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Issue date: 10/13/04 Section: Features

Catherine Cardno joins Goucher´s History and Historic Preservation department.

"When I was learning about the history of American slavery, I wanted to know why the slaves did not revolt against their masters." This question led Catherine Cardno to become a history professor.

Cardno is a native of Southern California, where she lived most of her life. Cardno went to college in San Diego, and following her undergraduate studies, she went to England to get a Master's Degree. Catherine then pursued her Ph.D at The Johns Hopkins University. Goucher is also an ideal location for Cardno because of her familiarity with the area.

At Hopkins, Cardno taught a few classes. Then she found an opening in Goucher's History and Historical Preservation Department.

She now teaches several American History courses such as "American Society and Culture: 1607-1876" and the "History of the South."

Cardno is pleased with her decision to accept the position offered at Goucher. The small, intimate campus environment has made her experience at Goucher better. She enjoys the fact that the classes are small enough that they are easy to handle and that students enjoy learning about American history. "The students here at Goucher have wonderful insight into American History," she said.

Cardno hopes that her interest in American slavery will help her students to look at this time in history with an entire different perspective than they might have in the past.

Cardno lives in Germantown, Maryland with her husband, a production manager and cinematographer whom she met while studying in England, and her two-year-old daughter, Zoe.

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