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Don Palm History Department and the International Studies Program |
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About |
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This is just a quick biography, so you can see some of the background for my approach to teaching. I have a B.A. in history from the University of Washington, but it took me six years to earn it, and along the way I accumulated units from Humboldt State University, U.C.L..A. and Cal Poly, Pomona. I also worked at several jobs while in school, including work in the L.A Times pressroom, work of several kinds for the Broadway department stores chain, and two years as a bank teller. With B.A. in hand, I started work in college publishing. I spent a little more than eight years in that business, including five years with Little, Brown and Company and three years with Mayfield Publishing Company. In that time I was a publishers representative, marketing manager, and sponsoring editor (for political science and for communication books). In 1987 I started graduate school. In 1989 I graduated with an M.A. with distinction from San Francisco State University. I majored in US with a minor in Latin American history. From there I went to the University of Texas at Austin, where I am ABD. My primary interests are cultural history, contemporary history and comparative history of the Americas--but really I am a generalist, and that is why I like the challenges of teaching survey courses. Sacramento
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