Charles J. Shindo
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Charles J. Shindo is a Associate Professor of United States history at the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Dr. Shindo's education began at the University of Southern California where he took his bachelor's degree. He then continued on to California State University, Fullerton, and finally earned his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester. His dissertation, entitled Voices of the migrant : democracy and culture in the dust bowl works of John Steinbeck, John Ford, and Woody Guthrie was completed under the direction of historian Robert Westbrook in 1992.
Dr. Shindo's book, Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination challenges the common conception of the Dust Bowl migrant, arguing that a small group of artists perpetuated the stereotype of the downtrodden "Okie" to promote their own reformist agenda, when, in fact, the realities of the migrant worker was quite different.
At LSU, Dr. Shindo's course offerings center on Asian-American, U.S. Cultural, and and Post-Civil War history.
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[edit] Bibliography
- Shindo, Charles J. Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997)
- Shindo, Charles J. "Myth of the Dust Bowl," Wilson Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 4 (Autumn 2000): 25-30
[edit] Awards
- W. Turrentine Jackson Award of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (1992).
- Roselyn Boneno Award for Teaching - Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (2003)
- Caroline Bancroft Prize, Western History Department, Denver Public Library (1998)
[edit] Pedigree
[edit] Studied under
- Robert Westbrook
[edit] Students
- Courtney Patterson Carney
- Kurt Edward Kemper
- Shirley Jean Sands
- John Wyeth Scott, II
[edit] External links
- Departmental homepage [1]
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