1993 - Present | Professor, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ History | |
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Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ School of Liberal Arts | |
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Present | Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Women's and Gender Studies | |
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1992 - 1992 | Faculty Member, California State University, East Bay | |
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Chair, History Department, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Chair, Liberal Arts Dean Search Committee, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Director, Women's Studies, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Member, Academic Senate, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Member, Collegiate Seminar Advisory Board, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Member, Course Evaluation Task Force, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Member, Diversity Committee, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Member, Ethnic Studies Advisory Board, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Member, Faculty Welfare Committee, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Member, Grievance Committee, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Member, Irvine Fellows Advisory Board, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Member, Social Historical and Cultural Understanding Working Group, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Member, Women's Studies Advisory Board, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Member/Chair, Rank and Tenure Committee, Saint Mary's College of California | ||
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Black Migration, The African American Church, Civil Rights Movement, Feminist Theory, 20th Century Movements for Social Change, Race Relations and Ethnicity, History of American Women, Pacifism, California Studies, Urban Poverty, Sixties Counterculture, Oral History and Memory Studies, and Medical History
Grants
1990 | Anne Firor Scott Research Grant |
Duke University |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2017 | Program/Planning Committee member, Revisiting the Summer of Love: Rethinking the Counterculture Conference | 2000 | Consultant, National Park Service - World War II Home Front National Park | 1997 - 1998 | Consultant, Rosie the Riveter Memorial Project - City of Richmond | 1987 - 1988 | Research Associate, Northern California Center for Afro-American History and Life | Member, AAUP National Committee on the Status of Women | Member, American Association of University Professors | Member, American Historical Association | Member, California Historical Society | Member, Organization of American Historians | Member, SMC AAUP Executive Committee | Member, Western Association of Women Historians | Member, Western History Association |
Honors and Awards
- Faculty Scholars Award, Saint Mary's College (2013)
- Wesley Logan Prize, American Historical Association (1996)
- Irvine Fellowship, Saint Mary's College (1996)
- American Dissertation Fellowship, American Association of University Women (1991-1992)
- Andrew Mellon Fellowship, Duke University (1991-1992)
- Anne Firor Scott Research Award, Duke University (1990)
- Syndor Fellowship, Duke University (1988-1991)
- Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement, San Francisco State University (1988)
Courses
- 1968 (Senior Thesis)
- America in the Sixties (Senior Thesis)
- Community Organizing (January Term)
- Collegiate Seminar
- U.S. History Survey
- U.S. Environmental History
- Multicultural History of American Women
- Civil Rights Movement (January Term and Senior Thesis)
- California History
- African American History
- Disease in World History (Senior Thesis)
1993 | Ph.D. History, Duke University | |
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1988 | M.A. History, San Francisco State University | |
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1986 | B.A. History, San Francisco State University | |
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Links
Contact Information
Office Hours, Spring 2020
MWF: 7:00-8:00; 9;45-11:20
and by Appointment
Office
Galileo Hall - 310
Contact:
Phone: 4593
Fax: 631-4490
Mail: P.O. Box 4730
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