Dr. Jeff Charles
Chair, Associate Professor
jcharles@csusm.edu

Jeff Charles is Chair and Associate Professor of the History Department of California State University, San Marcos. He has taught history, first at the high school level, and then in colleges and universities, for over twenty years.

Colin Fisher
Associate Professor
colinf@sandiego.edu

Colin Fisher, Ph.D., conducts research in the field of U.S. environmental history. His work explores the relationship between “natural” spaces (particularly in cities) and the politics of class, ethnicity, nation, and race.

Michael Gonzalez
Associate Professor
michaelg@sandiego.edu

Michael Gonzalez earned his Ph.D. in U.S. History from UC Berkeley in 1993 and currently teaches at the University of San Diego. He is an authority on the history of provincial California. He also directs the History M.A. program at USD.

Michael Henderson
Professor
mhenderson@jhu.edu

Michael Henderson is a part-time lecturer in the History Department at California State University, San Marcos. Michael earned his undergraduate degree at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and did his graduate work at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. He has taught courses in: United States History to 1865; American Intellectual History; The Politics and Practice of History; The American City Since 1865; and Civil Rights and Multiculturalism in Postwar America.

Katherine Hijar
Associate Professor
khijar@csusm.edu

Katherine Hijar is the Assistant Professor of History at California State University, San Marcos. In her research and teaching, Dr. Hijar specializes in U.S. social and cultural history, and early mass media.

Dr. Anne Lombard
Associate Professor
alombard@csusm.edu

Anne Lombard earned her Ph.D. in history from UCLA, and also has a JD degree from Columbia University School of Law. She teaches courses in the history of colonial America, the early modern Atlantic world, the American Revolution and the early republic, the Constitution, and gender and sexuality.

Dr. Carmen Nava
Associate Professor
cnava@csusm.edu

Carmen Nava joined the History Department at California State University, San Marcos in 1996. She is now Associate Professor of Latin American History and teaches courses in Latin American history, world history, and Chicano/Latino history. Her book manuscript “Women, Gender, and Identity in Latin America” takes a regional approach to examining the theme of gender over several hundred years of history. She is also working on a project entitled “Commemorating Cesar E. Chavez: A Locus for Latino Identity,” in which she analyzes patterns of public memory in public art and memorial pieces dedicated to the labor leader. She was born in Los Angeles, California, and has lived in Mexico, Spain, and Brazil. She and her family live in Escondido, California.

Dr. Patty Seleski
Professor
pseleski@csusm.edu

Professor Patty Seleski has been at CSUSM since 1990. She is an International and European historian who teaches courses on peace, war, human rights, and modern European history. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and also holds degrees from Oxford University and Georgetown University.

Dr. Kimber Quinney
Professor
kquinney@csusm.edu

Kim Quinney is a full-time Lecturer in the History Department at California State University, San Marcos, where she teaches courses on immigration, U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, and modern Europe. She has an M.A. in International Relations from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., and a Ph.D. in History from UC Santa Barbara. In addition to her academic work, she works closely with a local nonprofit organization to preserve the history of San Diego’s Little Italy.

Abby Reisman
Professor
areisman@stanford.edu

Abby Reisman is currently Director of San Francisco Unified School District’s “Reading Like a Historian” – a 5-school experiment combining historical thinking skills with adolescent literacy. She has worked with teachers (including pre-service teachers in Stanford’s MAT program) to design history curricula that address reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Jill Watts
Professor
jwatts@csusm.edu

Jill Watts is a professor of history at California State University, San Marcos. She received a B.A. in History from Revelle College at the University of California, San Diego and an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. She came to California State University, San Marcos after teaching at Weber State University, UCLA, and Santa Monica College. She has also taught at Cornell University where she received a fellowship from the Society for the Humanities. She is the author of three books: God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Diving Story, Mae West: An Icon in Black and White, and Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood. Her research interests include United States social and cultural history, African-American history, film history, and biography. Currently, she is the Coordinator of the Film Studies minor and the History Department's Graduate Studies program.

Keri Doggett
Constitutional Rights Foundation
keri@crf-usa.org

Keri Doggett is the Director of Program Development for the Constitutional Rights Foundation (CRF) in Los Angeles, California. Currently, Keri works with CRF’s Vice President, Marshall Croddy, to design and develop funding for new CRF programming, as well as providing leadership for existing programs.

Stacey Perez
Teacher, Coastal Academy Charter School
sperez@tcacharter.org

Stacey Perez, Ed.D., is an 8th grade and leadership teacher at Coastal Academy Charter School in Oceanside. She received her Doctorate of Education in Teacher Leadership in 2010 from Walden University. She was recently initiated into the National Honor Society of Kappa Delta Pi. In addition, she was the recipient of the Teach It Forward Award from the University of Phoenix, which is where she received her Master of Arts in Education. Stacey participated in the 2009 – 2010 Perspectives on the American Experience program, where she focused on developing an Oral History project featuring real-life heroes. She has a tremendous passion for education and places a high standard on learning. Her philosophy of education is to inspire and empower students while helping them achieve their goals, and to create an environment where academic success is achievable.

Marinta Skupin
Director of Education
Marinta.skupin@sandiegohistory.org

Marinta Skupin is a museum director who has worked with a variety of audiences in an informal education environment. Prior to assuming her current position as Director of Education at the San Diego History Center, she was Manager of K-12 and Family Programs at the Louisiana State Museum, and before that, Education Programs Coordinator at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her experience includes all aspects of the development, implementation and evaluation of school and public programs based on museum content.

Darci Tucker
American Lives: History Brought to Life
darci@americanlives.net

Playwright, actress, and storyteller, Darci Tucker is a graduate of UCLA. She co-founded AmericanLives in 2000 out of a desire to bring history to life for students nationwide. Darci brings to her organization many years of history teaching experience at Colonial Williamsburg. Darci spends most of the school year performing her original, one-woman play, “Revolutionary Women” in schools across the nation.