Mark E. Helmsing

Assistant Professor 4400 University Drive, MS: 4B3 School of Education phone (703) 993-2384 George Mason University email [email protected]

EDUCATION

2017 Ph.D. in Curriculum, Teaching, & Education Policy Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Dissertation: American Expressions: Three Cases on Curricular Forms of Teaching about America in Social Studies Education. Chair: Dr. Avner Segall

2004 B.S. (High Distinction) in Secondary Education Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Major: Social Studies Education; Minor: English Education Alumnus, School of Education Community of Teachers Program

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2017– Assistant Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax VA College of Education & Human Development, School of Education Affiliate Faculty: Department of History & Art History (2019–) Affiliate Faculty: Folklore Studies Program (2019–)

2014–2016 Instructor, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY College of Education, Department of Secondary Education

2011–2013 Research Assistant, “Learning Science as Inquiry with the Urban Advantage” Michigan State University/American Museum of Natural History

2009–2013 Graduate Assistant, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI College of Education, Department of Teacher Education

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teacher, Dennis Intermediate School, Richmond, IN Teacher, Sunnyslope High School, Phoenix, AZ Teacher, Bloomington High School North, Bloomington, IN Summer Remediation Teacher, Monroe County Community School Corporation, Bloomington, IN Volunteer Teacher, New Life-New Leaf Transformative Justice Program, Bloomington, IN Guest Teacher, Gairloch High School, Scotland, United Kingdom Peer Instructor, Collins Living-Learning Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Faculty Assistant, Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology, Bloomington, IN Museum Assistant, Huddleston Farmhouse & Inn Museum, Mt. Auburn, IN Staff Assistant, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN

Updated June 2019 by Mark E. Helmsing, Ph.D. Page 1 RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP ( # = co-authored with )

Articles in Journals

Helmsing, M. & van Kessel, C. (accepted). Critical corpse studies: Engaging with death and corporeality in curriculum. Taboo: Journal of Culture and Education.

Helmsing, M. (2019). Disability plots: Curriculum, allegory, & history. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 34(1), 110-116. SJR: N/A, H Index: N/A, JIF: N/A, Acceptance Rate: 30%

#Helmsing, M. & Vardas-Doane, A. (2019). Teaching and learning medievalism in popular culture as history education. Teaching Social Studies, 19(1), 25-30. SJR: N/A, H Index: N/A, JIF: N/A, Acceptance Rate: N/A

Helmsing, M. (2018). A love-hate relationship: Personal narratives of pride and shame as patriotic affects. Bank Street Occasional Papers on Education, Volume 40, 84-93. SJR: N/A, H Index: N/A, JIF: N/A, Acceptance Rate: N/A

Janak, E. & Helmsing, M. (2016). Problematizing philanthropy: How a historical study of the General Education Board in the U.S. West puts the “social” in race and region as social constructs. Race, Ethnicity, and Education, 20(2), 277-288. SJR: Q1, H Index: 38, JIF: 1.27, Acceptance Rate: 6- 10%

Helmsing, M. (2016). Becoming-American: Experiencing the nation through LBGT fabulation in a ninth- grade US history class. The Journal of Social Studies Research, 40(3), 173-186. Q2, H Index: 5, JIF: N/A, Acceptance Rate: 10-15%

Houseal, A., Gillis, V., Helmsing, M., & Hutchison, L. (2015). Disciplinary literacy through the lens of Next Generation Science Standards. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 59(4), 377-384. SJR: Q2, H Index: 38, JIF: 0.92, Acceptance Rate: 20%

Helmsing, M. (2014). Virtuous subjects: A critical analysis of the affective substance of social studies education. Theory & Research in Social Education, 42(1), 127-140. SJR: Q2, H Index: 24, JIF: N/A, Acceptance Rate: 15%

Helmsing, M. (2014). An/Other American life: Minor pedagogies of heritage in the Arab American National Museum. Review of Education, Pedagogy, & Cultural Studies, 36(1), 71-88. SJR: Q2, H Index: 14, JIF: N/A, Acceptance Rate: 11-20%

Monographs and Edited Volumes

Helmsing, M. (proposal under review). Feeling the past: Experiments with affect and temporality in history education. New York, NY: Routledge. Role: developed idea; sole author.

