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Sharon Salinger joined the commission in 2010 and is Dean of Undergraduate Education and Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.  Prior to accepting this position, she served as Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs and Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, where she received the Distinguished Teaching Award.  She holds an A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles.  Her research interests include Early America, social history and gender, and she is a member of the Organization of American Historians, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the American Historical Association, the West Coast Association of Women Historians, and the New England Historical and Genealogical Society.