliari, with Michael Gillis, is the author of John Bidwell and California: The Life and Writings of a Pioneer, 1841-1900 (Arthur H. Clark Company, 2003). His articles have appeared in scholarly anthologies, as well as the Pacific Historical Review, California Territorial Quarterly, and Overland Journal. In addition to numerous entries in the American National Biography and other encyclopedias, he has published book reviews in such journals as the Journal of American History, Pacific Historical Review, Western Historical Quarterly, Ohio Valley History, California History, Agricultural History, Journal of the West, the Historian, the Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Western Legal History, and the Public Historian.
Honors and Awards
In 2005, Professor Magliari was recipient of the Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Western History Association for his article "Free Soil, Unfree Labor: Cave Johnson Couts and the Binding of Indian Workers in California, 1850-1867," Pacific Historical Review 73 (August 2004). In 1989, Magliari received the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association for his article "Populism, Steamboats, and the Octopus: Transportation Rates and Monopoly in California's Wheat Regions, 1890-1896," Pacific Historical Review 58 (November 1989). Magliari also has held research fellowships at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
Courses Taught
HIST 130: United States History
HIST 290: Historians and Historical Methodology
HIST 442: The Westward Movement
HIST 445: History of California
HIST 489: Internship in Public History
HIST 492: Archival Research Seminar
HIST 494: Introduction to Public History
HIST 630: Graduate Seminar in United States History
If you have any questions about the Department of History and its academic programs, please do not hesitate to call at (530) 898-5366.