Dr. Cherstin M. Lyon
Assistant Professor
Public and Oral History Coordinator 

E-Mail: clyon@csusb.edu
Phone: (909)-537-3836
Fax: (909)-537-7645

Education

Ph.D., History, University of Arizona, 2006
M.A., History, University of Oregon, 1998
B.A., History, University of Oregon, 1995

Areas of Specialization

Citizenship, Race/Ethnicity, and the Law
U.S. West
Public/Oral History

Courses Offered

U.S. History 1877 to present
U.S. West
California History
Asian American History
American Ethnic History
Historic Preservation
Public and Oral History

Recent Publications

“Prisons and Patriots: The Tucsonian Draft Resisters and Citizenship during World War II.”  Ph.D. diss., University of Arizona, 2006

The "Tucsonians" Oral History Project Collection, 1947-2002.  Special Collections, University of Arizona, MS 390 

“The Tucsonians: Catalina Federal Honor Camp Oral History Project”  Southwest Oral History Association Newsletter, August 2001

Current Research
Interests
and Projects

Prisons and Patriots, revising dissertation manuscript for publication.

Yuriko Lily Nakai Havey: The Art of Remembering

(Collaborating as editor of autobiographical fiction and watercolors of a Nisei artist’s life and relationship with her Issei mother). 

Historic Sites Research, California State Parks, Inland Empire District.

Consultant, Topaz Museum, Delta, Utah.