UCR Historian and Presidential Appointee Sworn In

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — UC Riverside history professor Catherine Allgor has been sworn in as a member of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation Board of Trustees and will serve a six-year term. Allgor was nominated by President Barack Obama in September 2011 and later confirmed by the U.S. Senate. She was sworn in at the foundation’s annual meeting June 27.

While in Washington, D.C., Allgor met with three American history teachers from Southern California who received fellowships from the foundation. They are Christoph Brown, from Poly High School in Riverside, and Dennis Bullock, from Providence High School in Burbank, who were named fellows in 2011; and Juan Resendez, from Irvine High School in Irvine, a 2012 fellow. The three were in Washington to attend the foundation’s four-week Summer Institute on the Constitution that began June 18. Among the guest speakers was U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg....