Imagined Wests

Name: Imagined Wests | The Huntington
Start: Wed, Dec 6 2023
Location: The Huntington

Event

Josh Garrett-Davis, The Huntington’s H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American History, joins Anthony Macías, author and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside, for a conversation exploring the Autry Museum’s exhibition “Imagined Wests.”

Lectures

The Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West presents “Imagined Wests,” a webinar exploring the new permanent exhibition at the Autry Museum of the American West.

Josh Garrett-Davis is the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American History at The Huntington. For nearly eight years, he served as the Gamble Curator of Western History, Popular Culture, and Firearms at the Autry Museum of the American West, where he led the National Endowment for the Humanities–funded renovation of the long-term exhibition “Imagined Wests.” He is the author of What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination (2019) and numerous other publications for both academic and general audiences.

Anthony Macías is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside, and author of the books Mexican American Mojo and Chicano-Chicana Americana: Pop Culture Pluralism. He has published in many academic journals and has peer-reviewed article manuscripts for several, including The Western Historical Quarterly and The Western Journal of Black Studies. At the Autry Museum, he presented for the Works in Progress workshop series and introduced three public movie screenings for the “What Is a Western?” film series.