Kate is a sixth grade teacher with the Davis Joint Unified School District, currently on leave as a Visiting Educator with the California History-Social Science Project. Kate has been involved with the History Project at UC Davis since 1991 and has served as a grade level coach for 5th and 6th grade teachers, Saturday Seminar Coordinator, and Marchand Room Librarian. Kate holds a BA in History from UC Davis, a Ryan Clear Multiple Subject Credential, a Single Subject Credential in Social Science (both from Mills College), and is a National Board Certified Teacher in Adolescent Social Science.
A former high school history and government teacher, Nancy McTygue has served as Executive Director of the California History-Social Science Project since 2005. McTygue also served as the Site Director for the CHSSP site at UC Davis from 2001 – 2007. Prior to her CHSSP appointments, she taught in the Vacaville school district for eleven years. McTygue holds a BA in Political Science, a Clear Ryan Single Subject Teaching Credential in Social Science and Government, and an MA in Education, Curriculum and Instruction, all from UC Davis.
Rosemary Renteria has served as Administrative Analyst of the California History-Social Science Project since July 2007. Prior to her CHSSP appointment, she served as Office Manager for the Learning Skills Center and had also served as an Admissions Advisor and Business Unit Assistant with the Undergraduate Admissions Office at UC Davis. She has been a part of the UC Davis community for the past 19 years. Renteria holds a BA in Radio/Television Broadcasting from CSU Fresno.
Beth Slutsky earned her Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), where she focused her study on the U.S. during the Cold War and Women’s history. Slutsky has teaching experience at both the secondary and post-secondary levels, and has worked extensively with teachers as part of the UC Davis CHSSP professional development team.
Alan S. Taylor serves as the Statewide Faculty Advisor for the CHSSP. Since 1994, Taylor has been a professor at UC Davis, where he teaches courses in early American history, the American West, and the history of Canada. His commitment to quality teaching, K-16, was recognized in 2002 when he won the UC Davis Award for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement and the Phi Beta Kappa, Northern California Association, Teaching Excellence Award. Taylor is the author of five books: Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820; William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early Republic; American Colonies; Writing Early American History, and The Divided Ground. William Cooper’s Town won the 1996 Pulitzer, Beveridge, and Bancroft Prizes. American Colonies won the 2001 Gold Medal for Non-Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. In 2007, The Divided Ground won the annual book prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and the Triennial Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati.
Tuyen Tran received her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) in 2007. Tran’s fields of interest are twentieth century United States history and Asian American history, particularly Southeast Asian American. She has taught at UC Berkeley, Saint Mary’s College, and Laney College. As a graduate student researcher and teacher coach, Tran worked with the UC Berkeley California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) site from 2002 - 2006. In addition, Tran authored “The Newly Uprooted: Southeast Asians in California,” a fifteen lesson history unit for Oakland Unified School District. She joined the CHSSP Statewide Office in August 2008.
California History - Social Science Project