Kathleen Noonan

Professor Kathleen Noonan, a native of Bayonne, New Jersey, received her B.A. in History and English from Georgetown University. She received her M.A. in Modern and Early Modern European history and a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Before coming to Sonoma State, Professor Noonan taught at Pomona College and Mills College.  In addition to her work as a historian, she has extensive experience as an archivist and manuscript curator at Georgetown University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and as a senior writer for university development at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  She lives in the East Bay with her husband and daughter and is active in education and civic groups in Contra Costa County and social action outreach in Pleasant Hill and San Francisco. She is currently Chair of the Sonoma State University History Department.