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| Teaching Experience University of California, Spring, 2001 Geography 50AC, "California and the Pacific Basin" Mills College, Fall, 2000 History of the Bay Area University of California, Fall, 1996 Geography 181, Bay Area field course University of California, Fall, 1995 Geography 181, Bay Area field course University of California, Fall, 1994 Geography 181, Bay Area field course San Francisco State University, Spring 1987 Humanities 376, "Biography of San Francisco" California College of Arts and Crafts, Spring, 1987 "Architectural History of the Bay Area" San Francisco State University, Spring 1986 Humanities 376, "Biography of San Francisco" University Extension, Spring 1986 "Architectural History of the Bay Area" Between 1995 and 2000, Gray Brechin taught numerous classes on San Francisco history and architecture for the San Francisco Elder Hostel |
Selected talks 10/25/02 Sierra Club Marin Group, Keynote Speaker “Megafollies: Projects Stopped by Citizen Opposition” 10/24/02 UC Berkeley Art Museum “Phoebe Apperson Hearst as Collector” 10/15/02 University of Wales, Aberystwyth “The California Environment: Present Problems” 9/15/02 Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah “Awakening from the California Dream: An Environmental History” 9/14/02 Contra Costa County Historical Society “How Contra Costa County Played a Colonial Role to SF Industrialists” 8/7/02 Jack London Lecture Series, Sonoma State University “The Myths of Wolf House” 7/6/02 NAMHO Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales “The Comstock Lode and Sutro Tunnel” 5/9/02 Mendocino Land Trust “The Destruction of the California Environment” 4/5/02 Pomona College “Megafollies” 3/25/02 Foothill Club, Saratoga “Julia Morgan and Bernard Maybeck” 1/18/02 Chico Museum “Farewell, Promised Land” 11/15/01 Harvey Mudd College “Imperial Urbanism: Elites and the Fiction of Nations” 10/25/01 National Society of Architectural Historians “Bernard Maybeck and the First Bay Tradition” 7/29/01 Maybeck Foundation “Bernard Maybeck’s Neighborhood” 7/11/01 Benjamin Ide Wheeler Lecture, U.C. Berkeley “Phoebe Apperson Hearst as University Patron” 5/31/01 Alameda Historical Society “Imperial San Francisco” 4/16/01 UCSF Founders’ Day “Adolph Sutro” 4/3/01 Morning Forum, Palo Alto “The Comstock Dynasties” 3/28/01 Mechanics’ Institute “Imperial San Francisco” 3/24/01 Modesto Museum “Farewell, Promised Land” 1/31/01 Victorian Alliance “Imperial San Francisco” 1/28/01 Oakland Museum “Arts and Crafts in San Francisco” 1/19/01 Word for Word, San Francisco Discussion of Upton Sinclair’s Oil! 1/18/01 Chico Museum “Farewell, Promised Land” 12/2/00 Willa Baum Retirement, Morrison Room “Using ROHO Interviews” 11/16/00 Notre Dame University, Belmont “The Ralston and Sharon Families at Belmont” 11/2/00 Stegner Center for the Environment “Remembrances of Bob Walker, Photographer” 10/30/00 National Trust tour of San Simeon “William Randolph Hearst” 9/27/00 Berkeley Pathwnderers “The Legacy of the Hillside Club” 9/16/00 Tulare County History Museum “Farewell, Promised Land” 9/9/00 Rededication of restored Sunol Water Temple “The Meaning of the Temple” 7/12/00 University of Nevada symposium for schoolteachers “Imperial San Francisco” 6/23/00 Environmenta Action Committee of West Marin, Keynote speaker “Megafollies, and the Saving of West Marin” 6/14/00 Institute of Classical Architecture, New York “The Architecture and Planning of Imperial San Francisco” 6/11/00 San Mateo Historical Society, Keynote speaker “Imperial San Francisco: The San Mateo Dynasties” 5/18/00 Santa Cruz Museum Association “Waking from the California Dream” 5/13/00 UC Berkeley, Geography Department, Commencement speaker “Do We Learn?” 