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About Monica Fitzgerald

Positions

2017 - Present Member, Education Major Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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2016 - Present Co-Director, Faculty Development, Saint Mary's College of California
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2016 - Present Concentrated Faculty Advisor, Saint Mary's College of California
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2016 - Present Faculty Advisor, Young Democrats of Saint Mary’s College Student Club, Saint Mary's College of California
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2016 - Present Member, CCIE Subcommittee on ODMI, Saint Mary's College of California
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2015 - Present New Faculty Mentor, Saint Mary's College of California
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2014 - Present Creator, Executive Board Member, Faculty Women’s Group, Saint Mary's College of California
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2013 - Present Associate Professor, Saint Mary's College of California
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2012 - Present Member, First Year Advising Task Force, Saint Mary's College of California
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2011 - Present Member, Hiring for Mission President's Task Force, Saint Mary's College of California
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2011 - Present Member, Women's Forum Planning Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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2011 - Present Member, Women's and Gender Studies Advisory Board, Saint Mary's College of California
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2010 - Present Member, Advisory Board JFK University Global Liberal Arts Program, Saint Mary's College of California
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2010 - Present Member, Women of SMC, Saint Mary's College of California
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2010 - Present Member, Women's Resource Center Advisory Board, Saint Mary's College of California
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2009 - Present Member, Liberal & Civic Studies Governing Board, Saint Mary's College of California
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Present Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Justice, Community and Leadership
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Present Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ Women's and Gender Studies
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Present Faculty Member, Saint Mary's College of California ‐ School of Liberal Arts
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2017 - 2018 Chair, Committee on Committees, Saint Mary's College of California
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2017 - 2018 Vice-Chair, Academic Senate, Saint Mary's College of California
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2016 - 2017 Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor in JCL, Saint Mary's College of California
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2016 - 2017 Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor, KSOE Environmental Literacy, Saint Mary's College of California
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2016 - 2017 Member, Senate Task Force on Gender Bias in Course Evaluations, Saint Mary's College of California
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2016 - 2016 Chair, Search Committee for Administrative Assistant for JCL, Saint Mary's College of California
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2015 - 2015 Chair, TFT Celebration Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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2015 - 2015 Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Leadership, KSOE, Saint Mary's College of California
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2014 - 2015 Member, Professional Development Learning Community on Engaged Teaching, Saint Mary's College of California
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2014 - 2015 Member, Seminar 104 Implementation Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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2014 - 2015 Member, Social Justice Coordinating Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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2014 - 2014 Member, Presidential Initiative Sub Committee on Mission, Saint Mary's College of California
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2010 - 2014 Member, Campus Facilities Planning Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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2010 - 2014 Member, Core Working Group for Community Engagement and Common Good, Saint Mary's College of California
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2010 - 2014 Member, Engaged Teaching Advisory Council, Saint Mary's College of California
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2010 - 2014 Member, Faculty Welfare Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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2009 - 2013 Assistant Professor, Saint Mary's College of California
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2010 - 2010 Member, History of the WRC Committee, Saint Mary's College of California
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2009 - 2010 Member, CILSA Faculty Development Cohort for Engaged Pedagogy, Saint Mary's College of California
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2009 - 2010 Member, Campus Facilities Planning Committee One Card Task Force, Saint Mary's College of California
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2007 - 2009 Instructor, University of the Pacific
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2006 - 2008 Instructor, Diablo Valley College
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2003 - 2008 Instructor, California State University, East Bay
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Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

2016 - Present Grant for Undergraduate Pathway for INSTEP
State of California
2017 - 2017 HSI Grant
Saint Mary's College of California
Role: Co-PI
2011 - 2011 FTG Mobile Computing Grant
Saint Mary's College of California
2011 - 2011 Faculty Technology Grant
Saint Mary's College of California
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2008 - Present Member, Bay Area Religious Seminar
1995 - Present Member, Bay Area Early American Seminar
2011 - 2011 Peer Reviewer, Routledge Press
2010 - 2011 Co-chair, Third Annual Women's Leadership Conference
2006 - 2007 Participant, Teaching American History
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Honors and Awards

  • Provost Faculty Scholarship Award, Saint Mary’s College, 2015-16
  • Early Career Award for Scholarship, Service and Teaching, Saint Mary’s College, 2014
  • Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize - Coordinating Council for Women in History (January 2013)

Courses

  • Janterm "The Making of a President"
  • Women in Politics
  • Democracy & Active Citizenship
  • History 17 US to 1877
  • JCL 10, "Introduction to Justice, Community, Leadership"
  • JCL 150 Advanced Leadership Theory
  • JCL 196 Senior Capstone
  • L&CS 121 Culture & Civic Responsibility
  • L&CS 122 Environmental Responsibility
  • L&CS 123 Modern Global Issues
  • Seminar 1
  • Seminar 110
  • Senior Assessment & Portfolio
  • The "Skirts" on Campus: Saint Mary's, Coeducation & the Women's Movement

Education

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2005 PhD, Early American History, University of California, Davis
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1996 MA, US History, California State University, East Bay
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1990 BA, Political Science, University of California - Berkeley
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Links

Contact Information

Office: FAH 240-09
Phone: 925-631-4605
Mail: P.O. Box 175

Email:

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