College of the Canyons
Department of History
Office Hours:
Office: I-329
Email: brad.reynolds@canyons.edu / bradley.reynolds@csun.edu
Office Phone: 661-259-7800 ext. 3388
Webpage: http://www.bradreynolds1.pageout.net
Classes taught: History 101, 102, 111, 112, 130, 240
About:
Dr. Reynolds holds history degrees from both UCLA and USC. He has taught history for over thirty years at three universities and two community colleges. His passion, besides history, is traveling, and he has visited over eighty countries. He looks forward to discussing history and travel with you!
Office Hours: Fall
2006: M, W 2:30-3:30
Office: X-11
Email: connie.tripp@canyons.edu
Office Phone: (661) 362-5931 or (661) 259-7800 ext. 5931
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Classes taught: History 111, 112, 120, 210
About:
One of my goals is to try to make history come alive for myself and my students. In order to do this my husband and I have traveled around much of the U.S. visiting the sites where history happened. We have seen most of the Lewis and Clark Trail, the Alamo, Massachusetts and its sites, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia and N. Carolina, Gettysburg, and many other great places around the country.
Office Hours:
Office: Seco 202-D
Email: Michael.Dermody@canyons.edu
Office Phone: (661) 362.3354
Webpage:
Classes taught: 101, 102, 111, 112, 210, and Political Science
About:
I am the Academic Senate President, and am assigned as the Tenure Coordinator and the Field Station Coordinator.
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Email: sherrill.pennington@canyons.edu
Office Phone: 661-362-3717
Webpage:
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Professor Pennington borrowed professor Dermody's time machine and teleported back to ancient Qin China.
Office Hours: Tues/Thurs from 11 am to 12:30 pm
Office: I-312
Email: pete_virgadamo@yahoo.com
Office Phone: (661) 362-3315
Webpage: None
Classes taught: 111, 112
About:
Although raised in San Diego, my doctoral education and teaching have been in the Los Angeles area. I earned my doctorate in History from the University of Southern California [USC] in 1982, and at that time my academic specialty was in Colonial and Revolutionary America, which remains a strong interest. More recently my research has focused on warships and naval policy of the 20th century, and I hope to complete a book on that subject in 2010.
Office Hours: By Appointment
Office: I-312
Email: snomelli@yahoo.com
Office Phone: (661) 259-3540
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Email: scburns@bak.rr.com
Office Phone: (661) 397-8033
Webpage: http://www.history4sale.com
Classes taught: History 111, 112, 101, 102, 116, 130
About:
Sarah Chloe Burns is currently an Adjunct Professor of History with the College of the Canyons History Department in Santa Clarita, California, past Lecturer with the California State University Bakersfield's History Department, and past Adjunct Professor of History with Bakersfield College's History Department. While teaching at Bakersfield College, she created the only American Women's History survey course being taught at a California Community College at the time. Within Burns's areas of expertise in European History, Colonial and Modern American History, and Women's History, her concentration on gender and race relations has served as the impetus for her first novel: DAUGHTERS OF JUNO, CHRONICLE I; MATILDA OF ARGYLL (© 2004), from Ivy House Books, an imprint of Pentland Press (NC). The book was published in March of 2004, and was soon designated as one of "Bakersfield's Best" for 2004, by Russo's Bookstore. It is currently under publication in its second and revised edition as MATILDA OF ARGYLL, with University Press of the South
Sarah was a member of the Oxford Roundtable on Human Rights and Gender Discrimination April 30-May 4, 2003, where she presented her paper, “In The Shadow of the Conqueror; the Need to Embrace a New Hero Myth.” She also participated in the 2nd Annual International Conference on European History—Ancient to Modern—presented by the Athens Institute of Education, Athens, Greece December 29, 2004. The article she presented, “Mothering Mother Earth; the Path of the Nurturing Matriarch from Ancient Greece to the 19th Century Parisian Salon,” was published in the journal which proceeded from that Conference. She is currently preparing a book on international goddesses of the ancient world.
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Email: frank.chartrand@canyons.edu
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Webpage: http://www.canyons.edu/users/chartrandf/
Classes taught: History 101, 102, 111, 112, 115, 161, 198a, 198c, 212
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Email: kathleen.hitt@canyons.edu
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Classes taught: History 101, 102, 161
About:
Kathleen Hitt
earned her B.A. in history with a minor in Art History from Occidental in 1999.
In 2000 she studied the History and Architecture of
Oxford, at Merton College, Oxford, England through U.C. Berkeley. She received
her M.A. in History with honors from CSUN in 2004. Kathleen
teaches Western Civ I & II, U.S. History, and World History. She recently
published entries in ABC-CLIO World War II Encyclopedia on Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and other
World War II personages, with entries forthcoming on the American Revolution and
Medieval warfare. Kathleen received film credit as Film Researcher for
'Washington the Warrior' and 'Washington’s Generals' telecast on the History
Channel in 2006
Office Hours:
Office: HSLH-328
Email:
Office Phone: (661) 259-3540 ext. 3064
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Classes taught: US History, Western Civilization, World History, American Indian History
About:
Stephen Branch holds both a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of South Florida. Additionally, he has accumulated post graduate hours from the University of Florida and California State University, Fullerton, and a Graduate Certificate in Community College Teaching from the California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Office Hours: By Appointment
Office: I-312
Email: gregoryshrout@yahoo.com
Office Phone: (661) 259-3540 Cell (661) 993-6730
Webpage: History 101, History 102, History 170
Classes taught: History 101, 102, 111, 112, 115, 130, 150, 161, 170, 191, 192, and 193
About:
Gregory is a trained Sinologist who has worked at University campuses throughout Southern California for twenty years. In order to complete his research, he spent several years in China at the Shaanxi Normal University, in the city Xian, People’s Republic of China. In China, Gregory received an Honorary PH.D from Shaanxi Normal University for his research on the Chinese delegation at the Versailles Peace Conference of 1919. He worked with adult learners in accelerated classrooms teaching conversational English and American History and Culture to K-12 teachers. The courses were highly compressed with classes at night and on weekends. Gregory was very successful in adapting course work to accommodate different needs of the adult students who were from very diverse cultural backgrounds.
Published
Works: China and the Shantung controversy at the Versailles Peace Conference, 1919. Published 1998
GOLD DENOUNCES FIAT SYSTEM
Daily Reckoning. Published 2007
Office Hours: By appointment only
Office:
Email: gilli.halaby@gmail.com
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Webpage: http://www.canyons.edu/departments/HISTORY/halaby%20webpage.htm
Classes taught: World History 161
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Office Hours: M, W 11:00-2:00; T, Th 2:00-5:00, and by appointment
Office: VILL 114
Email: Brent.Riffel@Canyons.edu
Office Phone: (661) 259-7800 x.3151
Webpage: http://canyonshistory.blogspot.com/
Classes taught: 102, 111, 130, 161
About:
Dr. Riffel specializes in recent American history, social and cultural history, and the history of the Middle East. He is entirely too concerned with the Chicago Cubs.
Office Hours:
Office: I-312
Email: gregg.frazer@canyons.edu
Office Phone: (661) 259-3540 ext. 3132
Webpage:
Classes taught: History 111
About:
Dr. Frazer has a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University, and an MA from California State University at Los Angeles. The focus of his dissertation and his continuing research is the founding of America. He has taught history at the collegiate level for twenty years. Dr. Frazer is a part-time high school football coach at Oaks Christian High School. He enjoys strategic board and computer games and listening to jazz or classical music. He is a loyal fan of the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Royals.
