Table of Contents: Community College Historians in the United States

About the Contributors

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Constance M. Carroll is president of San Diego Mesa College, the largest of three colleges in the San Diego community college district. She serves as chair of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. She is a members of the board of directors of the Community College Humanities Association. She holds a Ph.D. in classics from the University of Pittsburgh and regularly teaches classes and offers lectures in the humanities.

Evelyn Edson, professor of history at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been teaching at the community college level since 1972. She received her undergraduate education at Swarthmore College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her specialty--other than the history of western civilization--is medieval cartography. Her most recent publication is Mapping Time and Space: How Medieval Mapmakers Viewed Their World (British Library, 1997).

Nadine Ishitani Hata, vice president of academic affairs and professor of history, has been at El Camino Community College in Torrance, California since 1970. Her degrees are from the University of Hawaii (B.A.), University of Michigan (M.A.), and the University of Southern California (Ph.D.). She has served on AHA's Teaching Division, has chaired OAH's Ad Hoc Task Force on Community Colleges, and is currently chair of OAH's Committee on Community Colleges and a member of AHA's Council. A former chair of the California State Historical Resources Commission and vice-chair of the California Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, her publications include The Historic Preservation Movement in California, 1940-1976 (California Department of Parks and Recreation, 1992) as well as coauthored monographs and articles on Japanese America and Asian America.

Judith Jeffrey Howard is a senior program office in the Division of Research and Education Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has a Ph.D. in modern Italian history and has written on feminism and the woman question in nineteenth-century Italy as well as on the humanities in two-year colleges. Prior to joining the NEH staff, she taught history at the high school, community college, and university levels.

James J. Lorence is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Marathon County. He received his Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has served on AHA's Teaching Division and has been director of the Marathon County History Teaching Alliance since 1986. His publications include Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland (State University of New York Press, 1996), Gerald J. Boileau and the Progressive-Farmer-Labor Coalition: Politics of the New Deal (University of Missouri Press, 1996), and Organized Business and the Myth of the China Market: The American Asiatic Association, 1898-1941 (American Philosophical Society, 1981).

David B. Mock teaches history at Tallahassee Community College. He earned his Ph.D. in history from Florida State University. He has edited Legacy of the West: Readings in the History of Western Civilization (Harper Collins, 1996) and History and Public Policy (Krieger, 1991); coedited the Dictionary of Obituaries of Modern British Radicals (Harvester-Wheatsheaf, Simon & Schuster, 1989); and coauthored Educating Hand and Mind: A History of Vocational Education in Florida (University Press of America, 1984). He has served as president of the Florida Conference of Historians and has been inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa Hall of Honor for Advisors.

George Stevens in professor of history and department chair at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He received his M.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and worked on doctoral courses under Herbert Gutman at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. His publications include "Robert Caro's Moses: A Historian's Critique" in Robert Moses: Single-Minded Genius (Heart of Lakes Publishing, 1989, edited by Joann P. Krieg), and American Experiences: Readings in Social and Political History (Simon & Schuster, 1993, coedited with Christopher Robbins).

David S. Trask received his undergraduate education at the University of the South and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in American history from the University of Nebraska. He completed a three-year term on AHA's Council and Teaching Division in January 1998. Currently the contributing editor for the teaching column of Perspectives, AHA's newsletter, he has written on teaching issues, the populist movement, and most recently, on the American experience in Vietnam as an Indian War. He teaches history at Guilford Technical Community College in Jamestown, North Carolina. He is author of "The Indian Wars and the Vietnam War" in Philip West and others, America's Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to the Study of History and Memory (M.E. Sharpe, 1998).

Charles A. Zappia is professor of history and chair of the social sciences department at San Diego Mesa College. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Berkeley. He has served as chief negotiator for Local 1931 of the American Federation of Teachers, is the author of "History of Labor" in Frank Cavioli and others, Italian American History and Culture (Garland Press, forthcoming), and is currently writing a history of Italian immigrant unionists in New York City's garment trades from 1900 to 1950. He is a past member of OAH's Ad Hoc Task Force on Community Colleges and currently serves on OAH's Teaching Committee, which he will chair in 1999.