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Contributors
November 2006
William W. Cutler, III is professor of history at Temple University. He is the author of Parents and Schools: The 150-Year Struggle for Control in American Education (2000) and many other publications in American history and history education. Cutler was a Carnegie Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1999–2000.
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Mesut Duran is assistant professor of technology at the School of Education at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. He received his M.Ed. in microcomputer applications in education in 1996 and his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction in 2000 from Ohio University. Duran's teaching and research focus on technology and teacher education, and he specializes in and writes about technology integration in teacher-preparation programs. He was the principal investigator for the Michigan Teachers' Technology Education Network (MITTEN) project funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
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Keith A. Erekson is assistant editor of the Indiana Magazine of History and a doctoral candidate in history at Indiana University. He is managing editor of the HistSoTL website and newsletter.
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Stephen J. Frese is a senior at Marshalltown High School in Marshalltown, Iowa, where he is involved in band, basketball, soccer, Science Olympiad, National History Day, and the World Food Prize Youth Institute. He won the senior division gold medal for historical papers at the 2006 National History Day competition along with the grand prize Case Western Reserve University full-tuition scholarship. After the NHD competition in June, Stephen spent the rest of the summer as a Borlaug-Ruan intern at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing where he helped conduct genetic research on cotton plants. Stephen's winning NHD essay this year was his fifth entry in National History Day, and all of his papers have explored topics with Iowa connections. In 2002 Stephen won the junior division silver medal with his paper about child labor in Iowa coal mining communities. In 2003 he won the junior division gold with his paper about Aldo Leopold (featured in the November 2003 issue of The History Teacher). In 2004 he won the senior division gold medal with his paper about the relationship cultivated between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Iowa farmer Roswell Garst during the height of the Cold War (featured in the November 2004 issue of The History Teacher), and in 2005 he won the senior division gold with his paper about foreign language restrictions in Iowa during World War I (featured in the November 2005 issue of The History Teacher).
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Aaron Gillette is assistant professor of history at the University of Houston–Downtown. He received his Ph.D. in history from Binghampton University. Gillette is author of several articles and a book, Racial Theories in Fascist Italy (2002), on Italian eugenics and racial science. Forthcoming are monographies on the relationship of eugenics to early sociobiology and evolutionary psychology, as well as on eugenics in Latin countries. He is currently at work on a history of the idea of the Latin race, and also serves as list editor of H-Eugenics.
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Richard L. Hughes is assistant professor of history at Illinois State University. In addition to teaching a methods course in the history and social science education program, Hughes teaches modern United States history. His research interests include American social movements and the role of music in American political culture. After receiving his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Hughes taught high school in Durham, North Carolina and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas.
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David Pace is a fellow of the Carnegie Academy of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and a professor in the Indiana University–Bloomington history department. He was the 1994 recipient of the Frederick Bachman Lieber Award for Distinguished Teaching and the 2005 winner of the American Historical Association's Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award. Since 1998 he has served as the director of the Freshman Learning Project. In addition to his publications in modern French intellectual history, he is the coauthor of Studying for History (1987) and the coeditor of Decoding the Disciplines: Helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking (2004). He also has published articles on teaching and learning in the American Historical Review, College Teaching, The History Teacher, American Historical Association Perspectives, and To Improve the Academy.
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Alex Rankin is currently an eighth-grade student at Landon Middle School in Topeka, Kansas. His National History Day teacher was Dr. Jean Attebury.
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Sara Brooks Sundberg is assistant professor of history at the University of Central Missouri where she teaches the introductory survey course in U.S. history and upper division courses in early American history. She received her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. She is co-author of Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier: A Sourcebook for Canada and the United States (1983). She has also published articles on U.S. and Canadian women's history, including topics on nineteenth-century southern and mid-western women. Her research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning and the history classroom.
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| Julie Anne Taylor is an assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan-Dearborn where she teaches secondary social studies methods and multicultural education. She received her doctoral degree in history from the University of Cambridge. Taylor holds a professional clear teaching credential in social science from the state of California. She has authored articles in the fields of education and history, as well as the book, Muslims in Medieval Italy (2003). |
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