Catherine Gudis
Historian, All Sites
Cathy Gudis is professor of history and director of public history at University of California, Riverside, where she holds a Pollitt Chair for Interdisciplinary Research and Learning. She is Scholar-in-Residence at LA Poverty Department's Skid Row History Museum & Archive, and has published articles and advocacy papers about Skid Row housing and community. For nearly 20 years she has worked on public history projects in the I.E., including preservation studies on Eastside, queer history, and multiracial community settlement, and digital projects on logistics. Her collaboratively curated exhibitions include Geographies of Detention, States of Incarceration, and Climates of Equality. Cathy directs the Relevancy & History Project partnership with California Citrus State Historic Park, is a contributor to Bridges That Carried Us Over Project, and co-directs the collaborative A People's History of the Inland Empire and its Live from the Frontline.