EDUCATION
1987-92 PhD, History, University of Cambridge, UK
1985-87 MBA, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP), France
1979-84 BA, History, with Distinction, University of California, Berkeley
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2011- Professor, Department of History and Political Science, ULV
2004-11 Associate Professor, Department of History and Political Science, ULV (2007 Tenure)
2001-04 Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, ULV
1994-2001 Adjunct Professor, Department of History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CSU Pomona)
1992 Visiting Professor, Department of History, Boston College
FELLOWSHIPS
2022 Visiting Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, UK (May-July 2022)
2021-22 Fulbright Senior Fellow in Cultural Studies, IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna, Austria (Sept. 2021-Feb. 2022)
2013 Fulbright Senior Professor in American Culture, Leiden University, The Netherlands
2009 Haynes Fellow, The Huntington Library
2001 Research Fellow, The Huntington Library
1995 Fellow, Institut für Europäische Geschichte (Institute for European History), Mainz, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2019 Inside the Caltech Community, by Laura Marcus, ed. Kenneth Marcus and Rudolph Marcus, CPC-West, Collegiate Press
2016 Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism, Cambridge University Press (Paperback edition, 2018)
2004 Musical Metropolis: Los Angeles and the Creation of a Music Culture, 1880-1940, Palgrave Macmillan
2000 Politics of Power: Elites of an Early Modern State in Germany, Institute for European History Series, vol. 177, Philipp von Zabern Verlag
Refereed journal articles
forthcoming “Listening to Human Rights: Class Conflict in Hanns Eisler’s Deutsche Sinfonie,” German History
forthcoming “The Central Avenue Borderscape: Racial and Musical Borders in Los Angeles in the Era of Jim Crow,” Pacific Historical Review
forthcoming “Teaching History with the Arts: An Experimental Study,” The History Teacher (to be published in August 2022)
2018 “‘Every Evening at 8’: The Rise of the Promenade Concerts in Late-Nineteenth Century Boston,” American Music 36, no. 2: 194-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.36.2.0194
2018 “Modjeska, Paderewski, and the California Landscape,” Southern California Quarterly 100, no. 1: 69-104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2018.100.1.69
2015 “Mexican Folk Music and Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Southern California: The Ramona Pageant and the Mexican Players,” Journal of the Society for American Music 9, no. 1: 26-60. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1752196314000534
2014 “Dance Moves: An African-American Ballet Company in Postwar Los Angeles,” Pacific Historical Review 83, no. 3: 487-527. DOI: 10.1525/phr.2014.83.3.487.
2014 “The International Relations of Thomas Mann in Early Cold War Germany,” in Who is a Diplomat? Diplomatic Entrepreneurs in the Global Age, ed. Giles Scott-Smith, special issue, New Global Studies 8, no. 1: 49-64. DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2014-007.
2013 “Recent Approaches to Cultural History: American Photography, Film, and Music,” History Compass 11, no. 3: 247-57. DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12040.
2011 “Heimat and Hybridity: Arnold Schoenberg and Southern California Modernism,” Forum for Inter-American Research 4, no. 1: 54-71. Online at http://www.interamerica.de/volume-4-1/marcus/
2011 “Inside and Outside Chinatown: Chinese Elites in Exclusion Era California,” with Yong Chen, Pacific Historical Review 80, no. 3: 369-400. DOI: 10.1525/phr.2011.80.3.369.
2009 “California History and the Performing Arts,” in Teaching California History: A Conversation, ed. Nicolas G. Rosenthal and Allison Varzally, special issue, California History 87, no. 1: 60. DOI: 10.2307/40495251.
2009 “Creating a Musical Community: The Founding of the Hollywood Bowl,” in “Urban Community in the West: Los Angeles,” special issue, Journal of the West 48, no. 2: 68-75.
2008 “Baseball Stadiums and American Audiences,” Telos 143: 165-70. http://journal.telospress.com/content/2008/143/165.abstract
2007 “Music and American Culture,” History Compass 5, no. 4: 412-30. DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00445.x.
2007 “The Shifting Fortunes of War: Patronage of the Württemberg Hofkapelle during the Thirty Years War,” German History 25, no. 1: 1-21. DOI: 10.1093/0266355407071987.
2007 “Judaism Revisited: Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles,” Southern California Quarterly 89, no. 3: 307-25. DOI: 10.2307/41172377.
2007 “The Seriousness of Comedy: The Benefit Concerts of Jack Benny and Danny Kaye,” American Music 25, no. 2: 137-68. DOI: 10.2307/40071653.
2006 “Living the Los Angeles Renaissance: A Tale of Two Black Composers,” The Journal of African American History 91, no. 1: 55-72. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20064047.
