Dr. Elliott Barkan
Professor Emeritus

E-mail:  ebarkan@csusb.edu
Phone: (909) 537-5525 
Fax: (909) 537-7645

Links to Dr. Barkan's Class Web Sites

Education

B.A., 1962, Queens College, CUNY, N.Y.
M.A., 1963, Harvard University 
Ph.D., 1969, Harvard University

Areas of Specialization

Immigration
Naturalization
20th Century Comparative Ethnic Studies 
Public Opinion on immigration and race relations issues

Courses Offered

American Civilization
The American Colonies
The Evolution of American Democracy
Chicano History
Ethnic Minorities in American History
Ethnic Minorities in the American Southwest
Asian-American Experience
Roots of Modern Racism, 1860-1930

Publications

A Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America's Multicultural Heritage, edited by Elliott R. Barkan (Greenwood Press, 1999)

Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Issues: A Documentary History, edited by Michael LeMay and Elliott R. Barkan (Greenwood Press, 1999) 

Making It in America: A Sourcebook on Eminent Ethnic Americans, edited by Elliott R. Barkan (ABC-Clio, 2001) 

From All Points, Due West: A History of Immigration into the American West in the Twentieth Century, forthcoming, (Indiana University Press, 2007)

"Turning Turner on His Head? The Significance of Immigration in the History of the American West," New Mexico Historical Review, 77.1 (Winter 2002): 57-88.

"Return of the Nativists? California Public Opinion and Immigration in the 1980s and 1990s," presented at the European Social Science History Association meeting, Amsterdam 2000, revised for publication, Social Science History, 27.2 (Summer 2003): 229-283.

"American in the Hand, Homeland in the Heart: Transnational and Translocal Immigrant Experiences in the American West," Western Historical Quarterly 35.3 (Autumn 2004): 331-354. Awarded Best Article in Oral History by the Oral History Association, 2006.

"Where Have All the Norwegians Gone? Norwegian Americans in the Pacific Northwest (Fading Migrations but Enduring Memories)" Forthcoming, NAHA Conference.

Book Reviews in Ethnic and Racial Studies; Political Science Quarterly;  American Studies Journal;   Journal of American History; Journal of American Ethnic History, Reviews in American History 

Current Research
Interests and Projects

Book Review Editor, Journal of American Ethnic History, 1985-2002.

President, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, 2003-2006. 

Series Editor, ABC-Clio Books, Ethnic Diversity in Nations of the World (five books currently published) 

Working on volume 2 of From All Points Due West, 1952-2005 and a second edition of And Still They Come.

Invited keynote speaker at the Nordic American Studies Association, Voss, Norway, June 2006. "Where Have All the Norwegians Gone? Norwegian Americans in the Pacific Northwest (Fading Migrspeaking on the Scandinavian experience in the Pacific Northwest.