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CONTRIBUTORS
November 2007
Bradley J. Burenheide is an assistant professor of education at Kansas State University, in the Department of Secondary Education. His research focuses upon historical cognition, history education, and innovative instructional methods. He holds a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Kansas State University.
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Alexander Maxwell completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has since taught at the University of Wales at Swansea, the University of Nevada at Reno, held postdoctoral fellowships at Erfurt University and the New Europe College in Bucharest, and recently joined the faculty at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He has published a series of pieces on nationalism in East-Central Europe, most specifically Slovakia and Hungary, and is presently working on sartorial nationalism.
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Taylor Sakamoto is currently a freshman at Buchanan High School in Clovis, California. She has been involved in National History Day since the fourth grade and has competed at the state level every year, earning various awards throughout the years. As an eighth grader in June 2007, Sakamoto's goal to reach Nationals was achieved with a historical paper based on the struggles and perserverance of Japanese women in America. Sakamoto enjoys topics about her heritage and culture.
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John A. Shedd has been a history professor at the State University of New York at Cortland since 1993, where he also works in the secondary social studies teacher-training program. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 1990, while teaching high school in Oak Ridge. He is a scholar of seventeenth-century Britain. Some of his publications have appeared in the Journal of British Studies, Historical Journal, and International Labor and Working Class History.
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Rebecca Smith is a junior at Bothell High School in Bothell, Washington. She keeps busy with a vigorous academic schedule, band, church activities, and horseback writing. Smith competed at National History Day for three years, placing thirteenth in the junior paper category in 2005 and first in the senior paper category in 2007. She plans to continue her involvement in National History Day by presenting at teacher workshops, assisting younger students, and judging at local competitions. Her previous papers have been published in Columbia magazine and on HistoryLink.org.
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Schaun Wheeler is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. He worked for five years as a teacher, mentor, and coordinator in the federal Upward Bound program. His research focuses on ways individuals choose to devote time and energy to large-scale groups. He previously examined how these choices are made in U.S. History classrooms. He is currently exploring issues of large-scale group affiliation and national identity in the Kyrgyz Republic.
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