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Gregory Kendrick

Director of the Freshman Cluster Program and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History

Kendrick received a B.A. in English and political science from the University of Kentucky (1975); an M.A. in history from San Francisco State University (1989); and a Ph.D. in history from UCLA (1995). After graduating from UCLA, Kendrick continued to lecture in the UCLA history department and worked at Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation as a historian specializing in modern Germany. He began working in the cluster program in 1998.

Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Sam Gamgee in “The Lord of the Rings.”

Who are your heroes in real life?
Among the living: poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder; perennial gadfly Gore Vidal. Among those long dead: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sam Rayburn, Emma Goldman, Henry Clay and Julius Caesar.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My love handles.