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Jan Jansen
Associate Lecturer, History
M-200, 735-4311

MA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
BS, Northern Michigan University

Jan Jansen joined the faculty in the fall, 2009 after teaching at UW-Fox Valley, the Wisconsin Career Academy and Goodman High School. She is an urban historian who has written non-fiction articles for Michigan's Hooks and Bullets Magazine along with her master's thesis titled Building a Garden City: Zion Illinois 1900 - 1960 based on the rich history of her native city and the surrounding Chicago-land area. Her novel Cistern Secrets was published in 2007 by AuthorHouse and is the compilation of people she has known or read about in her research in American social history. It is the story of the love of friends who form familial ties crossing gender, generation and race. Jansen is an avid outdoors enthusiast who enjoys fly-fishing and bird-hunting.

Fall 2009 Schedule