AMY ESSINGTON Cal Poly Pomona History Department 3801 W. Temple Avenue Pomona, CA 91768 909-869-3588 [email protected]
EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy, History Claremont Graduate University Dissertation: “Segregation, Race, and Baseball in the Pacific Coast States: The Desegregation of the Pacific Coast League.”
Master of Arts, History California State University, Long Beach
Bachelor of Arts, History California State University, Long Beach
PUBLICATIONS- HISTORY ARTICLE “Baseball on the Pacific Coast: The Integration of the Pacific Coast League, 1948-1952.” Journal of the West 47:4 (Fall 2008), 49-59.
BOOK Race and Baseball in the West: The Integration of the Pacific Coast League (Under contact with University of Nebraska Press, Publication Spring 2018).
BOOK CHAPTER “‘She Loved Baseball’: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues.” Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, (McFarland, May 2001), 275-295.
BOOK REVIEWS Review of Decadent Los Angeles and the 1977-1978 Dodgers by Michael Fallon. Sports Literature Association (forthcoming)
Review of Blackguards and Red Stockings: A History of Baseball’s National Association, 1871- 1875 by William J. Ryczek. Journal of Sport History (forthcoming)
Review of A Call for Reform: The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson by Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi. Journal of the West (forthcoming)
Review of Greatness in the Shadows Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League by Douglas M. Branson. NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture (forthcoming)
Review of Taken from the Paradise Island: The Hoshida Family Story ed. by Heidi Kim. Journal of the American West (forthcoming).
Amy Essington Review of Mover and Shaker: Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, & Baseball's Westward Expansion by Andy McCue. Journal of Sport History (forthcoming)
Review of Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie’s Blues by Paul and Beth Garon. Journal of African American History (forthcoming)
Review of Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball by Adrian Burgos Jr. The Journal of African American History (forthcoming)
Review of The Negro in Sports by Edwin Henderson. Journal of Sport History 43, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 124-125.
Review of Frank Robinson: A Baseball Biography by John C. Skipper. Journal of Sport History 42, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 451-452.
Review of Leveling the Playing Field: The Story of the Syracuse 8 by David Marc. Sports Literature Association, http://www.uta.edu/english/sla/brarchive.html (February 16, 2016)
Review of The Chalmers Race: Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title Than Became a National Obsession by Rick Huhn. Journal of Sport History 42, no. 2 (Summer 2015): 256-257.
Review of A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America by Jennifer H. Lansbury. Journal of American History 102, no 1 (June 2015): 279-280.
Review of Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. Journal of the West 54, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 77.
Review of Bush League Boys: The Postwar Legends of Baseball in the Southwest by Toby Smith. Sports Literature Association, http://www.uta.edu/english/sla/brarchive.html (February 27, 2015).
Review of “If You Were Only White”: The Life of Leroy “Satchel” Paige, by Donald Spivey. The Journal of African American History 99, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 325-327.
Review of Pitching to the Pennant: The 1954 Cleveland Indians edited by Joseph Wancho. Sports Literature Association, http://www.uta.edu/english/sla/brarchive.html (August 21, 2014).
Review of Globetrotting: African American Athletes and Cold War Politics, by Damion L. Thomas. Pacific Historical Review 82, no. 4 (November 2013): 632-633.
Review of Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball by Lawrence Baldassaro. Sports Literature Association, http://www.uta.edu/english/sla/brarchive.html (July 30, 2013).
Review of Double No-Hit: Johnny Vander Meer’s Historic Night Under the Lights by James W. Johnson. Journal of Sport History 40, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 179-180.
Review of Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War by Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu. Pacific Historical Review 82, no. 2 (May 2013): 291- 292. 2 Amy Essington
Review of Sports and American Art: From Benjamin West to Andy Warhol by Allen Guttman. History: Reviews of New Books 41, no. 2 (February 2013): 55-56.
Review of Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports by David J. Leonard and C. Richard King, eds. Journal of Sport History 39, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 183-183.
Review of Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Six Minor Leaguers in Search of the Baseball Dream by Marty Dobrow. Journal of Sport History 38, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 501-502.
Review of The Most Famous Woman in Baseball: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues by Bob Luke. Journal of African American History 96, no. 4 (Fall 2011): 541-543.
Review of No Girls in the Clubhouse: The Exclusion of Women from Baseball by Marilyn Cohen Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 39, no. 5 (July/August 2010): 505-506.
Review of Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959 by Larry Moffi and Jonathan Kronstadt. Black Ball: A Negro Leagues Journal 1, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 113-115.
