CONTRIBUTORS

November 2000

Matthew T. Downey is director of the Hewit Institute for History and Social Science Education at the University of Northern Colorado, where he also directs the Interdisciplinary Studies Liberal Arts Program and coordinates elementary teacher education for the Arts and Science College. He previously directed the Clio Project at UC Berkeley and the Limited English Proficient/Sheltered History site of the California History-Social Science Project. Downey is the coauthor of The American Century: A History of the United States in Modern Times (1999).

Frederick D. Drake is assistant professor of history at Illinois State University in Normal. His specialties are history/social sciences education and the history of teaching history/social sciences.

Fritz Fischer is associate professor of history and history education at the University of Northern Colorado. He also serves as the coordinator for secondary education in the UNC history department and has helped to develop and implement the university's innovative partner school project for secondary education. Prior to receiving his doctorate in 1994 from Northwestern University, he taught middle school and high school history in California. He is the author of Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s (1998).

Lawrence W. McBride is professor of history at Illinois State University in Normal. His specialties are history/social sciences education and modern Irish history.

Donald Schwartz is professor of history and coordinator of the History/Social Science Credential Program at California State University, Long Beach. He also is project director of the CSULB site for the California History Project and a Practitioner Team Leader for the Annenberg Project. He received his Ph.D. from New York University and has coauthored The Road to Hell: A Survivor's Account of the Nazi Death March (1998) and Job: The Story of a Holocaust Survivor (1996).

John Shedd is part of the faculty at the State University of New York at Cortland, where he trains secondary social studies teachers, is the history department specialist in Britain and early modern Europe, and publishes works on seventeenth-century England and pedagogy. Previously, for his work as a history teacher at Oak Ridge High School in Tennessee, he received the Tennessee Humanities Council Outstanding Teacher Award.

Stephen M. Streeter recently joined the faculty at McMaster University where he teaches courses on the history of the United States and Latin American. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Connecticut, and is the author of Managing the Counterrevolution: The United States and Guatemala, 1954-1961.

Jim Thomson is Junior Division Winner of National History Day's 2000 student research paper competition. He wrote his paper last school year as part of a seventh grade history class taught by Carrie Lennox at the Breck School in Minneapolis. Jim has been interested in history for as long as he can remember. He also enjoys music and plays the trumpet and is an avid sports fan who plays lacrosse, baseball, and soccer.

Megan Tzeng is Senior Division Winner of National History Day's 2000 student research paper competition. She wrote the paper last school year as a junior at Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, Ohio, working with teacher Brian Ross. Her historical interests, which NHD has expanded, include World War II (especially the Pacific Theater), the American Civil War, and the American Revolution. She enjoys swimming, playing the violin, sewing and crocheting, and collecting autographs and stamps.

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