Social Studies Secondary Section 3

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 History

Editor, Arab Studies Quarterly, publications include: The Wafd, 1919-1952, 1982.

 

Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching

Works with local teachers as part of graduate classes. Board member of ACCESS, which provides educational outreach about the Arab-American community.

Hist 103, Hist 109, Hist 110,

Hist 441, Hist 442

Jiu-Wua Upshur

Ph.D. Asian History

Publications include: The Twentieth Century: A Brief Global History 6th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2002.

   

Consultant, Educational Testing Service for World History.

Hist 123, Hist 124, Hist 313,

JoEllen Vinyard

Ph.D. Immigration History

Publications include: For Faith and Fortune, 1998.

 

Distinguished Faculty Award for Research

Works with the Library of Congress to preserve Oral History of Veterans. Grant writing to improve American History Instruction.

Course Taught

Faculty

Degree/

Specialization

Professional development

P-12 outreach

Familiarity with Michigan Standards and Benchmarks

PLSC 112

PLSC 358

PLSC 359

Jeffrey Bernstein

Ph.D./ Civics education, American government

Publication: “Using simulations to teach political science” College Teaching.

Director, Summer program for high school students.

Received grant from Dirksen center to train teachers to use simulated Congressional elections in the civics classroom, 7-12.

Co-Project director, project to assist K-12 students research effectively with Canton Public Library.

High

PLSC 213

Grady, Robert

       

PLSC 112

Greene, TeResa

Ph.D. African-
American politics

Publication: “African-American clergy and the politics of Black churches.”

   

PLSC 301

Horton, David

       

PLSC 382

Hourani, Benajmin

       

PLSC 112

Kinney, Rhonda

Ph.D. American politics

Publication: “Economic constraints and political entrepreneurship.”

   

PLSC 212, PLSC 212

PLSC 354

PLSC 467

O’Connor, Bernhard

Ph.D. Mediation, Civics Education

Speaker for teachers of Civics on the Constitution, Consultant, “We the People” program, Consultant and judge, “We the people” competition.

 

High

PLSC 112,

PLSC 301,

PLSC 312,

PLSC 381,

PLSC 385,

Pyle, Barry

Public Policy, American Politics

Academic Service Learning Fellowship – EMU

   

PLSC 480

Rosenfeld, Raymond

Ph.D./ public policy and technology

Publications:

Evaluator of Ameritech technology academy.

Co-Project director, project to assist K-12 students research effectively with Canton Public Library.

High

PLSC 113, PLSC 364

PLSC 380

Sidlow, Edward

Ph.D. American government

Author, America at Odds, An Introduction to American Government.

   

PLSC 112

PLSC 418

Scott, Joanna

Ph.D. Political theory

Author: “Hannah Arendt discovers America

EMU representative, Civics Education project, American Political Science Association

 

PLSC 211, PLSC 308, PLSC 367, PLSC 342

Stahler-Sholk, Richard

Ph.D. Latin America

Presentation: Think Globally, Act Locally 

   

Courses Taught

Faculty

Degree/

Specialization

Professional Development

Knowledge of Benchmarks

P-12 Collaboration

GESC 108, GESC 114, GEOL 160

Michael Bradley

Ph.D./ Geology

1998, Geologic map of the Hidden Lake quadrangle, Summit County, Utah: Utah Geological Survey Open File Report.

   

GEOG 445

Cherem, Gabriel

Ph.D./Cultural Geography

     

GEOL 228

Christine Clark

Ph.D./Geology, Earth Science Education

     

GEOG 110, GEOG 361

Eisenhart, Heather

M.A. Geography

     

GESC 108

Kevin (Blake) Gustavson

Ph.D/ Environmental Scientist,  Geomorphologist

     

GEOL 108

GESC 305

GESC 495

Jaworski, Eugene

Ph.D. Remote sensing

     

GEOL 200

GEOG 111

Kasenow, Michael

Ph.D. Hydrogeology, Earth Science Education

Applied Ground Water Hydrology and Well Hydraulics,

 

Director of Research for the Southeast Regional Ground Water Education in Michigan Center (SER-GEMS)

GHPR 530

Ligibel, Ted.

Ph.D. Historic Preservation

The Toledo Zoo's First 100 Years: A Century of Adventure (1999)

   

GEOL 120

GEOL 161

GEOL 331

LoDuca, Steven

Ph.D. Paleontology

LoDuca, S.T., 1997, The green alga Chaetocladus (Dasycladales); Journal of

Paleontology, 71:940-949.

   

GEOG 322

GESC 276

GESC 475

GEOG 110

GEOG 111

Lumpkin, William

M.A. Geographic Information Systems/Geography Education

 

High

Worked on application of Geographic

Information Systems to science and

Social studies curriculum in local schools

GEOG 107, GEOG 320, GEOG 333

Mayda, Chris

Ph.D. Cultural Geography

 

High

Created curriculum resources on Canadian

Geography

GESC 347

GESC 313

GESC 361

Mobley, Doreen

M.A. Earth Science, Geography Education

 

High

Worked on U.S. Department of Education funded Teacher Improvement Project at EMU. Worked on new Earth Science curriculum with local school district.

GEOG 317

GEOG 322

Nazzaro, Drew

Ph.D. Cultural Geography

 

High

Presented at summer workshop for local

Social studies teachers.