Helmsing, M. (proposal under review). Expressing the past: History, allegory, and curriculum. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. Role: developed idea; sole author.

Helmsing, M. (under contract). Captivated by the past: Affect, history, and critical media literacy. New York, NY: Sense/Brill. Role: developed idea; sole author.

Updated November 2019 by Mark E. Helmsing, Ph.D. Page 2 Krutka, D.G., Whitlock, A.M., & Helmsing, M. (Eds.) (2018). Keywords in the social studies: Concepts and conversations. New York, NY: Peter Lang. Role: developed idea (100%); shared in initial review and editing of submissions and review of final drafts (30%); co-contact for the publisher and contributors (20%).

Chapters in Books

Helmsing, M. (in press). Youth, the Vietnam War, and Becoming-American. Manuscript submitted for S.R. Steinberg, B. Down, D. Nix-Stevenson (Eds.), Handbook of critical pedagogies. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publishing.

Huddleston, G. & Helmsing, M. (in press). Pop culture 2.0: A political curriculum in the Age of Trump. In P.P. Trifonas (Ed.), Handbook of theory and research in cultural studies and education. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Helmsing, M. (2019). Queer theory and the social studies: Engaging with histories, communities, and identities. Submitted for C.A. Brant & L. Willox (Eds.), Teaching the teachers: LGBTQ Issues in teacher education. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press.

Helmsing, M. (2018). Making America great (again and again): Certainty, centrality, and paranoiac pedagogies of social studies education in the United States. In J. Sandlin & J. Wallin (Eds.), Paranoid pedagogies: Education, culture, and paranoia (pp. 99-120). New York, NY: Palgrave.

Helmsing, M., Krutka, D.G. & McMahon Whitlock, A.M. (2018). Introduction: Unsettling the social studies. In D.G. Krutka, A.M. Whitlock, & M. Helmsing (Eds.), Keywords in the social studies: Concepts and conversations (pp. xxi-xxxi). New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Whitlock, A.M. & Helmsing, M. (2018). Time. In D.G. Krutka, A.M. Whitlock, & M. Helmsing (Eds.), Keywords in the social studies: Concepts and conversations (pp. 37-45). New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Helmsing, M. (2017). A small town with long roads: Wyoming as a post-western curriculum. In W.M. Reynolds (Ed.) Forgotten places: Critical studies in rural education (pp. 291-302). New York, NY: Routledge.

Helmsing, M. (2016). Life at large: Materializing social studies education for re-enchantment. In N. Snaza, D. Sonu, S. Truman, & Z. Zaliwska (Eds.), Pedagogical matters: New materialisms and curriculum studies (pp. 137-151). New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Helmsing, M. (2016). “This is no ordinary apple”: Learning to fail spectacularly in the queer pedagogy of Disney’s diva villains. In J.A. Sandlin & J.C. Garlen (Eds.), Disney, culture, curriculum (pp. 59- 72). New York, NY: Routledge.

Helmsing, M. (2014). Feeling responsible: Vulnerable encounters in social studies education. In H. Smits & R. Naqvi (Eds.), Framing peace: Thinking about and enacting curriculum as radical hope (pp. 43-48). New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Helmsing, M. (2014). Grotesque stories, desolate voices: Encountering histories and geographies of violence in Southern Gothic’s haunted mansions. In W.M. Reynolds (Ed.), Critical studies of Southern place: A reader (pp. 316-323). New York, NY: Peter Lang.

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Huddleston, G., & Helmsing, M. (Eds.). (2015). Spivak and literacy. Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices, 9(1).