2005 “‘A New Expression for a New People’: Race and Ballet in Los Angeles, 1946-56,” Journal of the West 44, no. 2: 24-33.
2002 “The Start of Something Big: Theater Music in Los Angeles, 1880-1900,” California History 81, no. 1: 24-39. DOI: 10.2307/25177663.
2001 “Hymnody and Hymnals in Basel, 1526-1606,” The Sixteenth Century Journal 32, no. 3: 723-41. DOI: 10.2307/2671509.
1999 “The Hollywood Bowl and the Democratization of Music,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 12: 31-38. Online at http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/160642
1996 “Centered on Teaching: Using Multimedia Materials in the Classroom,” World History Bulletin 12, no. 3 (1996): i-iv. Online at http://www.thewha.org/bulletins/spring_1996.pdf
1995 “Music Patronage of the Württemberg Hofkapelle, c. 1500-1650,” German History 13, no. 2 (1995): 151-62. DOI: 10.1093/gh/13.2.151. Online at http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/content/13/2/151.extract
1993 “A Question of Corruption: The Case of Martin Nuttel, 1543–44,” German History 11, no. 2: 127-40. DOI: 10.1093/gh/11.2.127. Online at http://gh.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/2/127.extract
Contributions to books and encyclopedias
2020 “Artist,” in A Day in the Life of an American Worker (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO), vol. 2: 506-08.
2013 “Comedy and Satire in American Music, 1945 to the Present,” in Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped our Culture, ed. Jacqueline Edmonson, 4 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood), vol. 1: 252-56.
2011 “Immigration and Modernism: Arnold Schoenberg and the Los Angeles Émigrés,” in Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art: Performing Migration, ed. Rocío G. Davis, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, and Johanna C. Kardux (New York: Routledge): 183-98
2011 “Los Angeles, 1952-1989,” in Cities in American Political History, ed. Richardson Dilworth (Washington, DC: CQ Press): 571-77.
2011 “Los Angeles, 1989-2010,” in Cities in American Political History, ed. Richardson Dilworth (Washington, DC: CQ Press): 639-44.
2003 “Duchy of Württemberg,” in Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, ed. Jonathan Dewald, 6 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons), vol. 6: 249-51. Online at http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3404901210.html
2000 “A Veritable Break with the Past: Sacred Music in Fifteenth-Century Basel,” in Medieval Germany: Associations and Delineations, ed. Nancy van Deusen, Claremont Cultural Studies, 4 (Ottawa: Institute of Medieval Music): 163-72
Edited journal special issue
2009 “Urban Community in the West: Los Angeles,” Journal of the West 48, no. 2
Exhibitions, reports, and public essays
2011 “Modernism Is As Modernism Does,” notes for exhibition, Memory Space, Tavo Olmos, Irene Carlson Gallery, ULV, October-December.
2005 “Arnold Schoenberg’s American Compositions,” notes and music samples for exhibition, Paradise Found? LA’s European Jewish Émigrés of the 1930s and 40s, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, February-May.
2001 Popularity of the Pops: The Los Angeles Scene (CSU Pomona).
1998 “Die Frage nach der Identität,” Jüdische Rundschau [Basel, Switzerland] (September 3): 25.
1997 “Drei grosse jüdische Komponisten aus der Goldenen Ära der Filmmusik,” Jüdische Rundschau [Basel, Switzerland] (September 4): 15
Multimedia
2021 “WWII Japanese-American Internment Camps,” Podcast series, Intervals, Organization of American Historians (posted July 7, 2021), online at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intervals/id1561104555
2020 Toccata and Fugue for Our Time by Kenneth Marcus, composer and organist; online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iFBfBKh6Ck
2019 Songs to Study By, Vol. I and II. Kenneth Marcus, piano, guitar and vocals. All compositions by Kenneth Marcus.
2017 The War. Rap by Kenneth Marcus, composer and vocals; online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_D_K6oWdyI&feature=youtu.be
2012 The Ramona Pageant: Myth, History and Community. DVD. Kenneth Marcus, historical consultant, commentator, and associate producer. Short documentary on the oldest, continuously-run historical pageant drama in American history. Wilkman Productions, Inc..
2009 Fantasias: Schubert, Schumann, Schönberg. CD. Kenneth Marcus, liner notes. Oleg Kagan, violin. Edward Auer, Vassily Lobanov, Vladimir Skanavi, piano. LiveClassics, Munich, Germany. LC 05954.
2009 Crown City Band: Live at the Coffee Gallery Backstage. CD. Kenneth Marcus, guitar and lead vocals; Dalton Perry, harmonica and vocals; and others. Rock and blues. Works by Kenneth Marcus, Willie Dixon, Arthur Crudup, and others. Recorded live, Altadena, California, May 3,.
