Claim: Sandra Noll Hammond moved to California in 1979, where she was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and later, a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Evidence: Thereafter, having moved to California in 1979, Hammond was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she taught dance history and ballet technique and earned a bachelor of arts degree in liberal studies. Later, as visiting lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, she taught dance history, Baroque dance technique, and early nineteenth-century ballet technique and was the leader of a ballet history research seminar at the graduate level.