Sarah Schrank

Sarah Schrank, Ph.D.

Dr. Schrank

Title:
Professor
 
Credentials:
Ph.D., History, University of California, San Diego
M.A., History, University of California, San Diego
B.A. (Honors), History, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
Baccalauréat Français, Lycée Marcelin Berthelot, Saint Maur des Fossés, France, 1990.
 
Contact Information:
Sarah.Schrank@csulb.edu
562 985-2293
Office: FO2-204
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd., MS 1601
Long Beach, CA 90840-1601
 

Education

Ph.D., History, University of California, San Diego, 2002. M.A., History, University of California, San Diego, 1997. B.A. (Honors), History, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, 1994. Baccalauréat Français, Lycée Marcelin Berthelot, Saint Maur des Fossés, France, 1990.

 

Selected Publications

Books:

Free and Natural: Nudity and the American Cult of the Body (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) with the following links:

http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15974.html

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/land-free

https://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2019/08/getting-naked-outside-to-feel-good-inside-nude-summer-travel.html

Urban History Goes to the Movies: The City in the American Popular Imagination, New York and Oxford: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, under contract.

Art and the City:  Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009 (released in paperback, 2011).

Edited Volumes:

Co-Editor (with Didem Ekici, University of Nottingham), Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body, New York and Oxford: Routledge (Ashgate Studies in Architecture series), 2017.

https://www.routledge.com/authors/i14871-sarah-schrank

Co-Editor (with Sally Webster, CUNY Graduate Center), Public Art Dialogue: The Mural Issue 4:1 (April 2014).

Articles and Essays:

“The Late Capitalist Physique,” Modern American History (Cambridge University Press), Vol 1 (November 2018), 431-435.

“Naked Yoga and the Sexualization of Asana,” Yoga, the Body and Embodied Social Change: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis, ed. Melanie Klein, Beth Berila, and Chelsea Jackson. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016, 155-174.

“American Body: Fitness and the Commodification of Exercise,” American Studies 54:2 (Summer 2015), 23-32.

“American Yoga: The Shaping of Modern Body Culture in the United States,” American Studies 53:1 (March 2014), 169-181.

“Under a Golden Sun: The Cultural Politics and Industrial Development of Southern California,” Journal of Urban History 39:1 (January 2013), 130-138.

“Naked Houses: The Architecture of Nudism and the Rethinking of the American Suburbs,” Journal of Urban History 38:4 (July 2012), 635-661. Nominated by the Journal of Urban History for the Urban History Association’s 2012 Best Article Award.

“Sunbathing in Suburbia: Health, Fashion, and the Built Environment,” Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture, edited by Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini. Montreal, Quebec: Canadian Centre for Architecture and Lars Müller Publishers, 2012: 364-83.

“Public Art at the Global Crossroads: The Politics of Place in 1930s Los Angeles,” Journal of Social History 44, no. 2 (Winter 2010): 435-57.

“Modern Urban Planning and the Civic Imagination: Historiographical Perspectives on Los Angeles,” Journal of Planning History 7, no. 3 (August 2008): 239-51.

Nuestro Pueblo: The Spatial and Cultural Politics of Los Angeles’ Watts Towers,” The Spaces of the Modern City:  Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life, ed. Gyan Prakash and Kevin Kruse, Princeton University Press, 2008: 275-309.

“The Art of the City: Modernism, Municipal Censorship, and the Emergence of Los Angeles’ Postwar Art Scene,” American Quarterly 56, no. 3 (September 2004): 663-91.

“Picturing the Watts Towers: The Art and Politics of an Urban Landmark,” Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, ed. Stephanie Barron, Ilene Fort, and Sheri Bernstein, University of California Press, 2000: 372-86.

 

Fellowships

President’s Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement, California State University, Long Beach, 2018

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University Research Fellowship, 2011.

John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Fellow of the Huntington Library, 2008-2009.

John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Summer Research Grant, 2005.

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Fellow, Princeton University, 2004-2005.