Center for History Teaching and Learning
Recent trends in the historical profession and in the field of social science education have highlighted the importance of interdisciplinary partnerships that connect content disciplines to the training of professionals in education, business, telecommunications, and other career fields. The Center for History Teaching has been created by the Department of History at Michigan State University in order to intensify its attention to preservice teachers and to develop new strategies for meeting their needs within the Department. We take a holistic approach that involves preservice teachers, outreach and extension services to induction and in-service teachers, and the development of content-based resources that appeal to both constituencies.
The Center's mission is to mobilize the Department's human and material resources to promote the training and continuing education of teaching professionals in the discipline of History, through collaboration with professional programs at MSU, outreach to local and Michigan schools, policy analysis and consultation for the State of Michigan, and research on historical consciousness, history learning, and history pedagogy. The Department will hire dedicated faculty with a track record of publication and service in history education, the development of extramural funding streams for applied and theoretical research, and the creation of strong operational linkages with sister institutions in Michigan and off-campus history organizations such as the Michigan Historical Center and the Michigan Council for History Education.
History Faculty Currently Engaged in History Education and Outreach
Professors: Peter Knupfer (humanities technology, 19th century America), Ethan Segal (medieval Japan, Asian studies), Lisa Fine (business, labor, and women's history), David Bailey (American religious and intellectual history), Mark Kornbluh (chair, modern U.S. political history), Thomas Summerhill (agricultural history, 19th century America), Susan Sleeper-Smith (Native American, environmental, early republic), Pero Dagbovie (African American history and historiography, popular culture), Daina Ramey Berry (slavery, 19th century America, economic history), Alan Fisher (Islamic studies, world history), Gordon Stewart (European and world history), Christine Daniels (early American, colonial), Maureen Flanagan (urban, progressive era, social history). Our new faculty in African studies and history will be joining this effort as we expand our coverage to World History and Geography.