2007 Music of California and the West by the Arias Troubadours. CD. Kenneth Marcus, historical consultant, co-producer, and liner notes. Alfonso Arias and José Arias, violins; Fred Herrera, bass, guitarrón; Carlos Corral, accordion; Joe Bruley, guitar, mandolin; Armando Corral, guitar; Carolina Russek Corral, castanets; Ernie Hernandez and Cecilia Camancho, vocals. Hispanic folk and dance music of the 19th and 20th century Southwest. Fred Herrera Music, BMI.
2006 The Arias Troubadours: A Musical Dynasty. DVD. Kenneth Marcus, historical consultant and co-producer. Short documentary of early 20th century Mexican American guitarist, singer and bandleader José Arias, Sr. and the Arias Troubadours. Alfonso Arias and José Arias, Jr., violins; Fred Herrera, bass, guitarrón; Carlos Corral, accordion; Joe Bruley, guitar, mandolin. Wilkman Productions, Inc.
2000 Crown City Trio: Live at Caltech. CD. Kenneth Marcus, guitar and lead vocals; Dalton Perry, harmonica and vocals; Andrew Patscheck, bass and vocals. Ragtime, blues and rock. Works by Scott Joplin, Arthur Crudup, Elmore James, Willie Dixon, Chuck Berry, and others. Recorded live, Pasadena, California, June 30.
2000 Colorado Boulevard. CD. Kenneth Marcus, guitar and lead vocals; Dalton Perry, harmonica and vocals; Andrew Patscheck, bass and vocals. Blues, rock, and folk music. Works by Kenneth Marcus, Arthur Crudup, Kris Kristofferson, and others. Recorded in Pasadena, California, August.
1999 Greek Orthodox Choral Setting of the Liturgy of St. John the Chrysostom. CD. Kenneth Marcus, organ, with the Choir of Saint Anthony Greek Orthodox Church and soloist Nick Zarkantzas, dir. Dimitrios Antsos. Recorded live, Pasadena, California, October 10 and November 7.
1999 Some American Music. CD. Kenneth Marcus, piano, guitar, and vocals. Ragtime, jazz, spiritual, and folk music. Works by Scott Joplin, George Gershwin, Woody Guthrie, Kenneth Marcus, and others.
BOOK REVIEWS
forthcoming Marina Peterson, Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021), to appear in Western Historical Quarterly 54, no. 1 (2023).
2018 Neil Campbell, ed., Under the Western Sky: Essays on the Fiction and Music of Willy Vlautin (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018) in Nevada State Historical Quarterly 61, no. 1-4: 108-09.
2016 Diane Pecknold, ed., Hidden in the Mix: The African American Presence in Country Music (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013) in The Journal of African American History 101, no. 3: 377-79.
2016 Peter Gough, Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2015) in American Historical Review 121, no. 2: 588-89.
2015 Sherrie Tucker, Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014) in Southern California Quarterly 97, no. 2: 225-28. DOI: 10.1525/scq.2015.97.2.225
2014 Jim Tranquada and John King, The ‘Ukelele: A History (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i, 2012), in Pacific Historical Review 83, no. 1: 166-68.
2013 Thy Phu, Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012), in Pacific Historical Review 82, no. 3: 452-54.
2011 Mary Kay Duggan, 19th-Century California Sheet Music Website, online at http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~mkduggan/neh.html, in The Journal of American History 98, no. 1: 308. DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jar137
2011 Marina Peterson, Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), in Southern California Quarterly 93, no. 3: 361-63.
2010 Craig H. Russell, From Serra to Sancho: Music and Pageantry in the California Missions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), in Southern California Quarterly 92, no. 4: 425-47.
2009 Catherine Parsons Smith, Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), in American Studies 50, no. 1 and 2: 183-84.
2009 Minna Yang, California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical Crossroads (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008), in Pacific Historical Review 78, no. 3: 443-44.
2009 Anthony Macías, Mexican American Mojo: Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008), in American Historical Review 114, no. 5: 1486-87.
2007 Beverly Soll, I Dream a World: The Operas of William Grant Still (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2005), in The Journal of African American History 92, no. 2: 305-07.
2006 Karen Sotiropoulos, Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006), in American Historical Review 111, no. 5: 1531-32
2005 Josh Sides, L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), in Journal of the West 44, no. 1: 107-08.
2003 Eva Shaw, The Sun Never Sets: The Influence of the British on Early Southern California (Irvine, CA: Dickens Press, 2001), in Southern California Quarterly 85, no. 2: 234-35.
