Cole Manley, lecturer in the History Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, researches and writes about 19th and 20th century United States history. He is adapting his PhD dissertation into a book focused on the spatial, racial, and urban politics of San Francisco and Oakland from the 1860s through the 1960s.
He completed the dual-degree program in 2020, and published his Master's thesis as a book, available at the University of Georgia press, The Unlikely World of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He is from San Francisco, originally, and lives in San Luis Obispo, CA.