Review of Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy. The History Teacher 38, no. 1 (November 2004): 125-126.
Review of Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston by Howard Bryant. New England Quarterly LXXVII, no. 3 (September 2004): 503-505.
Review of Black Baseball’s National Showcase: The East-West All Star Game, 1933-1953 by Larry Lester. Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature XX, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 175-176.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES “Samuel C. Adams.” Entry for blackpast.org (May 2015).
“Robert C. Perry” and “Teddy B. Taylor.” Entries for blackpast.org (April 2015).
“Marcia Bernicat,” Howard Jeter,” and “Linda Thomas-Greenfield.” Entries for blackpast.org (February-March 2015).
“Indianapolis Clowns,” “Pittsburgh Crawfords,” “Curt Flood,” “Kenesaw Mountain Landis,” “Satchel Paige,” ‘Vin Scully,” and “Woody Strode.” American Sports: A History of Icons, Idols and Ideas (ABC-CLIO, May 2013).
“Rob Carew,” “Larry Doby,” “Josh Gibson,” “Rickey Henderson,” and Kenneth Washington.” Great Lives from History: African Americans (Salem Press, 2011).
“Pacific Coast League.” Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia, volume 2. Ed. Steven A. Riess. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2011). “Portland Beavers.” Entry for The Oregon Encyclopedia. http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/ (March 2010).
3 Amy Essington “Alice Coachman,” “Shani Davis,” “Vonetta Flowers,” “Charles W. Follis,” “Sarah E. Goode,” “Carl Lewis,” “Effa Manley,” “John Ritchey,” “Frank Robinson,” “John Baxter Taylor,” and “Moses Fleetwood Walker.” Entries for blackpast.org (November 2008-March 2009).
“Negro League Baseball” and “Brooklyn Dodgers.” Encyclopedia of Jim Crow (1880-1965). Nikki L.M. Brown and Barry M. Stentiford, eds. (Greenwood Press, September 2008).
“Effa Manley.” Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume V, The Modern Period, (Harvard University Press, 2004).
PUBLICATIONS- SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING Faculty Learning Community Planning Guide. With Milt Cox and Laurie Richlin. (Los Angeles, International Alliance of Teacher Scholars, 2012).
“Overview of Faculty Learning Communities.” With Laurie Richlin. Chap. in Building Faculty Learning Communities: New Directions on Teaching and Learning: Faculty Learning Communities. Laurie Richlin and Milton D. Cox, Co-Eds. 97 (April 2004), 25-39.
“Faculty Learning Communities to Prepare Future Faculty.” With Laurie Richlin. Chap. in Building Faculty Learning Communities: New Directions on Teaching and Learning: Faculty Learning Communities. Laurie Richlin and Milton D. Cox, Co-Eds. 97 (April 2004), 149-157.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON Instructor, History Department, Fall 2006 to present Courses Taught: “American Social History, 1750-1860” “American Social History, 1865-1930” “Historical Thinking” “Historical Writing” “Survey of American History” “Survey of American History with an Emphasis on Ethnic Minorities” “United States Since 1877” “World War II”
Instructor, American Studies Department, Fall 2002 to Summer 2005, various semesters Courses Taught: “American Character” “American Culture through Spectator Sports” “Women in American Society”
Completed, Teaching and Learning Academy Certificate Program, Faculty Development Center, 2002- 2003.
CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA Instructor, History Department, Fall 2015 Course Taught: “California History” “United States History”
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CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES Instructor, History Department, Winter 2015 to Fall 2015 Courses Taught: “U.S. Civilization I” “U.S. Civilization II”
LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE Instructor, Social Sciences Department Adjunct Assistant Professor, Fall 2014 to Spring 2015 Lecturer, Spring 2011 to Fall 2014 Courses Taught: “Political and Social History of the United States I” “Political and Social History of the United States II”
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS Instructor, History Department, Spring 2015 Course Taught: “History of the United States”
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH Instructor, History Department, Fall 2002 to Spring 2014 Courses Taught: “Early United States History” “Facts, Evidence, and Explanation” “History of Women in the United States to 1850” “History of Women in the United States since 1850” “Recent United States History”
CERRITOS COLLEGE Instructor, History Department, Spring 2012 Course Taught: “Political & Social History of the United States, since 1877”
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE Reviewer, United States Academic Decathlon, 2010-2016. Reader, AP U.S. History Exam, 2006. Internship (Paid), National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institute, Summer 2000. Internship (Paid), National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, New York, Summer 1999.
