Educational Background:
- Bachelor of Arts, History; Teaching Credential, Social Science, University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelor of Arts, History, Cal State University, Sacramento
Biography
Gary Noy taught history at Sierra College from 1987 – 2007. Currently, he is the Founder and Director of the Sierra College Center for Sierra Nevada Studies and Coordinator of the Sierra Nevada Virtual Museum.
Gary has published more than a dozen major magazine articles; three books, including the best-selling Distant Horizon: Documents from the 19th Century American West (University of Nebraska Press, 1999); and, for four years, he wrote a monthly newspaper column on Sierra Nevada History for the Grass Valley Union.
Gary’s Distant Horizon has been selected as a featured book at the New York Public Library and at the National Park Service’s Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (the “Gateway Arch”) in St. Louis, Missouri.
He was named Sierra College Part-Time Instructor of the Year for 2005. In 2006, the Oregon-California Trails Association, a national historical organization, named Gary “Outstanding Educator of the Year.”
Quick Facts:
- Preferred size of audience: any size group
- Availability: weekdays
- Booking Period: 1 week
- The best way to contact him: Contact via e-mail at gnoy@sierracollege.edu or call (916) 781-7184