Brian Shott

Editorial Coordinator, West Berkeley Shellmound Book Project

Brian Shott is a writer, editor, and historian who has lived in the Bay Area since 1991. His journalistic writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He received a PhD in U.S. history in 2015 from U.C. Santa Cruz, and is the author of Mediating America: Black and Irish Press and the Struggle for Citizenship, 1870-1914 (Temple University Press, 2019). He has taught history to inmates at San Quentin prison through Mount Tamalpais College.