SUNDAY, JANUARY 24 AT 1:30 PM
Please join us for for an online, live talk with Dr. Geraldine Knatz as she discusses her book “Port of Los Angeles: Conflict, Commerce and the Fight for Control”.
To request a link for the Zoom meeting, send an email to Mona at mdalred@gmail.com, and supply your full name. Please write “Port Talk” in the subject line.
With more than 200 images and research unmatched in detail and insight, Geraldine Knatz writes the history of the Port of Los Angeles from its earliest days to its emergence as the most important container port in the United States.
Knatz, with her nearly 4 decades of experience at the harbor approaches its legacy with a respect and so many amazing stories that PORT OF LOS ANGELES leaves the world’s transportation aficionados spellbound and historians in awe.
About The Author
Geraldine Knatz is Professor of the Practice of Policy and Engineering, a joint appointment between the University of Southern California’s School of Public Policy and the School of Engineering. She served as the first female Director of the Port of Los Angeles from 2006 to January 2014 and prior to that was Managing Director at the Port of Long Beach. In 2014, she was named a member of the National Academy of Engineering in recognition of her international leadership in the development of environmentally clean urban seaports. She is past president of the American Association of Port Authorities and past president of the International Association of Ports and Harbors.
She is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academies Transportation Research Board, served for 10 years as a gubernatorial appointee to California’s Ocean Protection Council and is on the boards of Dewberry Engineering and Lighthouse Resources. Knatz is currently the vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees of Altasea, a 30 acre campus located within the Port of Los Angeles devoted to marine and maritime research, education and business entrepreneurialism. Knatz has authored numerous publications as well as an award winning book Terminal Island, Lost Communities of Los Angeles Harbor. Her most recent book is a political history of the Port of Los Angeles, co-published by the Huntington Library’s Institute for California and the West and Angel City Press, titled, Port of Los Angeles, Conflict, Commerce and the Fight for Control.
Knatz’s career has been featured in several popular books, most notably in Pulitzer Prize winning
journalist Edward Humes’s Door to Door and David Helvarg’s The Golden Shore.