Content Advisors

Brad Austin, Professor, Salem State University (United States history)

Tim Bailey, Director of Education, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (United States History)

Craig Benjamin, Professor, Grand Valley State University, Michigan (world history)

Rosemary Blanchard, Chair, Human Rights Education Community of the National Council for the Social Studies and Co-Vice-Chair, Human Rights Educators USA (human rights)

Maureen Costello, Teaching ToleranceDirector, Southern Poverty Law Center (African American history)

Robert Forrant, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell (industrial history)

Debra Fowler, Co-Executive Director, History UnErased, Inc., former teacher, Lowell High School (LGBTQ+ history)

Janet Furey, teacher, Weston Public Schools, retired, standards writer (elementary curriculum, technology)

Robert Furey, History and Social Science Department Head, Concord-Carlisle Regional School, retired (civics, United States history)

NitanaGreendeer, Education Director, Mashpee Wampanoag (Massachusetts Native Peoples history)

William R. Keylor, Professor, Boston University (modern United States and international history)

Priya Lal, Associate Professor, Boston College (African and world history)

Cris Martin, Outreach Director of the Davis Center for Outreach on Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University (Russian and Eurasian history)

Members of The Massachusetts State Student Advisory Council Civic Education and Engagement Workgroup 2017-2018

Chris Bezdedeanu, Workgroup Chair, Brian Anastasio, Workgroup Communications Coordinator, Hannah Trimarchi, Council Chairwoman, Litzy Rodriguez, Council Vice Chair, Shreya Nair, Council Communications Coordinator, Adam Cavanaugh, Jennie Chang, Dylan Gordon, Frederick Hanna, Jack Hurd, Megan Jens, Diana Kulmizev, Brandon Scott, Daphney Sully

Miriam Morgenstern, Co-Executive Director, History UnErased, Inc., former teacher, Lowell High School (LGBTQ+ and women’s history)

Barbara Petzen, Director of Training Initiatives, Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy Center for Strategic and International Studies (Middle Eastern history)

Hilda Ramirez, Assistant Director, Latino Education Institute, Worcester State University

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th Anniversary UniversityProfessor, Harvard University (Colonial American history, United States history to 1870, women, religion)

Graham Warder, Associate Professor, Keene State College, New Hampshire (United States history)

Kirsten Weld, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of History, Harvard University (South, Central American, Caribbean, and United States history)

Cedric Woods, Director, University of Massachusetts Boston Institute for New England Native American Studies (Native Peoples of the Americas)

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