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Job Title:
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Associate Professor of History
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Department
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History and Political Science
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Key Responsibilities:
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I am one of the 2 American history professors here at APU, located
in sunny southern California. I teach the range of U.S. history
courses, including surveys and upper-division.
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Current Courses (Fall 2006)
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History 338: History of California
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History 330: History of Religion in America
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History 342: History of the American West
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Poli 496: Senior Seminar
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HDev 401: Humans and History
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Research Projects
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Preparing
two articles--one about the religious ideals of pre-Civil War German
and Irish immigrants who lived in Pennsylvania and one about their
labor experiences
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I traveled extensively during my spring- semester sabbatical to
build a database of letters and diaries for nineteenth-century Irish
immigrants who settled in the American West.
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Faculty Governance
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Serving as member of Faculty Evaluation Committee. This
committee's task is to oversee the implementation and adjustment of
our new faculty evaluation system for extended contracts and
promotions.
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Presidential Signatures Project. Working to create a
comprehensive program to highlight a complete set of presidential
signatures donated recently to our Special Collections
department. Initial orientation for the project is the fifth
grade.
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