The Women of History
Meet Mrs. Chandler, Mrs. Gomez, Mrs. Dividu and Mrs. Fluegel Megan Howard Social Media Editor
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hat do history, law, education and psychology have in common? Our teachers. The female force of the history department includes Mrs. Chandler, Mrs. Dividu, Mrs. Fluegel, and Mrs. Gomez, who all teach a variety of history courses and love the study of people.
Mrs. Chandler in Guatemala
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Mrs. Chandler and Mrs. Gomez went to school for history and psychology - both subjects that study people. “In college, I started as a double major – psychology and history. I thought psychology would be my career, but those history classes had me hooked!” Mrs. Chandler said.
“I thought psychology would be my career, but those history classes had me hooked!” — Mrs. Chandler At UNF, Mrs. Chandler focused her studies on Latin American history, specifically in Bogota, Columbia. In Bogota, Mrs. Chandler went through the archives and “dug through the sources and read these letters that were written in the 1500s to try to piece together what these people’s lives were
like, how they navigated,” Mrs. Chandler explained. As well Mrs. Chandler is interested in a subject known as “historical silences.” A historical silence is information that was left out of history normally due to the fact that history is written by the winner. “That’s my favorite part – uncovering those silences. History isn’t finished. There is always more to uncover and to understand,” Mrs. Chandler recounted. For the last fifteen years Mrs. Chandler has taught a variety of world history classes. Now, she teaches Ancient World History and AP Comparative Government and Politics. “I really like AP Comparative. Ironically, what I like is that it’s not a history class. It gives students a chance to see what’s going on in the world right now, with a focus on 6 countries (China, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, and the United Kingdom) they might not otherwise study,” Mrs. Chandler said.
