Mary Ann Irwin teaches history at San Francisco Bay Area colleges, including Diablo Valley College, Chabot College, Laney, San Francisco State University, and California State University, East Bay. Her published works include: Robert W. Cherny, Mary Ann Irwin, and Ann Marie Wilson, eds., Women and Politics: California from the Gold Rush to the Great Depression (University of Nebraska Press, October 2011); Richard B. Rice, William A. Bullough, Richard J. Orsi, and Mary Ann Irwin, The Elusive Eden: A New History of California (4th ed.) (McGraw-Hill, September, 2011); "Sex, War, and Community Service: The Battle for San Francisco's Jewish Community Center," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 32, Issue 1 (May 2011) (winner, National Coalition of Independent Scholars Eisenstein-DeLacy Award best article award); and "'The Air is Becoming Full of War:' Jewish San Francisco and World War I," Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 74, Issue 3 (August 2005).