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Mark Tebeau 

Peter Rutkoff

Russ Olwell

Wil Scott

Bob Bain 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Tebeau

 

 

Cleveland State University

 

 

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                       Mark Tebeau

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Rutkoff

 

 

Kenyon College

 

 

 

Peter Rutkoff of Kenyon College in Ohio's smallest town, Gambier, has taught and written about American culture for a few years. Twenty years ago, working with Will Scott on their first book, New School: A History of the New School for Social Research, he decided to leave his interest in modern Europe behind and concentrate on American Studies. But the rear view mirror never lost its focus and today, in his on-going work with Scott for the Woodrow Wilson Summer History Institute, Rutkoff is again a part-time Europeanist. Working with Cleveland Public School faculty on a project that brings twentieth century European and American history has proved an exciting intellectual journey for him, and the mirror has reversed its image. Those objects /are /getting larger, easier to see than before.

 

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Russell Olwell

 

 

Eastern Michigan University

 

 

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                                         Russell Olwell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will Scott

 

 

Kenyon College

 

 

 

Will Scott is professor of history at Kenyon College.  With his colleague in American Studies, Peter Rutkoff, for the past 15 years Scott has worked with Ohio secondary school history teachers.   The Kenyon KAP program oversees college-level courses taught by secondary teachers in their schools to college-bound students for college credit.  More recently, also with Rutkoff, Scott has directed a Kenyon College sponsored Cleveland Great Migration Summer Institute that introduces Cleveland public school teachers to African-American culture through seminar readings and discussions, a week of field research in the Carolina Low Country, and a week of field research in Cleveland.  The Institute teaches teachers how to conduct oral research, to build on-line photographic and oral archives, and to involve their students in hands on research.

Scott has also collaborated with Rutkoff on several books including The New School: A History (Free Press); prize-winning  New York Modern: The Arts and the City (Johns Hopkins University Press); and their forthcoming Fly Away: A Cultural History of the Great Migration (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Will is married, has two daughters, the older a graduate student in microbiology at Cal Berkeley and the younger a junior anthropology major at Kenyon.  He spends off-time making Shaker and Mission-inspired furniture and does not own a cell phone.

 

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Robert Bain

 

 

University of Michigan

 

 

Bob Bain is assistant professor of history and social studies education in the School of Education, University of Michigan. He also is a Pew Fellow and Carnegie Scholar in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and a research scholar with the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education (HI-CE). He earned his Ph.D. in history from Case Western Reserve University with a special concentration in the history of policy toward youth. Before coming to the University of Michigan in 1998, Professor Bain taught high school history and social studies for 26 years in the Cleveland, Ohio area. He has worked on a range of educational projects including the committee to craft the AP World History course and the NAEP U.S. History exam.

As a historian, longtime history teacher and teacher-educator, his research investigates the relationships between history as a way of knowing, student thinking and instruction. Dr. Bain's current research projects include: a study of teaching and learning history in museums and with museum resources; an investigation of pre-service teachers' pedagogical reasoning; professional development in history; and the design and use of history-specific technology for students engaged in historical inquiry. The latter research initiative involves developing and testing technological tools to support students' while they analyze historical sources and construct historical explanation.

 

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