Selected Publications, ETC.
“Does Heritage Have a Role in Addressing the Climate Crisis?” University of Essex blogs, May 26, 2022.
“Expanding the Narratives: How Stories of Our Past Can Help Inspire Our Response to the Climate Crisis.” Donna Graves, Elizabeth Villano and Clare Cooper in The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice (2021).
“Public Historians in Our Climate Emergency: An Introduction.” Donna Graves and David Glassberg. History @ Work, National Council on Public History, September 2021.
“Achieving Equity Through Heritage Preservation: Lessons From the Margin for the Center, An Interview with Donna Graves” in Issues in Preservation Policy, edited by Erica Avrami, 2021.
“What WWII Can Teach Us About Essential Work.” OpEd for The Hill, April 26, 2020
A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area, Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr editors. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. Wrote several entries.
"Taking Intersectionality Seriously: Lessons from LGBTQ Heritage Initiatives for Historic Preservation." Donna Graves with Gail Dubrow. The Public Historian May 2019.
“Emerging Strategies for Sustaining San Francisco’s Diverse Heritage.” Donna Graves, James Buckley and Gail Dubrow, Change Over Time Fall 2018
“‘Women are Everywhere’: Celebrating The Women’s Building.” Forum Journal 2019.
"In Praise of Multistory Places." History @ Work, National Council on Public History, April 2017.
Blossoms & Thorns: A Community Uprooted, produced documentary film with director Ken Kokka, 2017
“Citywide Historic Context Statement for LGBTQ History in San Francisco.” with Shayne E. Watson, 2016.
“Tangible Benefits from Intangible Resources: Using Social and Cultural History to Plan Neighborhood Futures” with James Buckley. Journal of the American Planning Association, March 2016.
“The Necessity of Interpretation,” in Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty years of Historic Preservation, Marla Miller and Max Page eds. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.
“Transforming a Hostile Environment: Japanese Immigrant Farmers and Flower Growers in Metropolitan California,” in Food and the City, Dorothee Imbert and John Beardsley, eds. Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Press, 2015.
“The History Professional: An Interview with Donna Graves.” The Federalist:Sociery for History in the Federal Government, Winter 2014-15.
Memories of Place: Clarksburg’s Japanese Language School, documentary film co-directed with Jill Shiraki, 2013.
The Legacy of California’s Landmarks: A Report for the California Cultural and Historical Endowment, Legislature-mandated study on the gaps between California’s diverse histories and formal landmark programs, 2012.
Japanese American Heritage and the Quest for Civil Rights in Riverside, 1890s to 1970s. National Register for Historic Places Multiple Property Document, 2012.
“Preserving California’s Japantowns,” Cultural Resources Management: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship, Winter 2009.
“Revising Rosie the Riveter: From Public Art to National Park” in Public Art by the Book, Barbara Goldstein ed., Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.
Sento at Sixth and Main: Preserving Landmarks of Japanese American Heritage Gail Dubrow with Donna Graves. Seattle: Seattle Arts Commission, 2002, reprinted by Smithsonian Institution Press, 2005.