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                             College of the Canyons

                                                  Department of History

                                  

Sheryl Nomelli

 

Office Hours:                By Appointment

Office:                            I-312

Email:                            snomelli@yahoo.com

Office Phone:                (661) 259-3540 

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I fell in love with history as a re-entry student attending a small community college, exposed to excellent history professors for the first time in my life.  My academic goals soon changed to share my love for history and make it come alive to students through exposure to fascinating autobiographies, films, class discussions, and pulling it all together with interesting lectures.  The history of a nation is really the history of the people who lived in that nation and the study of those people make history incredibly captivating.

 


Sarah Chloe Burns

 

Sarah Chloe Burns

 

 

 

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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. 

 

 

 


Frank Chartrand

 

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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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 Kathleen Hitt

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Email:                     kathleen.hitt@canyons.edu

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Classes taught:         History 101, 102, 161

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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

 


Stephen Branch

 

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Office:                       HSLH-328    

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Office Phone:             (661) 259-3540  ext. 3064   

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Classes taught:             US History, Western Civilization, World History, American Indian History

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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.

 


Gilli Halaby

 

Office Hours:                By appointment only

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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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