As dean of undergraduate education, Salinger oversees campuswide programs and provides leadership in developing policies and programs affecting student retention, course offerings, academic advising and mentoring, and the campus climate for teaching and learning.


In addition to her role as dean, Salinger holds a professorship in the history department and continue her research, which focuses primarily in early American social history. She is the editor of a book and author of two more, including most recently Taverns and Drinking in Early America, which chronicles the ways in which the tavern preserved traditional privileges.


Salinger, who received her bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in history from UCLA, travels to the East Coast to conduct research in the summer and jokes that she times her trips with garbage strikes and high humidity. She enjoys playing the bassoon and resides in University Hills.



- Excerpt from Today@UCI