(Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1964) taught history and education at Dominican University of California from 1981 to 2001. From 2001 to 2010 she taught Big History part-time. Currently she is resident Big Historian in Dominican’s Freshman Year Experience Big History Program. She serves on the board of the International Big History Association. She has written Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present (New Press, 2007 and 2012) and the first university textbook of Big History, with David Christian and Craig Benjamin, Big History: Between Nothing and Everything (McGraw-Hill, 2013).