Historic and cultural resources research, evaluation, preservation, and public interpretation
Selected projects
Anna Naruta, PhD
Historic and cultural resources research, evaluation, preservation, and public interpretation
Anna Naruta has served as Chair of the City of Oakland Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board (Mill Tax Act implementation committee), Acting Director of the National Archives at San Francisco, and Archival Specialist at the Hoover Institution Archives.
Selected projects:
Yolanda Garfias Woo, ¡Que Viva la Muerte! Long Life to Death (San Francisco and Oakland: Chervona Ruta Publications with La Tehuana Multicultural Products, 2012) (editor)
Finding aid to the Pardee Lowe papers, 1911-1995, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University (2011) [permalink]
Register of the Ethan Theodore Colton papers, 1917-1952, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University (2010) [permalink]
“Oakland Chinatown History: Oakland's Old San Pablo Avenue Chinatown,” in Wa Sung Community Service Club Oakland Chinatown -- East Bay Community Directory 2010
“Civil Rights sites of Oakland Chinatown” Oakland Heritage Alliance Walking Tour 2010
As Researcher, Curator, and Project Manager
Lead Curator, The Bancroft Library, the California Historical Society, and the Chinese Historical Society of America present The Chinese of California, February 7-August 30, 2008, at CHS, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 (Exhibition Design: Gordon Chun Design; Project Registrar: Maren Jones Art Services) [link] [press]
The Chinese Historical Society of America and the Chinese American Citizens Alliance present To Enjoy and Defend Our American Citizenship, July 2007 – December 13, 2008, Philip P. Choy Gallery, CHSA Museum
Exploring the experiences of Chinese Californians in their groundbreaking work alongside groups such as the NAACP to challenge discriminatory laws and create the support systems necessary for survival in a segregated United States
[installation photos] [online exhibit: OurAmericanCitizenship.org]
related: Remembering 1882 | Glamour & Grace: The History and Culture of Miss Chinatown USA
Remembering 1882: Fighting for Civil Rights in the Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act
A traveling exhibit and companion website of primary source documents, research, and video, launched on the 125th anniversary of the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act with an exhibition and expert symposium [video] with the Historical Society for the Northern District of California, Philip Burton Federal Building, Northern California District Court, 450 Golden Gate, San Francisco, May 2007; currently traveling to universities and historic sites [press]
[installation photos] [online exhibit, video, reading room: Remembering1882.org]
CHSA Museum Booklet series
A series developed to meet the need for museum interpretative booklets with compelling design and an affordable price point
[launch for publication with Oakland Museum of California and City Lights Foundation]
Cultural Resources Evaluation – partial client list:
Owners of historic properties in Oakland and Alameda
Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC)
Chinese Historical Society of America [link]
with OACC, others, for UptownChinatown.org [link] [link]
for NJAHS charette for Building 640 Military Legacy Site, Presidio of San Francisco
San Jose Japantown Congress –Heinlenville archaeological site [link] [link]
Presidio of San Francisco (as part of Sponsored Project of the Presidio Trust, National Park Service Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and the University of California, Berkeley)
for University of California, Berkeley, Archaeological Research Facility
California State Parks – Fort Ross
consultant for Wenner-Gren Foundation funded geophysical research in Togo, West Africa
Selected Publications:
"A 'Landmark': History of Chinese Californians by Chinese Californians, 1969; " photo histories including "Taking to the Streets: Scenes from 1968-72; " thematic volume "Seizing the Moment: Twentieth-Century Chinese American Activism – A special volume on the fortieth anniversary of a wealth of activism in the San Francisco bay Area and beyond" (San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2009)
CHSA Publications 2009 Catalog; content and project management [pdf]
"Introduction – Labor and San Francisco's Garment Industry;" photo histories including "Organizing and on Strike: Portraits of the Chinese Ladies Garment Workers Unions Local No. 341 in 1938;" Special issue of Chinese America: History & Perspectives – The Journal of the Chinese Historical Society of America (San Francisco: CHSA) 2008
"Activating Legal Protections for Archaeological Remains of Historic Chinatown Sites: Lessons Learned from Oakland, California"
History and archaeologyof the Chinatowns and early development of Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles, Riverside, and Oakland, California (PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2006) [Oakland work featured by Cal Berkeley: link]
Content Consultant for Unshakable: Rebirth of S.F. Chinatown in 1906, Sing Tao Daily Commemorative Supplement, April 15, 2006; co-author, with Jamille Teer (another student supervised in advanced research with primary source historical materials), of "Pre-quake Demographics" the supplement's report on San Francisco Chinatown composition in 1900, and the Chinese, Japanese, and African American newspapers then operating there.
"San Francisco Chinatown 1906-2006: Selected Milestones"
Earthquake: The Chinatown Story, 2006 exhibition Lead Curator and Project Manager; author of exhibit takeaway on 1905-1906 attempt to dislocate San Francisco Chinatown [link]
"Lew Hing's Pacific Coast Canning Company – A New Jobsite in West Oakland, 1905" Oakland Heritage Alliance News 25(1): 1, 3, 9 (Spring 2005)
Oakland's San Pablo Avenue Chinatown: A compilation of research to aid the upcoming archaeological sensitivity study and treatment plan to be drafted by the archaeological contractor for Forest City's Uptown redevelopment project. Oakland: UptownChinatown.org, January 2005.
Research advisor for Kelly Fong's award-winning primary source study, "Nineteenth Century Oakland Chinese Businesses"
Credited Researcher for website publishing newly discovered speech of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., historical context and results, 2000
Public Education sessions organized:
Rediscovering the Bay Area's Chinese Heritage – three-part conference session, 2005
"Oakland Chinatown: 'The First 150 Years'" – Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 2004
About the Him Mark Lai Digital Archive Project [prototype], 2007
Documentary shorts:
Him Mark Lai – The Master Archivist (2008)
Glamour & Grace – The History and Culture of Miss Chinatown USA (2007)
Remembering 1882:Fighting for Civil Rights in the Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act (2007)
Affiliations include:
Society of California Archivists (SCA), Outreach Committee co-chair for Northern California
Society of American Archivists [link]
Phi Kappa Phi; Pi Mu Epsilon
Selected Certifications and Training:
Western Archives Institute, Institute of Museum and Library Services and Society of California Archivists
Legal Aspects of Photography Rights, Archives Management and Permissions, Society of American Archivists
Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF Bootcamp
Oral History project planning and implementation, Oakland Living History Project, Mills College
Lead Agency California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Review, California Preservation Foundation / National Park Service, Presidio of San Francisco
Historic Preservation Training for Local Governments, California Office of Historic Preservation and California Preservation Foundation
Princeton in Beijing language immersion program of Beijing Normal University
Ranked #1 statewide, Museum Curator I, 2008 State of California Qualifying Examinations
Ranked top 5 statewide, State Historian I, Museum Curator II and III
Awarded Partners in Preservation award from Oakland Heritage Alliance
Contact:
Anna – at – HistoryNews.net
1714 Franklin Street #100-300
Oakland, CA 94612
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