1999 Paul Westermeyer, Te Deum: The Church and Music (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998), in Sixteenth Century Journal 30, no. 3: 843-44.
1996 David Lasocki with Roger Prior, The Bassanos: Venetian Musicians and Instrument Makers in England, 1531-1665 (Aldershot, UK: Scolar Press, 1995) in Sixteenth Century Journal 27, no. 2: 599.
1995 Jeffery T. Kite-Powell, ed., A Performer’s Guide to Renaissance Music (New York: Schirmer Books, 1994), in Sixteenth Century Journal 26, no. 2: 421.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
2018- Autoctonia: Revista, Ciencías Sociales e Historia, Chile
2009-17 History Compass, Section Editor, 20th-21st Century America
LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
Invited presentations
2021 “Composing about Concentration Camps: Hanns Eisler’s German Symphony,” IFK (International Research Center for Cultural Studies), Vienna, Austria, December 6
2020 “Who’s Who in Music and Dance in California,” Zamorano Club, Pasadena, CA, August 26
2019 “Growing Up With Mom and Dad,” book presentation of Inside the Caltech Community by Laura Marcus, Pasadena Breakfast Forum, California Institute of Technology, December 4
2018 “Teaching History with the Arts,” Bernardo O’Higgins University, Santiago, Chile, October 4
2018 “Schoenberg and Hollywood,” Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades, CA, May 26, https://www.vatmh.org/en/eventreader/20180526_schoenberg_eng.html
2018 “Musical Metropolis: Los Angeles and the Creation of a Music Culture, 1880-1940,” Westerners International, San Dimas, CA, March 7
2017 “Musical Metropolis: Los Angeles and the Creation of a Music Culture, 1880-1940,” At Home Series, Pasadena Museum of History, October 3
2017 “Dance Like You Mean It,” Pasadena Breakfast Forum, California Institute of Technology, May 3
2016 “Arnold Schoenberg und das modernistische Hollywood” [given in German], Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies, University of Lucerne, Switzerland, November 17
2016 “Schoenberg in Exile: Judaism and Musical Modernism,” Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Bern, Switzerland, November 15
2016 “African American Ballet in Postwar Los Angeles,” Distinguished Lecture Series, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany, November 11
2016 “Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism,” Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, November 10
2015 “The Central Avenue Renaissance and the Harlem Renaissance,” Los Angeles Poverty Department, Skid Row History Museum and Archive, Los Angeles, May 2
2013 “City and Culture: The Rise of Music in Los Angeles, 1880-1940,” Huntington Westerners, Pasadena, CA, October 19
2013 “Schoenberg and Stravinsky: Exiles and the Politics of Culture in Mid-Twentieth Century Southern California,” Fulbright Lecture, Leiden University, The Netherlands, April 25
2011 “Hollywood Bowl: Past and Present,” Teaching American History Group, Clovis Unified School District, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, December 4
2011 “Paderewski, Modjeska, and the California Environment,” keynote speaker, Paderewski Festival, Paso Robles, CA, November 12
2011 ”Cultural History and the Founding of the Hollywood Bowl,” Glendora Historical Society, Glendora, CA, September 26
2010 “Race and Ballet in Postwar Los Angeles,” Westerners International, Alhambra, CA, August 11
2009 “Modernism in Los Angeles: Arnold Schoenberg and the Cultural Émigrés,” Bergische University Wuppertal, Germany, July 21
2009 “The Legacy of the Charles Lummis Wax Cylinder Recordings,” El Alisal, Lummis House, Los Angeles, June 27
2008 “Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles: Modernism and the Jewish Dilemma,” Western History Workshop, Autry Museum of the American West, November 18
2008 “Modernism in the Academy: Arnold Schoenberg at UCLA,” Biennial Conference, Jewish History Association, Hebrew Union College/USC, Los Angeles, June 3
2008 “The Seriousness of Comedy: The Benefit Concerts of Jack Benny and Danny Kaye,” The Paley Center for Media, Beverly Hills, California, April 12
2008 “Race and Ballet in Postwar Los Angeles,” Dreams Fulfilled Series on African American Arts and Culture, The Huntington Library, March 19
2006 “Exil im Paradies? Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles” [given in German], Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, June 29
2006 “Music in Early Los Angeles,” The Huguenot Society of California, Pasadena, March 22
2005 “Italian Involvement in the Music Traditions of Early Los Angeles,” American Italian Historical Association, Los Angeles, November 6
2005 ”Music and the Development of Los Angeles,” for lecture series, La Verne Scholars in the Classroom, Hillcrest, La Verne, November 1, 8, and 15
2005 “Music in Los Angeles,” Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors Society), joint chapter meeting, Claremont McKenna College and Scripps College, April 25
