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Peter Chesney

Department of History of Art & Architecture

peter.chesney@vanderbilt.edu

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Education

  • 2021 PhD, History, University of California, Los Angeles
  • 2008 BA, History, Vassar College

Professional appointments

  • 2023-2026 Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
  • 2023 Visiting Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

In Progress

  • Drive Time: A Sensory History of the Car Culture from 1945 to 1990 in Los Angeles

Journals

Other Media

Teaching

Vanderbilt University

  • A History of Western Urbanism
  • Los Angeles Architecture and Urbanism

Pepperdine University

  • A History of American Peoples
  • US Social History

UCLA

  • Writing seminar, “Sensory History: Touch”
  • Writing seminar, “Urban Legends: Los Angeles”
  • Writing seminar, “California Technology & Culture”

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