Associate Professor
School of Teacher Education and leadership
Utah State University

I am an associate professor of social studies education at Utah State University. My research focuses on curriculum and instruction in the areas of perspective consciousness and social justice as they relate to critical democratic education. I was recently awarded the American Educational Studies Association 2017 Critics' Choice Book Award for my book entitled, "Critical Democratic Education and LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum: Opportunities and Constraints." My research has been published in scholarly journals such as Theory and Research in Social Education, the Social Studies, Social Studies Research and Practice, International Journal of Social Studies Research, Journal of Teaching and Teacher Education, the Journal of Public Deliberation, and the London Review of Education. For more information about my work, please refer to my Curriculum Vitae below. I am a former elementary school teacher. 

Link to full texts of my work.
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