Complex sentence: She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Montana in 1979, and her doctorate in sociology from the University of Oregon in 1992, before serving as faculty at the University of California at Davis and UC Berkeley.
Split into simpler sentences: She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Montana in 1979, and her doctorate in sociology from the University of Oregon in 1992. She previously served as faculty at the University of California at Davis and UC Berkeley.