5/9/00 University of California, Davis “Imperial San Francisco” 5/4/00 National Trust for Historic Preservation tour “San Francisco Architecture” 4/14/00 California Preservation Conference, Keynote Speaker “The Development of Bay Area Architecture” 3/25/00 Huntington Museum “San Francisco Dreams of Pacific Empire” 3/20/00 Microsoft Reseach Group, Seattle “High Technology Control of the Hinterland” 3/19/00 Berkeley Art Museum “Inverting Space, Inviting Nature: John Galen Howard’s vs Bernard Maybeck’s Competing Visions for the Berkeley Campus” 2/23/00 Friends of Free Speech Radio, Sonoma “Media Dynasties” 2/10/00 UC Berkeley Art Museum “The Phoebe Hearst Architecturla Competition for U.C. Berkeley” 1/28/00 Elliott Bay Book Co., Seattle “Imperial San Francisco” 1/25/00 Powell’s Bookstore, Portland “Imperial San Francisco” 11/22/99 Town & Gown Club, Berkeley “Megafollies” 11/14/99 California Library Association, Coulter Lecture “Mining the Commons: The Privatization of Everything in the Age of the Silicon Gold Rush” 11/13/99 Dawson’s Book Store, Los Angeles Salon “Farewell, Promised Land” 10/27/99 UC Department of History “Following the Bloodlines: Dynastic Research for Imperial SF” 9/16/99 Bancroft Library Roundtable “Crime and Reward: The Untimely Death of William Chapman Ralston, the Triumph of Senator Sharon, and the Birth of the Bureau of Reclamation” 9/23/95 Ed Hardy Seminars "Julia Morgan and Her Times" 7/29/95 Micahel H. deYoung Museum "Healing Landscapes" 7/8/95 Labor Conference, San Francisco "Labor Murals in San Francisco" 2/17/95 U.C. Planners "The Phoebe Hearst Memorial for U.C." 2/4/95 California Studies Conference "Energy Shapes the City" 3/30/94 American Association of Geographers "Destiny's Gunsight: Symbolism of the Golden Gate" 3/29/94 American Association of Geographers "The Conquering Grid" [Keynote address to national convention] 3/26/94 Ishi Symposium at Oakland Museum "Ishi Meets 'The End of the Trail'" 2/24/94 New College of California "San Francisco's Oligarchy" 2/20/94 California Studies Conference "Suicidal Utopias: California Cities in 1915 and Now" 11/9/93 San Francisco Historical Society "Imperial San Francisco" 9/30/93 Foundation for San Francisco's Architectural Heritage "The Imperial Dynasties" 5/30/93 Association of International Educators, National Convention "Development of San Francisco" 1/28/93 Art Libraries Society of North America, National Convention "The Architecture of San Francisco" 10/23/92 California History Center, DeAnza College "The World We Lost: California in 1915 and Now" 9/14/92 Friends of Filoli "Olmsted in California." 6/28/92 College of Notre Dame @ Belmont "Quicksilver: California's Forgotten Bonanza" 5/9/92 Humanities West "Imperial San Francisco" 4/22/92 Stanford Humanities Center "Imperial San Francisco" 5/1/91 New York Academy of Sciences "Imperial San Francisco" 3/19/91 National School Boards Association, National Convention "Building A City On Gold" 11/12/90 Exploratorium, 75th Anniversary "The Panama-Pacific International Exposition and the Palace of Fine Arts" Other engagements: Commonwealth Club U.C. Committee for Arts and Lectures College Art Association College of Marin Smithsonian Associates American Institute of Architects American Institute of Architectural Students American Society of Interior Designers American Institute of Urban Planners American Association of Neuroscience Nurses American Bankers’ Association SPUR Diablo Forum Levi Strauss Crown Zellerbach Associated General Contractors of America San Francisco Architecture Club Berkeley Architectectural Heritage Association Hearst Corporation German Marshall Fellows The Gamble House, Pasadena San Francisco Tomorrow San Francisco Beautiful Friends of the San Francisco Public Library Friends of the Orinda Public Library Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights Sons of Harvard Coalition of San Francisco Neighborhoods Strybing Arboretum Society San Francisco Natural History Group California Creeks Conference California Water Policy Group Institute for Historical Research Scotch Whiskey Information Center Oakland Heritage Alliance Headlands Center for the Arts San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum |