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Cal Winslow (born Seattle, WA 1943) Background Cal Winslow is a Fellow in Environmental History (Geography) at the University of California, Berkeley. 1. He is the Director of the Mendocino, a non-profit, community based research, policy and educational center located on the North Coast of Mendocino County (CA).2. He was trained as a social historian at Antioch College, Warwick University and the University of Washington in Seattle.3. At Warwick, he wrote his PhD dissertation, “Sussex Smugglers, A Case Study in Eighteenth Century Crime,” under the direction of the late Edward Thompson. 4. Career Winslow taught labor history in workers’ education programs at Queens College, CUNY and the Center for Worker Education, CUNY (1984-1999. He also taught at the Northern College for Residential Adult Education in Barnsley, UK, (1995-1996) where he also directed a US-UK exchange program: City College adult working class learners attended summer schools (1996-1999) at Northern College. He has been a visiting professor at York University in the UK and the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.5. Activist As a student, Winslow was active in the Civil Rights Movement while at Antioch College He was an anti-war leader at the University of Washington, where he was chairman of the UW Vietnam Committee as well as a member of Students for a Democratic Society. In 1968 he was the Peace and Freedom Party’s candidate for vice president, running with presidential candidate, Black Panther, Eldridge Cleaver.6. He is a trade unionist and continues to be an anti-war activist as a founder of Mendocino Parents for Peace. 7. He is a member of Retort, a Bay Area based collective of writers, artists, intellectuals, dissenters and activists.8. He is married to Faith Simon, a Family Nurse Practitioner; they live near Caspar on the Mendocino Coast. They have four children.

Recent Books West of Eden, Communes and Utopia in Northern California, ed., Oakland: PM Press, 2012; Albion’s Fatal Tree, Crime and Society in Eighteenth Century England, EP Thompson and others, Second Edition, London and New York: Verso Books, 2011; Labor’s Civil War in California,, Oakland: PM Press 2010; and Rebel Rank and File, Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below in the Long 1970s, ed., London and New York, Verso, 2010. Waterfront Workers, New Perspectives on Race and Class, Champaign, Illinois Press, 1998.

1. http://geography.berkeley.edu/people/visiting-scholars.php 2. www.mendocinoinstitute.org 3. Antioch College Alumnae/i Directory, Harris, White Plains, 1993 4. Albion’s Fatal Tree, new addition, Verso, 2012) 5. www.mendocinoinstitute.org  6. University of Washington Daily, October 1, 1968  7. NUHW.org

8. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retort_(collective)‎