2003 “A Phoenix of the Arts: The First Negro Classic Ballet of Los Angeles,” Brown Bag Lunch Series, The Huntington Library, May 9
2003 “A Phoenix of the Arts: The First Negro Classic Ballet of Los Angeles,” Los Angeles City Historical Society, April 13
2001 “The Use of Music in Teaching History,” Faculty Life Stories Committee, CSU Pomona, February
2000 “The Silk Trade in Basel,” co-presentation with Christine Ersig-Marcus, The Huguenot Society of California, Los Angeles, May 27
1999 “Orchestral Music in Animation,” Thursday Forum, Claremont Graduate University, November 18
1998 “The Hollywood Bowl and American Music,” Faculty Forum, CSU Pomona, May 9
1996 “The Essence of Simplicity: Hymnody and Hymnals in Basel,” The Huguenot Society of California, Los Angeles, May
1994 “A Veritable Break with the Past: Sacred Music in Fifteenth-Century Basel,” Symposium on Medieval Germany, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, March
Conference presentations
2021 “Composing for Concentration Camps: The Case of Hanns Eisler’s German Symphony,” Joint Meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California Chapters of the American Musicological Society, May 8
2018 “Central Avenue Renaissance: Community and the Arts in Postwar Los Angeles,” Pacific Coast Branch Meeting, American Historical Association, Santa Clara University, California, August 4
2018 “Central Avenue Conflicts: Family, Kinship, and the Arts in Postwar Los Angeles,” Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA) Conference, University of Graz, Austria, June 2
2018 “Midcentury Modern: Politics and Culture in Postwar Los Angeles,” panelist, “Community Building and Cultural Movements in Postwar Southern California,” HSSC Conference on “From the Cold War to the Space Race: Science, Technology and Society in Southern California,” CSU Pomona, February 10
2017 “African-American Ballet and Protest in Postwar Los Angeles,” panelist, “A New Era: Racial and Defense Culture in Mid-Twentieth Century Southern California,” Pacific Coast Branch Meeting, American Historical Association, California State University, Northridge, August 5
2017 “Arnold Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism,” panelist, “Modernism Revisited,” Society for American Music, 43rd Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 23
2016 “‘Every Evening at 8’: The Promenade Concerts and Cultural Hierarchy in Late-Nineteenth Century Boston,” Southwest Chapter Meeting, American Musicological Society, Pomona College, February 20
2014 “Arnold Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism,” Southwest Chapter Meeting, American Musicological Society, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 15
2013 “The International Relations of Thomas Mann in Early Cold War Germany,” panelist, “Reframing Diplomacy: New Diplomatic History in the Benelux and Beyond,” Leiden University, The Netherlands, September 6
2012 “New Jews: Exiles, Heimat and the Holocaust in Musical Perspective,” panelist, “Leaving Homeland in Search of Home: Movements, Migrants and Music in California,” Western History Association, Denver, CO, October 6
2011 “New Jews: Exiles and the Holocaust in Musical Perspective,” panelist, “Listening to California: Two Centuries of Musical Imports,” Pacific Coast Branch Meeting, American Historical Association, Seattle, WA, August 12
2011 “Arnold Schoenberg and Late Modernism in Los Angeles,” panelist, “Music and the Transformation of Los Angeles,” HSSC Conference on “Los Angeles Renaissance: Redefining the Soul of a City,” Autry Museum of the American West, April 2
2011 “The Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41,” panelist, “The Music of Arnold Schoenberg: A Discussion and Concert,” Pomona College, Claremont, CA, February 13
2011 “Brecht, Schoenberg, and Eisler,” panelist, “Brecht in Exile,” Modern Languages Association, Los Angeles, CA, January 9
2010 “Finding Heimat in Los Angeles: Arnold Schoenberg at UCLA during the War Years,” German Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October 10
2010 “Troubles in Paradise: Culture and Solidarity among the Los Angeles Exiles,” Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA) Conference, University of Pécs, Hungary, June 17
2010 “Teaching the World History Survey with Music,” American Historical Association, San Diego, January
2009 “Modernism in Los Angeles: Arnold Schoenberg and the Cultural Émigrés,” German Studies Association, Washington, DC, October 11
2009 “Modernism in Los Angeles: The Cultural Émigrés and Transnationalism,” Pacific Coast Branch Meeting, American Historical Association, Albuquerque, NM, August 8
2009 “Modernism in Los Angeles: Arnold Schoenberg and the Cultural Émigrés,” Conference on Multiculturalism and Beyond, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Germany, July 23
2008 “Immigration and Modernism: Arnold Schoenberg and the Los Angeles Emigrés,” panelist, “Expatriation and Modernism/ Postmodernism,” Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA) Conference, Leiden University, The Netherlands, June 27
