Kyle Livie

A California native, Kyle holds a Ph.D. in history from UCLA and has worked with high school and college students for over fifteen years, teaching a range of courses from introductory classes in United States history and composition, to advanced research methods at a variety of institutions including UC Berkeley, UCLA, and California State University, Monterey Bay. Kyle’s research currently looks at community development and cultural formation in American metropolitan spaces in the early twentieth century, with special interest paid to how marginal groups shape shared identity, collective memory, and economic production. Kyle is at work on a book manuscript charting the development of rural community spaces in California and their contribution to cultural and economic change before World War II. Outside of historical scholarship, Kyle’s most recent work has also focused on curriculum development in the digital humanities, pioneering approaches to classroom learning in American politics and cultural studies that involving new media, hybrid and online classroom models, and tangible connections to work in public history.