CONFERENCES- HISTORY Presenter. “Best Employment Practices Realized,” on panel “Looking Forward: Imagining the Future of Contingent Historians.” Paper to be presented at Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, 2017.
Presenter, “The West Coast Baseball Association: The Negro League of the West and Social Change.” Paper presented at the NINE Spring Training Conference, March 2016.
Roundtable Participant. “The Life of a Freeway Flyer: Adjuncting in Southern California.” Participant in “The Adjunct Problem: Collaborating for a Solution.” Roundtable at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2015.
Panel Chair. “African Americans in California.” Session at the Western History Association Conference, 2014.
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Roundtable Participant. “Defining Faculty Learning Communities.” Participant in “Faculty Learning Communities: A Roundtable.” Roundtable at the Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference, 2014.
Presenter. “Changing Society: The Desegregation of Professional Baseball.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Conference Annual Meeting, 2013.
Roundtable Participant. “The Conference Proposal and Presentation: Tips for Success.” Participant in “First Steps: Getting Started as History Professional.” Roundtable at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2013.
Presenter. “Changing the Historical Profession: Organizations of Women Historians in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.” Paper presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, 2012.
Presenter. “The Integration of the Pacific Coast League: A Social History of Race on the West Coast.” Paper presented at the Western Historical Association Conference, 2011.
Panel Chair. “Perspectives from the Ground: A Roundtable on Finding Jobs in and out of Academia.” Session at the Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference, Huntington Library, 2011.
Panel Chair. “History and Technology In and Out of the Classroom.” Session at the Coordinating Council for Women in History Affiliate Session, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2011.
Presenter. “Integrating the Pacific Coast League: A Social History of Integration” Paper presented at the Society for American Baseball Research Convention, 2011.
Presenter. “The West Coast Baseball Association: The Negro Leagues of the West and the Social Change of World War II.” Paper presented at the North American Society for Sport History Annual Conference, 2011.
Presenter. “Crossing Borders to Play Baseball: Pacific Coast League Players in Latin American Leagues.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Conference Annual Meeting, 2010.
Presenter. “The Creation of Historical Knowledge: Individual and Institutional Memory of the WAWH.” Paper presented at the Western Association of Women Historians Affiliate Session, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2010.
Roundtable Participant. “Preparing a Conference Proposal.” Participant in “Making the Most of the Conference Experience: A Roundtable.” Roundtable at the Western Association of Women Historians Conference, 2009.
Presenter. “The Oakland Larks of the West Coast Baseball Association: The Negro Leagues Move West.” Paper presented at the Association of the Study of African-American Life and History Convention, 2008. 6 Amy Essington
Roundtable Participant. “Preparing a Conference Proposal.” Participant in “How to Navigate the Conference Process: A Roundtable.” Roundtable at the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Conference Annual Meeting, 2008.
Roundtable Participant. “What’s Next?: Policies for the Future.” Participant in “Work and Family: The Perspective from Graduate School Roundtable.” Roundtable at the Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, 2008.
Presenter. “Including African Americans and Latinos in the Pacific Coast League: West Coast Baseball Integrates.” Paper presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, 2008.
Presenter. “Beyond the Baseball Diamond: Racial Integration in Professional Basketball, Football, and Hockey.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2008.
Presenter. “African Americans and Latinos on the Baseball Diamond: The Process of Inclusion in the Pacific Coast League.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting, 2007.
Presenter. "The Integration of the Pacific Coast League: Telling the Story of the West's Minor League Baseball." Work-in-Progress Session. The Institute for Historical Study, Oakland, California, July 15, 2007.
Presenter. “Equality on the Baseball Diamond: Integrating the Pacific Coast League, 1948-1952.” Paper presented at the North American Society for Sport History Annual Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, May 25-28, 2007.
Presenter. “What’s Next: Policies on Graduate School Policies and Family Life.” Paper presented at the Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, May 3-6, 2007.
Presenter. “Integration in Northwest Baseball: The Portland Beavers and the Seattle Rainiers.” Paper presented at the 60th Annual Pacific Northwest History Conference, 2007.
Presenter. “Racial Equality on the Baseball Diamond and in American Society: The Integration of the Pacific Coast League, 1948-1952." Paper presented at the Research Seminar Series, History Department, California State University, Long Beach, 2007.
Presenter. “Integrating the Pacific Coast League: African Americans and Latinos on the Baseball Diamond." Paper presented at the Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation’s Fourth Annual Black History Conference, Seattle University, 2007.
Roundtable Participant, “Regional Women's History Organizations: Are They Still Relevant in the 21st Century? Two Generations Respond.” Roundtable at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2007.
