Jessica Stern, Ph.D.
Dean, cOLLEGE OF Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr. Stern is a Professor of History and most recently served as Associate Dean of Student Relations for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSUF. In her capacity as Chair and Associate Dean, she has spearheaded curricular, retention, graduation, and post-graduation initiatives such as the interdisciplinary general education model, Explore Core; the first-year retention project, Leap into Sophomore Year; an augmented transfer student orientation design, Spring Transfers in Transition; and Passage to the Future which prepares HSS students for an array of careers. She serves on the Advisory Board for the CSU Student Success Network. She earned her BA in History from Reed College and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Her research examines the interactions between Native Americans and British settlers in the colonial period. She is the author of The Lives in Objects: Native American and British American Cultures of Production, Exchange, and Consumption in the Southeast, 1660-1763 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
