Peter RichardsonPETER RICHARDSON is an author and lecturer in the humanities department at San Francisco State University and outgoing chair of the California Studies Association. Before that, he was the founding editorial director at PoliPointPress, which publishedtrade books on politics and current affairs; an editor at the Public Policy Institute of California, a think-tank based in San Francisco; a tenured English professor at the University of North Texas; and an acquisitions editor at Harper & Row, Publishers. He has received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, an NEH Summer Seminar fellowship at Harvard University, and various other research and teaching awards. He chaired the California Studies Association from 2007 to 2011 and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Read More Read Less