Judson A. Grenier, Ph.D.

Title: Professor of History, Emeritus

Department: History

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Books and Chapters

Member, Board of Editors, The Development of Los Angeles City Government, 1850-2000, (2 vols) (Los Angeles City Historical Society, 2007).
Editor (with Margaret Blue), Roberts, M. & Garvin, H. Glenn M. Anderson: conscience of California, (Los Angeles: California State University Dominguez Hills Foundation, 2001)
Golden Odyssey: John Stroud Houston, California’s First Controller and the Origins of State Government, (Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1999).
Editor, of Mason, W., Early Dominguez families and settlement of the Rancho San Pedro, (Carson, Calif : California State University, Dominguez Hills and the Carson Companies, c1991).
California Legacy: the Watson-Dominguez Family. (Los Angeles: Watson Land Company, 1987).
The Rainbow Years: the First Quarter-Century of California State University Dominguez Hills. (California State University, Dominguez Hills Foundation, 1986)
Editor, revised. ed. of Robert C. Gillingham, Rancho San Pedro. (Los Angeles: Dominguez Family Companies, 1983)
Editor, Heilbron, L. From the beginning: commencement addresses and selected papers (Long Beach: The California State University
“Muckraking the Muckrakers: Upton Sinclair and His Peers,” in Reform & Reformers in the Progressive Era. (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983)
(With Donald Gerth) A History of the California State University and Colleges. (Long Beach: California State University, 1981).
Editor and co-author, A Guide to Historic Places in Los Angeles County. (Dubuque: Kendall Hunt, 1978, rev. 1983)
Editor, of McCallister, L., The Waterfront of Manhattan Beach, (City of Manhattan Beach Historical Committee, 1978).
The Streets of Manhattan: transportation at the beach, (City of Manhattan Beach Historical Committee, 1977).
A Capsule History of Manhattan Beach, 1912-1976, (City of Manhattan Beach Historical Committee, 1976)
Editor, of Dow, F., Manhattan Beach yesterdays: personal recollections, (City of Manhattan Beach Historical Committee, 1976)
Editor, of Pyatt M., et al, The Women who fashioned a community: the Neptunian Club of Manhattan Beach, (City of Manhattan Beach Historical Committee, 1974)
Co-author (with Delmatier, R., et al), The Rumble of California Politics, 1848-1970, (New York: Wiley, 1970)
Editor, with Phillips, D.G., The Treason of the Senate, (Chicago : Quadrangle Books, 1964)
Prairie Winds and Sea Winds: poems. (Pasadena, Calif.: Pasadena City College, 1958)

Selected Articles

“CSU Dominguez Hills Sustains a Rich Historic Heritage,” in 2007 Commencement Program; reprint, Inside the EFA (Spring, 2007)
“Reminiscences of the Early Faculty,” Inside Dominguez Hills (May, 2005)
“Officialdom: California State Government, 1849-1879,” California History Sesquicentennial Issue (No. 3/4, 2003)
"Sources for Local History," The Primary Source (Summer, 1996)
“Copperhead Assemblyman in Civil War California,” The Californians Magazine (Vol. 12, No. 5. 1995).
“Growing Together for a Century: Title Insurance & Trust Company and Southern California,” Southern California Quarterly (Vol. LXXV, No. 3/4. Fall/Winter 1993). Also printed under separate cover.
“The Donahoe Higher Education Act, 30 Years After,” California History, (Vol. LXIX, No. 1. Spring 1990)
"The Watson Land Company: A 75th Anniversary Salute," Southern California Quarterly (Vol. LXIX, No. 2. Summer 1987)
"Oral History Can Keep Family Past Alive," Associated Press (printed in newspapers nationwide, September 1985)
"Addenda to J.N. Bowman's 'History of the Provincial Archives of California'", Southern California Quarterly (Vol LXVI, No. 3. Fall 1984)
"Upton Sinclair: The Road to California," Southern California Quarterly (Vol. LVI, No. 4. Winter 1974)
(With Glenn Dumke) Harry Chandler, Dictionary of American Biography, Sup. III (New York: charles Scribner's Sons, 1973).
"Upton Sinclair and the Press: The Brass Check Reconsidered," Journalism Quarterly (Vol. 49, No. 3. Autumn 1972)
"Upton Sinclair: A Remembrance," California Historical Society Quarterly, (Vol. 48, No. 2. June, 1969)
"The Muckrakers: Roughriding on Newsmen, TR Names Expose Period," Publishers Auxiliary, American National Series (June, 1965)
"A Minnesota Railroad Man in the Far East, 1917-1918," Minnesota History, (Vol. 38, No. 7. September 1963)
"Muckraking and the Muckrakers: an Historical Definition," Journalism Quarterly (Vol. 37, No. 4. Autumn 1960)
"The Camera Wins Its Spurs," CTA Journal (February 1958)
Photo Editor, "Robert Gordon Sproul," California Monthly (Vol. LXVI, No. 7, March 1956)
"Evansville," Occident: University of California Literary Magazine (Fall 1955)
Book reviews in California History, Pacific Historical Review, Southern California Quarterly, Journalism Quarterly & other magazines.

Published Oral Histories

(1991) “Reminiscences of an Art Historian: an Oral History of Constance Perkins,” Huntington Library.
CSU Oral History Project (1989) Lyman Glenny: state government and the state colleges before the master plan, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1989)Robert Wert: creating the Master Plan; an independent college perspective, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1988) Albert Ruffo: the Board of Trustees in the start-up years, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1988) Ambrose Nichols: from San Jose to Sonoma State--an academic odyssey, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1988) Dean McHenry: the University of California and the Master Plan, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1988) Donald Leiffer: executive officer of the California State Colleges, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1988) Dorothy M. Knoell: State Colleges and the Department of Education, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1988) Hector Lee: developing state college policies in the 1950's, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1988) James Enochs: an insider's view of the Chancellor's Office, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1988) John M. Pfau: creating new institutions, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1988)Leo F. Cain: from San Francisco to Dominguez, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1988) Leonard Mathy: developing a faculty role in academic governance, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1988) Ralph Prator: a new college in a new system, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1988) Robert E. Kennedy: Cal Poly in a time of change , Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1988) Theodore Meriam: development of the Board of Trustees, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1981, 1988) Edmund G. "Pat" Brown: the Master Plan and state educational policy, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1981, 1987) Glenn S. Dumke: creating the California State Colleges, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
CSU Oral History Project (1986) Judson Grenier: Recollections of the Academic Senate -- the Early Years, interview by Anne Frank, Board of Trustees of the California State University.
(1981) Reminiscences of the Dominguez Ranch and the Carson family: an oral history by John Victor Carson, Dominguez Archives Committee, California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Honors & Awards

(2005) Fellows Award (medal), the Historical Society of Southern California
(2004) Distinguished Alumnus, Univ.of Minnesota Daily Alumni Association
(1994) Carl Wheat Award for Best Article in Southern Calif. Quarterly
(1991) Newberry Library (Chicago) Fellowship
(1991) Pflueger Award, Outstanding Local History (California Legacy)
(1986) CSUDH Distinguished Community Service Award
(1985) Huntington-Haynes Fellowship
(1984) National Endowment for the Humanities Travel Fellowship
(1973) Gibson Distinguished Teaching Award (the first), CSUDH
(1966) Outstanding Teacher Award, UCLA Student Association

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