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CONTRIBUTORS
February 2007
Todd Estes earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Kentucky in 1995. He is an Associate Professor of History at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Estes is the author of The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006) and additional articles, essays, and book chapters. He has won a couple of teaching prizes, including the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistance as a graduate student at Kentucky and the 2001 Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award.
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Timothy D. Hall (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1991) is Chair of the Department of History and a Professor of Early American History and History Education at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. He has taught there since 1993. He has served as a board member of the Michigan Council for History Education and as a partner or leader in many professional development projects for teachers, including two Title II Teacher Improvement grants in addition to his Teaching American History grant. He has authored several books and articles, including Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World (Duke University Press, 1994) and, with T. H. Breen, Colonial America in an Atlantic World: A Story of Creative Interaction (Longman, 2004).
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Richard Ned Lebow is the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He is a fellow of the Centre of International Relations and Overseas Fellow at St. John's College, both at University of Cambridge. His most recent books are The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders (Cambridge, 2003) and Conflict, Community and Ethics (Routledge, 2006). The former won the Alexander L. George Award for the best book in political psychology. He is the co-editor of The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe, Unmaking the West: "What-If" Scenarios that Remake World History, and Social Inquiry and Political Knowledge, all currently in press.
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Andrew McMichael is an Assistant Professor of History at Western Kentucky University and received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2000. He has used video games in the classroom for several years, has presented several papers on the subject, and reviews video games for the local newspaper. McMichael is revising a manuscript about Spanish West Florida and is currently writing an article that puts slave punishment in the Americas into a transatlantic and medieval context.
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Stephen Mucher is an Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches twentieth-century American history and teaching methods. A former high school history teacher, Mucher is currently researching the relationship between subject matter and instructional methods in late nineteenth-century teacher education. Mucher has a B.A. from Taylor University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
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Russell Olwell is an Associate Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University, where he is director of the Gear Up project, a six-year effort to increase the high school graduation and college attendance rates of seventh-grade students from low-income schools.
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Rachel G. Ragland earned her Ed.D. from Teachers College of Columbia University in 1989 and is an Assistant Professor of Education at Lake Forest (IL) College. She teaches curriculum design, secondary instruction, social studies methods, fieldwork and student teaching seminars, and supervises interns and student teachers. She served as Assistant Academic Director for a Teaching American History grant project from 2001–2004, and is currently a co-editor for the H-NET Humanities and Social Sciences Online Discussion Network on Teaching American History (H-TAH).
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Renay Scott (Ph.D. Wayne State University, 1995) is the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Owens Community College in Toledo, Ohio. She currently teaches graduate education courses at Lourdes College. Previously, she chaired the Department of Teacher Education at Central Michigan University. She is the past president of the Michigan Council for the Social Studies and the chair for the House of Delegates Steering Committee for the National Council for the Social Studies. She has been involved in a number of professional development opportunities, including Title III grant and a Teaching American History grant. She has authored a number of articles. This fall, her American Revolution Super Simulation unit will be published through Scholastic Inc.
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Wilson J. Warren is an Associate Professor of History at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo where he teaches the history teaching methods course for secondary education students as well as courses in American history. In addition to two books on the meatpacking industry, he has published Teaching History in the Digital Classroom, co-authored with D. Antonio Cantu (M. E. Sharpe, 2003). He and D. Antonio Cantu co-edited History Education 101: The Past, Present, and Future of Teacher Preparation (forthcoming, Information Age Publishing, 2007).
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| Jessica Young earned her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. Since 1994, she has taught Advanced Placement European History and all levels of World History in the History Division of Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois. The Division won the Beveridge Family Teaching Prize in 2001. Young was awarded the World History Association Teaching Prize in 2003. She served on the Test Development Committee for Advanced Placement European History from 2003–2007. |
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