New Works in the Field: The Grapes of Conquest

Name: New Works in the Field: The Grapes of Conquest | The Huntington
Start: Thu, Nov 16 2023
Location: The Huntington

Event

Julia Ornelas-Higdon and William Deverell discuss how the birth of the wine industry is critical to understanding conquest, the construction of race and citizenship, and the emergence of regional agribusiness.

Lectures

Julia Ornelas-Higdon, assistant professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands, joins William Deverell, director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West (ICW), discuss the birth of the wine industry and it's critical role in understanding conquest, the construction of race and citizenship, and the emergence of regional agribusiness.

This webinar event is part of ICW's New Works in the Field series.

Julia Ornelas-Higdon, assistant professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands, specializes in the history of California and the West. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, agricultural, and labor histories.

William Deverell is an American historian with a focus on the nineteenth and twentieth century American West. Deverell has written works on political, social, ethnic, and environmental history. He is the founding director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.