Office Hours
Fall 2025
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:00am - 10:30am
Sr 349
Education
Ed.D. in Higher Education, Organizational Leadership specialization, Rockhurst University
(In Progress)
Graduate Education Courses Loyola Marymount University Minor in Women’s, Sexuality,
and Gender Studies Oregon State University
M.A. in History, Specialization: United States, Best Thesis Honor California State
University, Long Beach
B.A. in History, Dean’s Honors University of California, Los Angeles
Bio
Michelle Stonis is an Assistant Professor of History who specializes in United States
history and United States women's history at Glendale Community College. Focusing
on project-based learning and teaching students how to think historically, Stonis
teaches students in a way that engages their curiosity and builds their critical thinking
skills. She encourages students to see history as more than places, dates, and names,
but rather as an interconnected web of stories that still have something important
to impart today. Stonis is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of GCC’s Pulitzer Center Campus
Consortium, which builds a bridge between the Journalism and History programs to train
students in international reporting on gender. She also manages GCC’s partnership
with the National Women’s History Museum. Her master’s thesis research on missionary
wives in 19th-century Hawai’i won the Best Thesis in the College of Liberal Arts at
California State University, Long Beach. Most recently, she was featured on The Remedial
Herstory podcast, discussing her research and its implications for US History survey
course pedagogy. She continues researching feminist topics related to body image and
representation, such as her credited work on the Disney+ animated short “Reflect.”
Stonis is a trained VET NET Ally, Autism Ally, and Safe Zone Ally. Her experience
with diverse student populations and various learning styles stems from her extensive
teaching experience at a California State University, several California community
colleges, and a private university. She lives in Long Beach with her husband, their
three daughters, and her newfound hobby of playing Call of Duty: World War II as a
Rosie the Riveter.
Selected Publications
Lisa Levenstein, They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the
Nineties, in Women and Social Movements, vol. 26, no. 2 (2022): https://search.alexanderstreet.com/wass/issue/1011731520.
“Missionaries,” in Nancy Quam-Wickham, Editor, A Day in the Life of an American Worker,
Volume 1 (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2018), 2019.
Lewis Perry, Civil Disobedience: An American Tradition, in The History Teacher 47,
no. 3 (May 2014): 467-468.
Mary Jo Ignoffo, Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle
Fortune, in Southern California Quarterly 93, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 351-353.
Let’s Connect
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Student's Oral History Interview on Feminism with Professor Stonis