Presenter. “Integration of the Pacific Coast League in the Pacific Northwest.” Paper presented at the Society for American Baseball Research, Northwest Chapter Fall Meeting. Seattle, Washington. November 11, 2006. 7 Amy Essington
Presenter. “Baseball Integrates America’s Finest City: Segregation in San Diego to 1948.” Paper presented at the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting, 2006.
Presenter. “Integrating the Pacific Northwest: Portland and Seattle of the Pacific Coast League.” Paper presented at the Society for American Baseball Research Conference, 2006.
Presenter. “They loved his talent, but they didn’t want him for a neighbor”: The Integration of the Pacific Coast League, 1948-1952.” Paper presented at the Western Association of Women Historians Conference, 2006.
Presenter. “John Ritchey in Chicago and other PCL Players in the Negro Leagues.” Paper Presented at the Eighth Annual Society for American Baseball Research Negro League Committee Conference, 2005.
Presenter. “The Cleveland Indians and San Diego Padres: A Relationship in Integration?” Paper presented at the Seventh Annual Society for American Baseball Research Negro League Committee Conference, 2004.
Presenter. “John Ritchey: A Local Player Integrates the Pacific Coast League.” Paper presented at the North American Society for Sport History Annual Conference, 2004.
Presenter. “Integration of the Pacific Coast League.” Paper presented at the Pacific Coast League Historical Society Reunion. Carson, California. May 15, 2004.
Presenter. “Negro Leaguers on the West Coast: The West Coast Baseball Association of 1946.” Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Society for American Baseball Research Negro League Committee Conference, 2003.
Presenter. “Women in Baseball: There’s No Place Like Home (Plate).” Paper presented at the Baseball Reliquary Event, Burbank Central Library Auditorium, Burbank, California, June 19, 2003.
Presenter. “July 21, 1959: Elijah “Pumpsie” Green Integrates the Red Sox.” Paper Presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, 2003.
Presenter. “Integrating Boston: African-Americans on the Field and in the Press Box.” Paper presented at the Society for American Baseball Research Convention, 2002.
Invited Speaker. Introduction of Satchel Paige at the Baseball Reliquary’s 2001 Induction to the Shine of the Eternals, Pasadena, California, July 29, 2001.
Presenter. “Questioning Negro Leaguers: A Look at Questionnaires in the Baseball Hall of Fame Library.” Paper Presented at the Third Annual Society for American Baseball Research Negro League Committee Conference, 2000.
Presenter. “‘By Her Own Radiant Light’: Effa Manley and Negro League Baseball.” Paper presented at the Western Association of Women Historians Conference, 2000.
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Presenter. “‘She Loved Baseball’: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues.” Paper presented at the Twelfth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2000.
CONFERENCES- SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING Presenter. “The Nuts and Bolts of Facilitating an FLC.” Lilly West—Conference on College Teaching. Pomona, California, 2008-2014.
Presenter. “Successfully Facilitating a Faculty Learning Community: Understanding Planning and Group Dynamics.” With Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens. Lilly Conference on College Teaching—National, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, November 15-19, 2006.
Presenter. “How Technology Can Improve Learning: Results from a Faculty Learning Community.” With Nancy Meyer-Adams. International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning. Palm Springs, California, October 19-21, 2006.
Presenter. “Facilitating a Faculty Learning Community: A How to Guide for Facilitators and Administrators.” With Paul Decker. Faculty Learning Community Conference. Claremont, California. June 24, 2006.
Presenter. “Teaching and Learning and Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs).” Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Claremont Graduate University, April 21, 2006.
Presenter. "Inquiry of How Technology Can Improve Learning: From a Faculty Learning Community.” With Margaret Costa and Marc Simỡes. Lilly West—Conference on College Teaching. Pomona, California, March 17-18, 2006.
Presenter. “The Arts, Crafts and Manners of Facilitating Faculty Learning Communities.” Lilly Conference on College Teaching—National, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, November 17-20, 2005.
Presenter. “Assessment: An FLC on Knowing How Students Learn.” With Mandy Bennett and Joy Kliewer. Lilly West—Conference on College Teaching. Pomona, California, March 18-19, 2005.
Presenter. “Assessment: Projects from a Faculty Learning Community.” Poster Session. With Mandy Bennett, Kerry Karukstis, and Joy Kliewer. Lilly West—Conference on College Teaching. Pomona, California, March 18-19, 2005.
Presenter. “Creating the Faculty Learning Community.” With Laurie Richlin. Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 4- 7, 2004.