2008 “Exile in Paradise? Modernism and the Émigré Circles of Los Angeles,” Los Angeles History Research Group, The Huntington Library, February 9
2007 “Portraying the Chinese: Interracial Interaction in 19th Century Los Angeles,” Engendering Diversity and Community Conference, ULV, March 23
2006 “Portraying the Chinese: Ethnicity and Representation in the West,” panelist, Pacific Coast Branch Meeting, American Historical Association, Stanford University, August 4
2006 “Ethnic Identity on Stage: The Cases of the Mexican Players and the Ramona Pageant,” American Historical Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 8
2005 “Ethnic Identity in Drama: The Cases of the Ramona Pageant and the Mission Play,” Western History Association Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, October 16
2005 “Ethnic Identity on Stage: The Art of the Mexican Players and the Ramona Pageant,” Pacific Coast Branch Meeting, American Historical Association, Corvallis, OR, August 5
2005 “Ethnic Identity on Stage: The Mexican Players and the Ramona Pageant,” Southwest Chapter Meeting, American Musicological Society, Azusa Pacific University, February 26
2002 “Creating a Musical Community: The Founding of the Hollywood Bowl,” panelist and conference organizer, “Community and Culture in Los Angeles,” ULV, October 5
2001 “Dance Orchestras in Black and White,” Southwest Chapter Meeting, American Musicological Society, California State University, Los Angeles, April 28
1999 “Music in Late-Nineteenth Century Los Angeles,” Los Angeles History Research Group, The Huntington Library, September 11
1999 “Jack Benny, Johnny Carson, and Classical Music,” Southwest Chapter Meeting, American Musicological Society, University of California, San Diego, February 27
1998 “The Rise of the Boston Pops,” Southwest Chapter Meeting, American Musicological Society, University of California, Riverside, February 21
1996 “Using Multimedia Materials in the Classroom,” International World History Association Conference, CSU Pomona, June 21
1995 “The Simplicity of Hymnody in Basel, 1540-1606,” Southwest Chapter Meeting, American Musicological Society, University of California, Santa Barbara, November
1995 “Music and Text of the Lobwasser Psalter of Basel, 1606,” panelist, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Francisco, October
1994 “Continuity and Discontinuity in Basel’s Sacred Music, 1550-1600,” panelist, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 28
1993 “Music and the Hofkapelle of Württemberg, ca. 1500 – 1650,” Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Flagstaff, AZ, April
1992 “Elites and the Reformation in Württemberg,” panelist, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, October
Session chair and comment
2012 “Art,” HSSC Conference on “Latino Los Angeles,” Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, April 21
2011 “Music and the Transformation of Los Angeles,” HSSC Conference on “Los Angeles Renaissance: Redefining the Soul of a City,” Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, April 2
2010 “Exiles and Émigrés, Spies and Scholars,” German Studies Association, Oakland, CA, October 10
2010 “Teaching the Survey: Integrated Approaches to World, U.S., and California History,” American Historical Association, San Diego, January 7
2008 “California Beat: The Music of the Golden State,” 20th Annual Envisioning California Conference, “California Imagined: The Arts of the Golden State,” California State University, Sacramento, September 19
2008 “Expatriation and Modernism/Postmodernism,” Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA) Conference, Leiden University, The Netherlands, June 27
2006 “Popular Culture before World War II,” Pacific Coast Branch Meeting, American Historical Association, Stanford University, August 4
2006 “Crossing the Line: Ethnicity and Music in Twentieth-Century America,” American Historical Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 8
2004 “Bringing Folks Together: Musical Intersections of Race and Class,” American Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, November 11
Guest lectures at faculty forums and seminars
2021 “WWII Japanese-American Internment Camps and Human Rights,” invited speaker, La Verne Academy Lecture, ULV, March 2
2019 “William the Conqueror and the Battle of Hastings,” College of Law, ULV, October 14
2018 “Teaching History with the Arts,” La Verne Academy Lecture, ULV, September 25
2017 “Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism” La Verne Academy Lecture, ULV, February 21
2016 “Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism,” English Seminar, “Literature and Other Media: What Are They Made of?,” Prof. Philipp Schweighauser, University of Basel, Switzerland, November 16, 2016
2014 “Migration and Modernism in Los Angeles, 1900-1960,” La Verne Academy Lecture, ULV, May 5
