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Faculty- Department of Humanities

Peter La Chapelle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Location: LAS Building, Office 143
Office Phone: (702) 992-2625
Email: Peter.LaChapelle@nsc.nevada.edu

Dr. La Chapelle received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and has taught history and media studies at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia and California State University, Dominguez Hills. A former journalist and Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. La Chapelle is the author of Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California (University of California Press, 2007. He has written articles on the histories of race, gender, the Dust Bowl migration, and country music culture for A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music (University of Press of Mississippi, 2004), Moving Stories: Migration and the American West, 1850-2000 (University of Nevada Press, 2001) and Dress: The Annual Journal of the Costume Society of America (2001). He teaches classes in history, specializing in contemporary U.S. history, cultural history, race and ethnicity, American Studies, Latino American history, and media history, especially music and film. Dr. La Chapelle enjoys hiking and spending time with his one-year-old son.