"Border Fence" by Tony Webster
About
Sara C. Fingal has dedicated her academic career to understanding how conflicts over democratic rights and land ownership reflected major shifts in American culture and society in the twentieth century. Her work to date ties together urban and rural history with an analysis of landscapes and ecosystems that transcend municipal, state, and national boundaries throughout North America. In addition to archival work in California, the Midwest, the East Coast, and Mexico, she has extensive experience preforming oral history interviews with former civil rights, Chicanx, and environmental activists, state politicians, California Coastal Commission officials, and Los Angeles Port employees.
Fingal was born and raised in Southern California. She earned her B.A. from Scripps College in 2005. After graduating with a major in history and a minor in environmental analysis, Fingal worked as a science and history educator at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, California. In 2006, she began graduate school at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island where she earned a M.A. in 2007 and a Ph.D. in 2012 in history. After graduation, Fingal lived in the Midwest for five years where she was a postdoctoral scholar at DePauw University, a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, and an assistant professor in the Lyman Briggs College and Department of History at Michigan State University. In August 2017, Fingal returned to Southern California to be an assistant professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Her current book manuscript is focused on conflicts over coastal zone management, property rights, and California culture along the Pacific coastline in the mid-twentieth century.
Fingal was born and raised in Southern California. She earned her B.A. from Scripps College in 2005. After graduating with a major in history and a minor in environmental analysis, Fingal worked as a science and history educator at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, California. In 2006, she began graduate school at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island where she earned a M.A. in 2007 and a Ph.D. in 2012 in history. After graduation, Fingal lived in the Midwest for five years where she was a postdoctoral scholar at DePauw University, a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, and an assistant professor in the Lyman Briggs College and Department of History at Michigan State University. In August 2017, Fingal returned to Southern California to be an assistant professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Her current book manuscript is focused on conflicts over coastal zone management, property rights, and California culture along the Pacific coastline in the mid-twentieth century.