2012 “Documenting Pageantry: An Analysis of Three Historical Dramas in Modern America,” Faculty Research Lecture, ULV, November 5
2010 “Wagner, Schoenberg, and American Culture,” Faculty Research Lecture and LA Ring Festival, ULV, February 1
2008 ”Arnold Schoenberg and the Crisis of Modernism,” Faculty Research Lecture, ULV, October 21
1995 “Die Reformation in Deutschland” [given in German], German Seminar, California State University, Long Beach, March
1993 “Sacred Music and the Reformation in Basel,” Seminar on Comparative Religion, Professor Mark Edwards, Jr., Harvard University, February
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED/CO-ORGANIZED
2022 “Exile, Modernism, and Hollywood,” Conference co-organizer and presenter, Exilarte Center and Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (mdw), Vienna, Austria, June 11-12
2018 “From the Cold War to the Space Race: Science, Technology, and Society in Southern California,” Historical Society of Southern California (HSSC), California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, February 10
2017 “World War II and the Homefront in Southern California,” HSSC, ULV, January 21
2016 “Journalism in Southern California,” Conference co-organizer and moderator, HSSC, Occidental College, Los Angeles, April 16
2015 “Religion and Culture in the Colonial Southwest,” Conference co-organizer and moderator, HSSC, Occidental College, April 4
2012 “Latino Los Angeles,” Conference organizer and moderator, HSSC, Autry Museum of the American West, April 21
2011 “Los Angeles Renaissance: Redefining the Soul of a City,” Conference co-organizer, HSSC, Autry Museum of the American West, April 2
2010 “Immigration and Acculturation,” Conference organizer and moderator, International Studies Institute, ULV, April 28
2008 “Pathways to Peace: The Roadblocks of World Hunger and Genocide,” Conference organizer and moderator, International Studies Institute, ULV, March 5
2005 “Community and Religion in Los Angeles,” Conference organizer and moderator, International Studies Institute, ULV, October 8
2004 “Environment and Community in Los Angeles,” Conference organizer and moderator, International Studies Institute, ULV, May 1
2002 “Community and Culture in Los Angeles,” Conference organizer and moderator, International Studies Institute, ULV, October 5
INTERVIEWS ON MULTIMEDIA
2022 “We are Resistance + Music,” Podcast series, Thoughtlines, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (posted July 30, 2022), online at https://soundcloud.com/thoughtlines/series-2-ep-1-kenneth-marcus
2016 Author Interview Series, ULV, Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism; online at https://vimeo.com/162035059
2016 AuthorHub, Cambridge University Press, Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism; online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_u0-3dLsCw
2016 University of La Verne Oral History Archive with Al Clark, ULV, December
2014 Stage Raw with Mindy Farabee, Los Angeles, Online at http://stageraw.com/2014/05/08/vaulted-ambitions-volume-2/
2013 Mare with Vincent Bongers, Leiden University, The Netherlands, April
2013 News Brief with Linda van Putten, Leiden University, The Netherlands, March. Online at http://hum.leiden.edu/north-american-studies/news-north-american-studies/marcus.html
2011 Campus Times with Amanda Nieto, ULV, November
2009 The Southern Californian with Carole Dougherty, Los Angeles, Fall/Winter
2009 Campus Times with Julissa Cardenas, ULV, October
2006 Broadcast of The Arias Troubadours: A Musical Dynasty, in Life & Times with Val Zavala, KCET Public Television, May and August
2005 Campus Times with Tracy Spicer, ULV, May
2005 Life & Times with Vickie Curry, on camera interview, KCET Public Television, Pasadena, CA April
2005 AirTalk with Larry Mantle, NPR radio, KPCC, Pasadena, CA, February
2004 Campus Times with Beatriz Mendoza, ULV, May
2003 Inland Valley Voice with Joanna Corman, La Verne, April
2001 Campus Times with Tim Tevault, ULV, November
GRANTS AND FUNDED RESEARCH
2021 Department Research Grant, ULV Arts and Sciences
2020 Department Research Grant, ULV Arts and Sciences
2018-19 “Pedagogy, History, and the Arts,” La Verne Academy Grant, ULV
2017-18 “Teaching History with the Arts,” La Verne Academy Grant, ULV
2017 Faculty Development Grant, ULV Arts and Sciences
2016 Faculty Development Grant, ULV Arts and Sciences
2015-16 “Dark Tourism and Interment Camps in Europe and the U.S..” Faculty Research Grant, ULV
2014 “Schoenberg and Hollywood Modernism,” Faculty Research Grant, ULV
2013 Faculty Development Grant, ULV Arts and Sciences
2012 Faculty Development Grant, ULV Arts and Sciences
2011-12 “Documenting Pageantry: An Analysis of Three Historical Dramas in Modern America,” Faculty Research Grant, ULV
2010 Faculty Development Grant, ULV Arts and Sciences
2009-10 “Arnold Schoenberg and the Academy: Modernism at UCLA and USC,” Faculty Research Grant, ULV
