About Me
'We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are' - Anais Nin
Hello~ I'm Lori Clinchard, Humanities Department Chair and Faculty Director of the California History Center. I received my Ph.D. in Humanities, with a concentration in Transformative Learning and Change, from the California Institute of Integral Studies. My research interests are creativity, consciousness, and the pedagogy of experiential learning. Through FHDA’s Mellon Foundation-supported Center for Applied Humanities, I am developing an interview series to engage with artists and philosophers on the challenging questions arising out of the AI era.
I am a 4th generation Bay Area native, currently living in Santa Cruz. I have been teaching since 2001, and have been full-time at De Anza since 2005. I lived for 12 years in Taos, New Mexico, and 1 year in France, and I still enjoy speaking French and Spanish. I love the De Anza students, and I want my classes to give students opportunities to know themselves more deeply, to learn in ways that are meaningful to them, and to discover and respect what they already know.
My office is located in the California History Center: deanza.edu/califhistory/
“The true method of knowledge is experiment.” - William Blake, British poet and artist.
Classes I Teach
Winter 2025
| CRN | Course | Sec. | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30755 | HUMI 1 | 51Z | Creative Minds |
| 31584 | HUMI 1 | 54Z | Creative Minds |
| 37983 | HUMI 9 | 1MY | Introduction to Comparative Religion |
Fall 2024
| CRN | Course | Sec. | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26387 | HUMI 1 | 01S | Creative Minds |
| 01216 | HUMI 1 | 50Z | Creative Minds |
| 22238 | HUMI 1 | 55Z | Creative Minds |
| 28445 | HUMI 1H | 50Z | Creative Minds - HONORS |
Course Syllabi
Faculty Info
Lori Clinchard
FULL-TIME FACULTY
California History Center (CHC)
Education
B.A. Political Sci & French 1988; M.A. Cultural Anthro California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) 2000; Ph.D. Humanities CIIS 2006