Presenter. “Overview of Faculty Learning Communities: Results of a National Survey.” With Laurie Richlin. Second Annual International Conference on Learning Communities. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, June 18-19, 2004.
9 Amy Essington Presenter. “The Impact of FLCs at Claremont Graduate University and Consortium on Current and Future Faculty.” With Laurie Richlin. Second Annual International Conference on Learning Communities. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, June 18-19, 2004.
Presenter. “Development of the Faculty Learning Community ‘Teaching Women’s Studies Courses.’” With Bridget Bloomfield, Kristy Coleman, Sara Moslener, and Michèle Schlehofer-Sutton. Lilly West—Conference on College Teaching. Pomona, California, March 19-20, 2004.
Presenter. “Learning Communities for Preparing Future Faculty,” With Laurie Richlin, Cecilia Shore, and Melissa Lea, Lilly Conference on College Teaching—National, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, November 20-23, 2003.
INVITED SPEAKER Panelist. “What I Wish I’d Know Before Teaching My First Class.” Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Claremont Graduate University, April 21, 2006.
INSTITUTE LEADER Co-facilitator. Faculty Learning Community Developers' and Facilitators' Institute. With Milt Cox and Laurie Richlin. 2007-2014.
Co-facilitator. Faculty Learning Community Experienced Developers' and Facilitators' Institute. With Laurie Richlin. Claremont Graduate University, June 22-23, 2006.
Co-facilitator. Designing, Implementing, and Facilitating Faculty and Professional Learning Communities: Enhancing Teaching and Learning Culture on Your Campus. With Milton D. Cox, Mary Lou Holly, Alan Kalish, and Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens. Lilly Conference on College Teaching— National, 2005-2006.
ACADEMIC SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES
ARTICLE REVIEWER Article Reviewer, The History Teacher (February 2012) Article Reviewer, Blackball: A Journal of Negro Leagues (February 2010) Article Reviewer, Oral History Review (May 2007, November 2008, November 2009)
BLACK BALL: A JOURNAL OF THE NEGRO LEAGUES Editorial Board (Fall 2016-present)
ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES
COALITION FOR WESTERN WOMEN’S HISTORY Steering Committee Member (2011-2014)
COORDINATING COUNCIL FOR WOMEN IN HISTORY Membership Coordinator (2010-2013) Web Coordinator (2008- 2010) Newsletter Editor (2007-2008)
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HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Executive Director (March 2015-present)
SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN BASEBALL RESEARCH Jerry Malloy Negro Leagues Conference Leadership Committee (2004-2009) Jack Kavanaugh Memorial Youth Baseball Research Award Committee (2017-present)
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS Member, Committee on Part-Time, Adjunct, And Contingent Employment (2016-2020); Co- Chair (2016-2017)
WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS Executive Director (2006-2016) Treasurer (1999-2006)
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH Lecturer Representative, General Education Governing Committee (March 2007-May 2011) Lecturer Representative, Curriculum and Education Policies Council (September 2008-May 2010); Secretary 2009-2010) Lecturer Representative, Faculty Center for Professional Development Advisory Board (September 2007-May 2010) Grader, Writing Proficiency Exam (WPE) (Fall 2006-July 2014)
CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY Graduate Student Representative, Curriculum Committee, Intercollegiate Women's Studies of the Claremont Colleges (2003-2004)
LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE LACC Foundation, Scholarship Review Committee (2015)
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON Faculty Reviewer, Welebaethan Journal of History, History Department (2016)
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH, HISTORY DEPARTMENT Newsletter Committee (2008-2009)
CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY Web Page Maintenance, History Department (January 1999-August 2001) Student Coordinator, Thursday Forum Series, History Department (January 1999 to January 2000)
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GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND FELLOWSHIPS American Historical Association- Pacific Coast Branch Graduate Student Travel Award 2010. Graduate Student Council Individual Travel Grant, Claremont Graduate University. 1999-2000, 2002- 2003, 2004-2005, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009. 2010-2011. Conference Travel Grant, History Department, California State University, Long Beach. 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2007-2008. Roberta Park Student Travel Award, North American Society for Sport History, 2004, 2007. Conference Travel Grant, Western Association of Women Historians, 2001-2012. California State University Forgivable Loan/Doctoral Incentive Program (FLP) recipient. Internship Scholarship, Smithsonian Associate Seminar, Smithsonian Institution, May 2000. Claremont Graduate University for Smithsonian Internship Fellowship, Summer 2000. Southwest Oral History Association Grant, January 2000.
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