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About Joan Peterson

Positions

2000 - Present Professor, Saint Mary's College of California
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Present Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Kalmanovitz School of Education
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Present Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Single Subject Program
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2015 - 2017 Collegiate Seminar Governing Board member, Saint Mary's College of California
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2015 - 2016 Member, Collegiate Seminar Governing Board, Saint Mary's College of California
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April 2015 Holocaust Remembrance, Saint Mary's College of California
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April 2014 Holocaust Remembrance, Saint Mary's College of California
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April 2013 Holocaust Remembrance: The Holocaust and Rwandan Genocides, Saint Mary's College of California
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October 2008 - June 2009 Member, Rank and Tenure Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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August 2004 - May 2008 Member, Collegiate Seminar Governing Board, Saint Mary's College of California
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August 2004 - May 2007 Academic Senate: Senator, Saint Mary's College of California
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August 1999 - May 2002 Member, Educational Policies Board, Saint Mary's College of California
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1998 - 2000 Associate Professor, Saint Mary's College of California
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1991 - 1997 Full-time adjunct faculty, Saint Mary's College of California
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Disciplines

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Professional Service and Affiliations

1987 - 1990 Instructor: English, Diablo Valley Community College
1970 - 1987 Secondary teacher, English, Journalism, Speech
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Honors and Awards

  • Professor of the Year, Saint Mary's College of California (2018)
  • Fellow, Transforming Troubling Tellings: The History of the Deicide Charge and the Holocaust - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Fellow, Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization - Northwestern University (June 2006)
  • Fellow, Literature of the Holocaust - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. (June 2003)
  • O. DeSales Perez Award - Saint Mary's College of California (November 2003)
  • Holocaust Appreciation - The Holocaust Remembrance Committee of Alameda County (May 2000)
  • For Dedication to Teaching the Lessons of the Holocaust to the Next Generation - The Bilha Sperling Holocaust Education Award (November 2000)

Courses

  • SSTE-356: Teaching and Learning II: English
  • SSTE 346: Teaching and Learning I
  • SSTE 254: Foundations of Literacy
  • SSTE 211: Social and Psychological Foundations of Education
  • Introduction to Inquiry: MAT Program
  • Content Knowledge: MAT Program
  • Collegiate Seminar
  • SSTE-356: Teaching and Learning II: English
  • SEM-123: 19th-20th Century Thought
  • MA in Teaching: Introduction to Inquiry
  • MA in Teaching: Content Knowledge
  • Jan Term: Sacred Spaces (2006)
  • Jan Term: Response to the Holocaust in Literature, Art, and Music (2007)
  • Jan term: Rescue Against All Odds: Heroes Who Saved Jews in Nazified Europe (2012)
  • Jan Term: Theological Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism and links to The Holocaust (2013)
  • Jan Term: After the Holocaust: What Happened to Nazi War Criminals and Jewish Survivors? (2014)
  • Jan Term: The Holocaust: What You Don't Know and Why it Still Matters (2015)
  • Jan Term: The Holocaust and France (2016)
  • Jan Term: Holocaust Remembrance in art, music, literature and memorials (2017)
  • Jan Term: Holocaust Remembrance in art, music, literature and memorials (2018)

Education

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1994 Ed.D. Curriculum and Instruction, University of San Francisco
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1989 M.A. British and American Literature, Mills College
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1970 California Secondary Teaching Credential: English and Speech, San Francisco State University
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1969 B.A. English, minor in Speech, San Francisco State University
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Contact Information

Office
Filippi Academic Hall - 221

Phone: 4488
Fax: 376-8379

Mail: P.O. Box 4350

Email:

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Presentations (29)