Lynn Downey writes on topics ranging from the history of jeans, the treatment of tuberculosis in California, American art pottery, and the history and culture of Arizona dude ranch towns. She was the Levi Strauss & Co. Historian from 1989 to 2014 and her biography of Levi Strauss will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in the fall of 2016. She is currently working on a history of the Arequipa Sanatorium through the lens of her grandmother’s experience there.