GESC 108

GESC 324

GESC 424

Ojala, Carl

Ph.D. Weather

Global Warming? A Case Study of Michigan," The Michigan Academician, V. 24, N. 3 Spring, 1992, pp. 467-484. (with R. Ferrett)

 

Created online resources for use by

Geography and earth science teachers.

GESC 320

GEOL 161

Poli, Serena

Oceanography

     

GEOG 313

GESC 250

GESC 303

GESC 227

Raphael, Nicholas

Ph.D. Physical Geography, Geomorphology

 

High

Collaborated with local school district to revise Geography/Geology curriculum

GEOG 317

GEOG 322

Semple, Hugh

Ph.D. Geographic Information Systems

     
 

Sickles-Taves, Lauren

Ph.D.  Historic Preservation

The Lost Art of Tabby Redefined:  Preserving Oglethorpe’s Architectural Legacy.

   

GHPR 335

Tyler, Norm

Ph.D. Urban planning

Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles and Practices. New York: W.S. Norton and Company. 2000.

 

Project director: Created web site for Ann Arbor Historical Street Exhibit Project for use by K-12 students and the public. (http://www.emich.edu/public/geo/exhibits/1.frameset.html)

GEOG 107, GEOG 110

Victor, Kelly.

M.A. Travel Geography

     

GEOG 110

Ward, Rocky

Ph.D. Urban planning

Ward, with Eisenhardt, "Teaching Historical Geography Using Plat Maps," National Council for Geographic Education annual meeting - Boston, 1999

 

Involvement in improving Geography education

 

Xie, Yichun

Ph.D. Geographic information systems, Geography education

"Agriculture and Socialist Policies in the Minority Areas of China," ed. Abha Lakshmi Singh, Land Resource Management, 1997

 

Principal Investigator, Visit project for social studies and science teachers to apply Geographic information system

Technology to the 7-12 grade curriculum

Courses Taught

Faculty

Degree

Specialization

Professional development

P-12 outreach

Familiarity with Michigan Standards and Benchmarks

 
 

DEWAN ABDULLAH,

Ph.D.

Monetary Economics, Time Series Analysis, Macroeconomics.

Publication: “Money Growth Variability and Stock Returns: an Innovations Accounting

Analysis,” International Economic Journal, July 1998.

 

Familiar

 

ECON 201

ECON 375

DAVID CRARY,

Ph.D.

Macroeconomics, Economic Forecasting, Monetary Economics.

Publication: “Labor Quality, Natural Unemployment, and U.S. Inflation,” Quarterly Review of

Economics and Finance, 2000;

Member, Ann Arbor Public Schools facilities committee

Highly familiar

 

ECON 201

ECON 302

JOHN EDGREN,

Ph.D.

Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, Economics of Crime,

Microeconomic Theory.

Publication: “Modeling Institutional Change, Some Critical Thoughts,” Journal of Economic

Issues, December, 1996;

 

Familiar

 

ECON 201

ECON 301

SHARON ERENBURG,

Ph.D.

Macroeconomic Theory, Econometrics, Public Finance.

Publication: “The Effects of the International Interest Rate Gap on US Output,” Applied

Economics, 2001;

 

Familiar

 

ECON 415

RAOUF HANNA,

Ph.D.

Econometrics, Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics.

Publication: “The Monetary Model of the Balance of Payments: Application to Taiwan,” Journal

of Economics, Spring 1995,

Extensive outreach to Arab-American community on issues of education.

   

ECON 100

ECON 201

ECON 385

STEVEN HAYWORTH,

Ph.D.

Economic Development, Economic Planning, Macroeconomics.

Writing Across the Curriculum seminar faculty fellow.

     

ECON 202

ECON 455

KEMPER MORELAND,

Ph.D.

Public Finance, Microeconomic Theory, Academic Labor Markets, Cost

Benefit Analysis.

Publication: “Can the graduated income tax survive?”

 

Highly familiar

 

ECON 100

ECON 325

ECON 201

DONALD PEARSON,

Ph.D.

Labor Economics, Latin American Economics, History of Economic

Thought.

       

ECON 202

ECON 415

ECON 436

JAMES THORNTON,

Ph.D.

Major Areas of Academic Interest: Health Economics, Econometrics, Industrial Organization, Financial

Economics.

Publicaition: “Transforming Ideas Into Research,” in The Clinical Research Survival Guide,

2002;

     

ECON 201

ECON 480

ECON 508

MICHAEL VOGT,

Ph.D.

Major Areas of Academic Interest: International Economics, Money and Banking, Macroeconomics,

Economic Development.

Publication: “Determinants of the Demand for Thailand’s Exports of Tourism,” Applied

Economics, March

Developer, K-12 Economics Education graduate certificate.

Highly familiar

 

ECON 202

ECON 310

ECON 405

BILL WOODLAND,

.

Ph.D.

Major Areas of Academic Interest: Microeconomics, Quantitative Methods, Risk and Uncertainty

Selected Publications: “The Reverse Favorite-Longshot Bias and Market Efficiency In Major League

Baseball: An Update, forthcoming in Bulletin of Economic Research; “Market Efficiency and Profitable

Wagering in the National Hockey League: Can Bettors Score on Longshots?,” Southern Economic Journal,

April 2001; “Testing Contrarian Strategies in the National Football League,” Journal of Sports Economics,

June 2000;

     

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