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About Katherine Roper

Positions

1969 - 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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2004 - 2006 Member, Grievance Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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2001 - 2002 Alternate, Rank and Tenure Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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1997 - 2001 Member, Faculty Welfare Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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2000 - 2000 Acting Chair, History Department, Saint Mary's College of California
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1998 - 1999 Member, Faculty Workload Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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1996 - 1997 Co-Chair, Library Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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1996 - 1997 Member, Film Program Advisory Board, Saint Mary's College of California
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1996 - 1997 Member, Presidential Search Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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1994 - 1995 Chair, Academic Senate, Saint Mary's College of California
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1993 - 1995 Member, New Century Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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1990 - 1995 Member, Rank and Tenure Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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1981 - 1995 Member, January Term Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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1993 - 1994 Vice-Chair, Academic Senate, Saint Mary's College of California
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1984 - 1994 Member, Collegiate Seminar Governing Board, Saint Mary's College of California
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1986 - 1992 Chair, History Department, Saint Mary's College of California
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1990 - 1990 Acting Director of January Term, Saint Mary's College of California
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1987 - 1988 Member, Rank and Tenure Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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1986 - 1988 Member, President's Task Force for Long Range Planning, Saint Mary's College of California
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1982 - 1984 Member, Rank and Tenure Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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1979 - 1980 Member, Rank and Tenure Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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1978 - 1979 Member, Academic Council, Saint Mary's College of California
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1978 - 1979 Vice-President, Faculty, Saint Mary's College of California
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1977 - 1978 Member, January Term Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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1976 - 1977 President, Faculty, Saint Mary's College of California
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1974 - 1977 Member, Rank and Tenure Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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1975 - 1976 Member, Library Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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1974 - 1976 Vice-President, Faculty, Saint Mary's College of California
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1971 - 1975 Member, Academic Council, Saint Mary's College of California
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1973 - 1974 President, Faculty, Saint Mary's College of California
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1971 - 1972 Member, Collegiate Seminar Governing Board, Saint Mary's College of California
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1968 - 1969 Lecturer, San Francisco State University ‐ History
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1966 - 1967 Lecturer, San Jose State University ‐ History
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1966 - 1966 Dissertation Fellow, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
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1962 - 1962 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
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Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

1996 - 1996 DAAD Grant
DAAD
For Two Months' Research Trip to Germany
1994 - 1994 Summer Seminar Stipend
National Endowment for Humanities
1970 - 1970 Summer Stipend
National Endowment for Humanities
1965 - 1965 DAAD Grant
DAAD
For dissertation research
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Professional Service and Affiliations

Present Member, American Association of University Professors
Present Member, American Historical Association
Present Member, German Studies Association
Present Member, Institute for Historical Study
Present Member, Women in German
2004 - 2006 President, German Studies Association
2002 - 2004 Vice President, German Studies Association
2000 Nominations Committee, German Studies Association
1995 - 1997 Member, Executive Committee, German Studies Association
1995 Member, Book Prize Committee, German Studies Association
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Honors and Awards

  • Visiting Scholar - Berlin Historical Commission (1981)
  • Professor of the Year - Saint Mary's College (1998)
  • DeSales Perez Award for Excellence in Teaching Collegiate Seminar - Saint Mary's College (1998)
  • Jean Baptiste De la Salle Award - (1988) given annually by the Saint Mary's College Alumni Association "...in recognition for teaching excellence."
  • Phi Beta Kappa - University of California at Berkeley (1961)

Courses

  • Collegiate Seminar 122: Renaissance, 17th and 18th Century Thought
  • Collegiate Seminar 123: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Thought
  • Collegiate Seminar 20/120: Greek Thought
  • Collegiate Seminar 21/121: Roman/Early Christian/Medieval Thought
  • History 100: Eastern Europe Since 1945: The Rise and Fall of Stalinism
  • History 103: Experience of World War I in Film, Art, Literature
  • History 105: Modern and Postmodern Approaches to History
  • History 110: European Revolutions: 1789 - 1989
  • History 116: Nineteenth Century Europe
  • History 117: Twentieth Century Europe
  • History 118: History Through Fiction: 19th Century Europe
  • History 119: Germany: From the Third Reich to 1998
  • History 4: Western Civilization
  • History 5: Western Civilization
  • JANUARY TERM: Bullock's Hitler/Stalin
  • JANUARY TERM: Experience of World War I in Film
  • JANUARY TERM: Rewriting Orwell in the light of 1989
  • January Term: The Sixties Through Film

Education

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1968 Ph.D. History, Stanford University
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1963 M. A. History, Stanford University
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1962 B. A. History, University of California - Berkeley
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Links

Contact Information

Office: Galileo Hall 314
Phone: (925) 631-4857
Fax: (925) 631-4490
Mail: P. O. Box 4730

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Honors, Awards, & Grants (10)

Presentations (15)