2008 Faculty Development Grants, ULV Arts and Sciences
2007-08 “Exile in Paradise? Arnold Schoenberg and the Los Angeles Émigrés,” Faculty Research Grant, ULV
2007 NEH Summer Seminar, “German Exile Culture in California,” Professor Russell Berman, Stanford University
2007 Faculty Development Grants, ULV Arts and Sciences
2006-07 “Crossing Boundaries: Music and Immigration in Los Angeles,” Faculty Research Grant, ULV
2006 John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation /HSSC Research Grant
2006 Faculty Development Grant, ULV Arts and Sciences
2005 NEH Summer Institute, “The Redemptive West,” Professor William Deverell, The Huntington Library
2005 Faculty Development Grants, ULV Arts and Sciences
2005 “Schoenberg and His Students: Europe and the LA School,” Summer Research Grant, ULV Arts and Sciences
2004 “Schoenberg in LA,” Faculty Research Grant, ULV Arts and Sciences
2004 Faculty Development Grants, ULV Arts and Sciences
2004 John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation /HSSC Research Grant
2004 “Course Transformation,” James Irvine Foundation Grant
2003 Faculty Development Grant, ULV Arts and Sciences
2002 “Course Transformation,” James Irvine Foundation Grant
2002 Faculty Development Grant, ULV Arts and Sciences
2001 Merit Award, CSU Pomona
2000 President’s Travel Award, CSU Pomona
2000 Research, Scholarship and Creativity Award, CSU Pomona
2000 John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation/Historical Society of Southern California (HSSC) Research Grant
2000 Merit Award, CSU Pomona
1999 Sinfonia Foundation Grant
1998 Merit Award, CSU Pomona
1997 Merit Award, CSU Pomona
1991 Clare College Research Award
1990 American Friends of Cambridge University Research Award
1990 Clare College Travel Grant
1989-90 American Friends of Cambridge University Scholarship
1989 Prince Consort and Thirwell Fund Award
1988-89 German Historical Institute Grant
1988-89 American Friends of Cambridge University Travel Grants
1987-91 Cambridge University and UK Government Overseas Research Student Awards
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2013-19 Chair, International Studies, ULV
2014-17 President, Historical Society of Southern California (HSSC)
2010-14 President, Historical Society of Southern California (HSSC)
2002-13 Director, International Studies Institute, ULV
COMMITTEE SERVICE
ULV
2017- Member, Library Committee
2016- Member, University Archives Committee
2013- Member, International Studies Institute Committee
2009-15 Member, University Technology Committee
2007-10 Chair, Undergraduate Academic Policies Committee
2006- Founding Member, La Verne Academy
2005-09 Member, Honors Committee
2004-08 Member, Academic Funding Committee
2005-08 Co-Founder and Director, Grant Office, College of Arts and Sciences
2004-05 Dean’s Governance Committee
2003-04 Chair, Library Archives Taskforce
HONORS AND AWARDS
2019 Appreciation of Service, Board Member, Historical Society of Southern California
2017 Historical Society of Southern California Service Award
2007 NEH Summer Seminar, “German Exile Culture in California,” Professor Russell Berman, Stanford University
2007 Young Scholars Achievement Award, La Verne Academy, ULV
2005 NEH Summer Institute, “The Redemptive West,” Professor William Deverell, The Huntington Library
2001 Golden Leaves Book Award, CSU Pomona
2000 Certificate of Achievement for Exceptional Accomplishments, CSU Pomona
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate
History 100: World Civilizations I
History 101: World Civilizations II
History 110: United States History and Cultures
History 316: California History
History 330: Early Modern Europe
History 331: Modern Europe
History 337: Nineteenth Century Europe
History 398: Approaches to History
History 409/Honors 304: Exiles and Modernism: European and Mexican Émigré Writers and Artists in Southern California
History 416: Los Angeles: The Study of a City
History 425: Topics in U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History
History 432: Medieval and Renaissance Europe
History 436: French Revolution and Napoleon
History 499: Senior Seminar
Graduate
Exiles and Modernism: European and Mexican Émigré Writers and Artists in Southern California, Leiden University, The Netherlands
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
American Musicological Association
Society for American Music
Historical Society of Southern California
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
2012 External Reviewer, History Department, University of Redlands
2010-14 First Vice-President, Historical Society of Southern California (HSSC)
2008 External Reviewer, NEH Seminar Panel Review Board
2008- Board member, HSSC
2007-09 Reviewer, John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation/HSSC Grants
2001-03 Secretary, Pacific Southwest Chapter, American Musicological Society
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
German (fluent)
French (fluent)
Kenneth Marcus, Ph.D. 