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Luciana C. de Oliveira (Ph.D., University of California, Davis) is Assistant Professor of literacy and language education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Purdue University, Indiana. Her research focuses on the development of academic literacy in the content areas and second-language writing. Prior to Purdue, Dr. de Oliveira was a linguistics researcher with the History Project at the University of California, Davis, one of seven California History-Social Science Projects, and worked with hundreds of teachers throughout the state to infuse discipline-specific literacy strategies into the history curriculum. She has published articles in Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Teaching Education, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes.

 
Kristine Dennehy received her Ph.D. in History from UCLA (2002) with a dissertation entitled "Memories of Colonial Korea in Postwar Japan." She has been teaching in the History Department at California State University, Fullerton since 2002, where she regularly teaches Modern World History, Japanese History, and other classes with a focus on nationalism and gender in Asia. Since 1999, Dennehy has been involved in research roundtables and teaching exchanges with members of the Comparative History/Comparative History Education Research Group, based in Tokyo, Japan.

 
Daniella K. Garran grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her B.A. from Connecticut College in 1994 with majors in History and Art History. She then attended Tufts University where she earned her M.A. in Education and her Certificate in Museum Studies. The main focus of her graduate research was Holocaust education. Garran has been a seventh grade social studies teacher at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School since 2003 and serves on the school's administrative team and Board of Trustees. Garran spends her summers as an assistant director of the Cape Cod Sea Camps where she met and married her husband, Jeff. They reside on Cape Cod with their golden retriever, Henley.

 
Daniel J. Greenberg (Ph.D., University of Washington) is Director of the Latin American Studies Program and a member of the Department of History of Pace University. His previous publications focus on the social and economic history of twentieth-century Argentina (especially the province of Tucumán), U.S.-Argentine relations, and modern Brazil. He is a two-time Fulbright and Albert Beveridge fellow. In 2002, he won a federal grant to strengthen Pace's LAS Program.

 
Daisy Martin earned her Ph.D. in History/Social Science Education from Stanford University in 2005. She currently co-directs the Stanford team creating http://www.historicalthinkingmatters.org and is a post-doctoral scholar in the Stanford School of Education. She has taught high school history in California public schools and History Methods courses at Stanford and UC Santa Cruz. Her other projects include creating classroom ready resources for teaching historical problems and researching teacher practices and conceptions relevant to this kind of teaching.

 
Laura Emerson Talamante earned her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2003 and is an Assistant Professor of History at CSU Dominguez Hills. Her research focuses on women and citizenship practices during the French Revolution in Marseille. She is currently directing student projects for a two-city exhibit in Los Angeles and Marseille on the theme of "Citizenship and Migration," sponsored by the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind. She has won several awards, including a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and the Mary Wollstonecraft Dissertation Award.

 
Sam Wineburg directs the Ph.D. program in History Education, the only program of its kind, at Stanford University's School of Education. He is the author of Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past.

 
Patrick Young is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, with specialization in Modern Europe and the history of consumer cultures.  


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