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DR. ALLISON VARZALLY
American History
After completing her undergraduate education at Williams College in Massachusetts, Allison Varzally followed the sun and her interest in the histories of the American West, Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration to California where she earned a PhD from UCLA in 2002. She taught at a small liberal arts college in the middle of Pennsylvania’s Amish country before accepting a postdoctoral fellowship in California Studies at the University of California Humanities Research Institute. With great excitement, Professor Varzally has joined the history faculty at Fullerton. She specializes in the social, cultural, and political history of intercultural relations in 20th century California. Her manuscript, Coloring Outside Ethnic Lines: Making a Non-White America in California, 1925-1955 will be published by the University of California Press in 2007. In addition to general courses on California and the United States, she hopes to offer classes about the histories of mixed race peoples, youth cultures, the Immigrants’ West, and comparative American regions. When not in the classroom, the office, or the freeways between Los Angeles and Orange County, you can find her at the beach.
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