Samples of recent and earlier work, downloadable or linkable
(last updated 2008.09.17)
Narratives of global history:
"Global Spaces of Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s," in Gyan Prakash and Kevin Kruse, eds, The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life. (Princeton University Press, 2008), pp. 58-98.
Empirical studies of residential segregation, neighborhood stability and change.
"The Racial Resegregation of Los Angeles County, 1940-2000"
by Philip J. Ethington, William H. Frey, and Dowell Myers, Race Contours 2000 Public Research Report 2001-05 [PDF]
Toward a spatio-visual historical epistemology:
"Placing the Past: 'Groundwork' for a Spatial Theory of History," forum with responses to Ethington's essay by Thomas Bender, David Carr, Edward Casey, Edward Dimendberg, and Alun Munslow, Rethinking History 11:4 (December 2007): 463-530. [PDF]
Early work:
"The Intellectual Construction of 'Social Distance': Toward a Recovery of Georg Simmel's Social Geometry," in Cybergeo, electronic edition of European Journal of Geography vol 30 (posted 16 September 1997): http://www.cybergeo.presse.fr/essoct/texte/socdis.htm
Contributions to Political Science methods:
Philip J. Ethington and David Levitus, "Cities, Regions, and Regimes: Placing American Political Development," a book chapter for The City in American Political Development, edited by Richardson Dilworth, under consideration by Cornell University Press (2008). [DRAFT]
Philip J. Ethington and Jason McDaniel, "Political places and institutional spaces: The intersection of political science and political geography," in Annual Review of Political Science 10 (2007): 127-143.
Early work:
Philip J. Ethington and Eileen McDonagh, special issue co-editors "Conference Panel: The Intellectual Legacy of the Johns Hopkins University Seminary of History and Politics: Reconsidering the Genealogy of the Social Sciences," Studies in American Political Development 8:2 (Fall 1994): 375-408.
Digital/Multimedia Publications and Work-in-Progress:
With Dave Lopez and Mary P. Ryan, multimedia companion, "A durable centre of urban space: the Los Angeles Plaza," Urban History 33:3 (Cambridge Journals Online, Dec 2006).
With Vanessa R. Schwartz, co-editor of special issue, "Urban Icons," and "Introduction: an atlas of the Urban Icons project, Urban History 33:1 (June 2006).
With Dave Lopez, Ghost Metropolis Online (2nd prototype, 2008)
With the HyperCities Collaborative (MacArthur/HASTAC Digital Media and Learning award winner), Ghost Metropolis-HyperCities (in progress)
Early Work:
"Los Angeles and the Problem of Urban Historical Knowledge," American Historical Review 105:5 (December 2000), (the first online-only multimedia essay published by this journal, on http://Historycooperative.org. Yahoo!'s Pick of the Week (February 26, 2001) For direct link: http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/LAS/history/historylab/LAPUHK/index.html