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About the Instructor:
Val Fassnight has a Bachelors of Arts with Honors from Wichita State University, focusing on ancient and medieval history. She has one year’s Master’s study under her belt as well and finishing it is on the bucket list. Her undergraduate honors thesis was on the Macedonian and Ptolemiac attempts at divine ascendance through their own hubris and later adoption of Egyptian culture.
She has a deep-seated interest in Alexander the Great and Macedonian studies. She also focuses on ancient Egypt, Greece, Roman Britain, Medieval Britain and Renaissance Italy. She fervently reads anything she can find on the Tudor dynasty.
She is a former historical reenactor with two museums, Old Cowtown Museum in Wichita, KS, and Pawnee Bill Museum and Buffalo Ranch in Pawnee, OK. Her family have been reenactors since she was a small child, focusing on the fur trade era of American history. She is also known to haunt Renaissance Faires and has served in a couple of courts.
History is more than a passion with Val. It’s a way of life.
