Section 3
History Instructional Faculty

           

 

Courses

Name

Highest degree in subject area and specialty areas

Professional Development

Knowledge of K-12 framework and assessment

Special awards and recognition

P-12 collaborative work

Hist 313

Rochelle Balkam

M.A. Michigan history

 

MEAP Reviewer for MDE, taught benchmarks as social studies teacher

 

Work with Ypsilanti and other school districts on MEAP achievement issues.

Hist 101, Hist 102,

Hist 103

His 309

His 310

George Cassar

Ph.D.

European history

 

Publications include: The Forgotten Front: The British Campaign in Italy, 1917-1918, 1999.

 

Distinguished Faculty Award for Research

 

Hist 123, Hist 124,

Hist 305

 

Kathleen Chamberlain

Ph.D.

Native American History

Publications include: Under Sacred Ground: The History of Navajo Oil, 1922-1982.  University of New Mexico Press, September 2000.

Participant, Teacher Quality Improvement Grant, College of Education, EMU

 

Works with Native American Student Association on issues related to Native American education. National History Day Judge

Hist 101, Hist 102, Hist 103, Hist 109,

Hist 110,

Hist 412, Hist 427, Hist 456

 

Robert Citino

Ph.D

German History

Publications include: Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940.  (University Press of Kansas, 2002).

 

Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching

Advisor, Ypsilanti Public Schools.

Hist 101, Hist 102, Hist 103, Hist 109, Hist 110

Hist 412, Hist 427, Hist 456

Pamela Graves

Ph.D

British History

Publications include: "Labour Women" – Women in British Working Class Politics, 1918-1939, 1994.

 

 

Speaks to local high school classes on American Revolution.

Hist 101, Hist 102,

European History electives

Ronald Delph

Ph.D., Renaissance and Medieval History

Participant and Presenter, EMU Writing Across the Curriculum Summer Institute, 2000-2.

 

EMU Alumni award for teaching.

Outreach to community with History Honor Society.

Hist 102, Hist 327, Hist 328, Hist 330

Daryl Hafter

Ph.D. European History

Editor, European Women and Preindustrial Craft, 1995.

 

Distinguished Faculty Award for Research

Works with Society for History of Technology to improve instruction in the area of invention and society.

Hist 123, Hist 124

Jay Hester

M.A., Early National History

Participant, EMU Writing Across the Curriculum Summer Institute, 2002.

Participant, Teacher Quality Improvement Grant, College of Education, EMU

 

Works with Ypsilanti and Willow Run schools on student teacher quality. National History Day Judge

Hist 124, Hist 315, Hist 319

Mark Higbee

Ph.D. African-American History

Participant, EMU Diversifying the Curriculum program, 2001-2. Participant, EMU 21st century faculty group, Fall 2002.

 

 

 

Grant writing to improve American History Instruction

Hist 123, Hist 124,

Hist 424, Hist 425, Hist 426

Michael Homel

Ph.D. Urban History

Publications include: Unlocking City Hall: Exploring the History of Local Government and Politics, Krieger Publishing Co., 2001.

 

 

Works with local teachers as part of graduate classes.

Hist 481

Gary Kelly

M.A., History Methods, Oral History

Director, Oakland Schools Veterans Oral History Project.

Consultant, Novi Schools, taught benchmarks as social studies teacher. Teaches benchmarks in HIST 481 – The Teaching of Social Studies  class.

 

Works with the Library of Congress to preserve Oral History of Veterans. Works with Novi schools on technology issues.

Hist 123, Hist 124

Hist 380

Hist 300

Roger King

Ph.D. Colonial History

Publications include: Cape Cod and Plymouth Colony in the Seventeenth Century, 1994.

 

 

Works with local teachers as part of graduate classes.

Hist 109, Hist 110, His 441

Roger Long

Ph.D. Asian History

Publications include: The Man on the Spot: Essays on British Empire History, 1995

 

 

Works with local teachers as part of graduate classes.

Hist 123, Hist 124

Hist 385

Matthew Mason

Ph.D. Early National History

The Battle of the Slaveholding Liberators: Great Britain, the United States, and Slavery in the Early Nineteenth Century” William and Mary Quarterly, July 2002.

 

 

 

Works with local teachers as part of graduate classes.

Hist 123, Hist 124

John Mayernik

M.A., U.S. History

 

 

 

Works with the Library of Congress to preserve Oral History of Veterans.

Hist 102, Hist 103

Hist 343

 

Walter Moss

Ph.D, Russian History

Publications include: A History of Russia . 2 vols. McGraw-Hill, 1997

 

 

Works with local teachers as part of graduate classes.

Hist 102, Hist 103

 

Gersham Nelson

Ph.D. Latin American History

Publications include: The Life and Works of Rudolph James: Founder of Black Adventism in Canada, Outside of Western Civilization: A Collection of Readings, ed. (with Eira Patnaik; G. Aston Nelson Books, 1991) and “Building Outreach to Local Schools: The Experience of Eastern Michigan University's

Department of History”

Perspectives, Feb 2001.

 

 

Grant writing to improve American History Instruction

Hist 123, Hist 124, Hist 300

Hist 383

Richard Nation

Ph.D. Early National History

 

Participant, Teacher Quality Improvement Grant, College of Education, EMU

 

Works with Ypsilanti and Willow Run schools on student teacher quality.

Hist 123, Hist 124, Hist 300, Hist 481

Russell Olwell

Ph.D. History Education, Twentieth Century U.S. History

Publications include:

Building Outreach to Local Schools:

The Experience of

Eastern Michigan University's

Department of History,”

Perspectives, Feb 2001.

“Teaching Reconstruction in Middle School through Narrative” The Social Studies, Volume 90, Number 5, pages 205-208.

“John Kay’s Civil War: A Multimedia Internet Project for Middle School Social Studies,” Social Education, Volume 63, Number 3, April 1999, pages 134-139.

Teaches benchmarks in HIST 481 – The Teaching of Social Studies . Participant, Teacher Quality Improvement Grant, College of Education, EMU

 

Works with local and state historical organizations to improve Social Studies and History Instruction. Coordinates outreach efforts of the department.

Hist 102, Hist 103,

Hist 339

Janice Terry

Ph.D., Mideast