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History

Stephen Bohigian, PhD

Lecturer


Bohegian

Office: North Gym 141F

 

Email: stephenbohigian@csufresno.edu

 

Office Phone:  559-278-2153

 

Education:

Ph.D. - University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2019)
MA - California State University, Fresno, (2014)
BA - California State University, Fresno (2010)

Fall 2024

 
Course Days/Times
HIST 100W - Intro to Historical Research & Writing TTH 9:30 - 10:45 am
HIST 101 - Women in History MWF 1:00 - 1:50 pm
HIST 101 - Women in History MWF 2:00 - 2:50 pm
HIST 101 - Women in History M 6:00 - 8:50 pm
HIST 179T - Race and Resistance in Modern Urban America TTH 11:00 - 12:15 pm

Spring 2025

 
Course Days/Times
HIST 101 - Women in History TTH 9:30 - 10:45 am
HIST 101 - Women in History MWF 2:00 - 2:50 pm
HIST 198 - Crafting History MWF 12:00 - 12:50 pm

  • Policing and Crime
  • Mass Incarceration
  • Urban History
  • Race and Ethnicity

Articles and Book Chapters:

“‘Not so Much Orwellian as Kafkaesque’: The War on Crime, Information Sharing Systems, and the Limits of Criminal Justice Modernization and Surveillance in Los Angeles County,” Journal of Urban History 48, no. 2 (2022): 381-398.

Book Reviews:

Review of DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools, by Max Felker-Kantor, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (forthcoming 2025)

Review of Man with the Killer Smile: The Life and Crimes of a Serial Mass Murderer, by Mitchel P. Roth, New Mexico Historical Review (forthcoming 2024)

Review of Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras, by Bryce Clayton Newell, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (September 2022)

Review of America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s, by Elizabeth Hinton, in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (2021)

Review of The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War, by Michael S. Sherry, in Punishment & Society (2021)

Undergraduate:

  • U.S. History from 1877
  • Historical Research and Writing
  • Women in History
  • Race and Resistance in Modern Urban America
  • Race, Policing, and Incarceration in America
  • California History

Graduate:

  • Introduction to Graduate Research and Historiography I & II

His current project examines LAPD surveillance in Black South Central Los Angeles in the second half of the twentieth century.