Jeff Lustig

Alum 2008

Jeff Lustig (1943-2012) was a professor of government at California State University, Sacramento. He authored Corporate Liberalism: The Origins of Modern American Political Theory, 1890–1920, and wrote numerous articles on American and Californian politics and political theory, the corporatization of the modern university, and on immigration, race, and class. He was director of the Center for California Studies at California State University, Sacramento, and founding chair of the California Studies Association. He was a trustee of the California Historical Society and a founder and chair of Northcoast Labor History Project.