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Director's Bio
Los Angeles based historian, Sharon Sekhon is committed to establishing a central place to disseminate recovered and often overlooked histories of community and strife from a socio-cultural perspective. She is the Founder and Director of the Studio for Southern California History, a project of Community Partners.
With many others, Sekhon believes that the power of specific historical knowledge towards building community development and identity cannot be overstated. Inspired by countless stories encountered in local archives and through oral histories, she was motivated to uncover and disseminate the region’s hidden history through establishment of the Studio. These are often the stories shared across kitchen tables but rarely shared beyond intimate family circles. Southern California is much more than the sensationalized accounts that riddle popular culture—from Hollywood to mainstream journalism that propagate violence over community and often anonymous victims. The story of the region is a rich tableaux of diverse neighborhoods, cultures and experiences. Sekhon is committed to a body of shared knowledge that ultimately connects contemporary communities to past generations and historical places.
Sekhon received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Southern California and in 2003 was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship (2003-05) from the Annenberg Center for Communication’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy. Examples of her work include A Peoples Guide to Los Angeles with Laura Pulido (2003) and The Holiday Bowl History Project (2004) and "The Los Angeles Anti-Myth and Southern California Sense of Place: Navigating a Mediated Landscape" in Varieties of Urban Experience. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America: 2006).
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