LAUREN HELENE COODLEY
Napa Valley College
History Department
2277 Napa Vallejo Highway
Napa, CA 94558
707/253-3157
lcoodley@campus.nvc.cc.ca.us

Personal Bio/Other Information:
Lauren H. Coodley is a tenured professor at Napa Valley College, teaching California History, History of American Women, American History, and Children's Literature. She has lectured extensively on interdisciplinary teaching and most recently participated in a planning session on California Studies held at De Anza College. She has received several Fund for Instructional Improvement Grants from the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges.

Public Lecture Topics:

• "Upton Sinclair: perspectives on biography", panelist at S.F. Public Library at Institute for Historical Research Colloquoy
• "Upton Sinclair: EPIC campaign", Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College and California Public History Conference, Sacramento
• "Upton Sinclair and Liberty Hill", Liberty Hill State History Monument, San Pedro
• "Upton Sinclair and Oil", Long Beach Historical Society, Long Beach

Public Projects:

• Moderator, California Council for the Humanities Chautauqua on Mariano Vallejo, Sonoma, l998
• Co-Organizer, Symposium on Spanish-American, Filipino-American War, Vallejo Historical Museum, l998
• Organizer and moderator, public cultural programs at Napa Valley College featuring Darryl Cherney on Headwaters Forest, Dorothy Bryant on Confessions of Madame Psyche, Robby Osman on Freedom Summer, l999
• Organizer, Writers Salute KPFA, Cultural event at Fort Mason, San Francisco, October l999

Recommendations:

Books:

• John Ahouse, Upton Sinclair: An Annotated Bibliography (l994)
• Dieter Herms, Upton Sinclair: Literature and Social Reform (l989)

Films:

• We Have a Plan by Lyn Goldfarb
• Liberty Hill Dedication produced by Coodley
• Men Who Built Liberty Ships by Maria Brooks
• The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter by Connie Field

Lauren Coodley has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 31-Jan-1999.