Six graduate students in the Cato College of Education’s Department of Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education have been awarded fellowships to participate in the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History's prestigious Teacher Seminars Program for summer 2017.
Andelle Bayard, Kellyn Brooks, Erin Gardiner, Jennifer Hallman, Stephanie Kelly and Ivana O'Kelly will travel to institutions across the country to study issues ranging from “Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Era” to “9/11 and American Memory.”
Spencer Salas, associate professor of middle, secondary and K-12 education, mentored the students through the awards competition. "We celebrate the national achievement that these awards represent and are especially proud of our working teachers enrolled in our online degree programs.”
Bayard will study “America in the Age of Discovery: 1492–1625” at the University of Southern California.
Brooks will learn about “9/11 and American Memory” at New York University and the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
Gardiner will discover “The Story of World War II” at the National World War II Museum.
Hallman will explore “The Era of Theodore Roosevelt” at Boston University.
Kelly will study “Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Era” at New York University.
O’Kelly will learn about “Immigrants in American History” at Columbia University.
Founded in 1994 by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a nonprofit organization devoted to the improvement of history education.
Each summer, the Institute offers academically rigorous teacher seminars for K–12 educators; it selects a group of top educators from a nationwide pool for the highly competitive one-week seminars.