Address
Office: University Hall 411
Cal State University, Fullerton
American Studies
800 N. State College Blvd.
UH-313
Fullerton, CA. 92831
Sara Fingal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies
Bio / Description
North American Borderlands; Environmental History; California Culture
Degrees
PhD, Brown University
MA, Brown University
BA, Scripps College
Research Areas
Courses Regularly Taught
AMST350: Theories and Methods
AMST395: California Cultures
AMST401T: Proseminar in American Studies
AMST404: Americans and Nature
Recent Publications:
"Your House es Mi Casa: American Homebuyers in the Baja California Borderlands," Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2018: 17-41.
Recent Presentations/Lectures:
2018 "Community Leadership Through Coastal Environmental Education," Environmental Justice, Race, and Public Lands: A Symposium, University of Oregon, May 9-11
2018 "Removing the “Best American Beach”: Environmental Privilege on the Los Angeles Waterfront," American Society for Environmental History Conference, March 14-18
2018 "Alternative Histories of Southern California," Humanities and Social Sciences Lecture Series, CSUF, February 13
2017 "'Save the Beach for Me': Environmental Education and the Fight for Coastal Access, 1949-1987," American
Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 9-12
2017 "Water Pedagogy Across Disciplines: Can we analyze tap water as a historical object?," International Water
History Association Conference, June 14-17
2017 "Women, Water Resource Management, and the Environmental Movement in Southern California," Berkshire
Conference of Women Historians Conference, June 1-4
2017 Chair and Commentator on Panel: "Between the Wall and the Bridge: Comparing North American Border Environments,"
Association for Borderland Studies, April 12 - April 15
2017 "Latinos and Environmentalism, " Pushing the Boundaries of Environmental History, American Environmental
History Association Conference, March 29 - April 2
Office Hours
T/Th, 9:30-10:30am or by appointment
Current Course Schedule
AMST395: T/Th, 11:30am-12:45pm
AMST401T: T/Th, 2:30-3:45pm