Scholarly Reviews

Helmsing, M. (in print). Review of S. Metzger & L.M. Harris (Eds.), The Wiley international handbook of history teaching and learning (Wiley Blackwell, 2018). Reviewed for Journal of Social Studies Research.

Helmsing, M. (in print). Review of R. Guyver (Ed.), Teaching history and the changing nation state (Bloomsbury, 2016). Reviewed for Education Review.

Helmsing. M. (2013). Review of Woyshner, C. & Bohan, C. (Eds.), Histories of social studies and race: 1865-2000 (Palgrave, 2012). In American Educational History Journal, 40, 391-396.

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP (* = refereed; # = co-authored with students)

National and International Presentations

Bronstein, E. & Helmsing, M. (2019, November). Reimagining rights: Infusing citizenship and agency in world history instruction. National Council for the Social Studies, Austin, TX.

Varga, B.A., van Kessel, C., Christ, R.C., & Helmsing, M. (2019, November). Death. A Contemporary Issues Dialogue for the College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, Austin, TX.

Helmsing, M. (2019, October). Towards a curriculum inquiry of the Midwest: Historical consciousness and the autobiographical demand of place. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

Helmsing, M. (2019, October). Encounters with re-enchantment: Curriculum in excess of rationalization and intellectualization. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

Helmsing, M. (2019, October). Made of flesh and bones: The corpse as a site of curriculum. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

*Helmsing, M. & Shear, S. (2019, April). Whose “American” story? Two self-studies of critically unsettling civic identities in university classrooms. Critical Educators for Social Justice SIG, American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada.

*Helmsing, M. & Huddleston, G. (2019, April). Strange(r) things: Inquiries into the curriculum of the weird and the eerie. Critical Issues in Curriculum SIG, American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada.

*Krutka, D., Helmsing, M., & McMahon Whitlock, A. (2019, April). Settling and unsettling the social studies: Interrogating the social studies curriculum through keywords. Social Studies Research SIG, American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada.

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*Helmsing, M. (2019, April). Disability plots: Curriculum, allegory, & history education. Disability Studies in Education SIG, American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada.

*+Helmsing, M. & Porter, A. (2019, March). What were the 1980s? Teaching and learning the recent past. National Council for History Education, Washington, D.C.

*+Helmsing, M. & Vardas-Doane, A. (2019, March). Dungeons, dragons, & thrones: Understanding medievalism in world history curriculum. National Council for History Education, Washington, D.C.

*+Helmsing, M., & Vardas-Doane, A. (2018, December). Dungeons, dragons, and thrones: Modern-day medievalisms in world history courses. National Council for the Social Studies, Chicago, IL.

*+Bronstein, E., & Helmsing, M. (2018, December). Beyond battles: Alternative ways and resources for teaching about wars. National Council for the Social Studies, Chicago, IL.

*Helmsing, M. & Shear, S. (2018, November). Whose “American” story: Two self-studies of unsettling national myths and civic identities in university classrooms. College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, Chicago, IL.

*Helmsing, M. & van Kessel, C. (2018, November). Bringing out the dead: Engaging with death and corporeality in social studies education. College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, Chicago, IL.

Helmsing, M. (2018, August). Scandalous lessons: Diva citizenship and the queer affects of soap operas. Educating Affects stream, Capacious: Affect Inquiry/Making Space Conference, Millersville, PA.

*Helmsing, M. (2018, April). Dis-figuring the past in history education: Transgression and the abject in a curriculum of the grotesque. Division B: Curriculum Studies, American Educational Research Association, New York City, NY.

*Helmsing, M. (2018, April). Mythologizing America: Interrogating a curriculum of belonging in a U.S. high school civics course. Social Studies Research SIG, American Educational Research Association, New York City, NY.

*Helmsing, M. (2017, November). American horror stories: Transgression, otherness, and a pedagogy of the grotesque in social studies education. College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, San Francisco, CA.

*Krutka, D., Helmsing, M., & Whitlock, A.M. (2017, November). Keywords in the social studies: Concepts and conversations. A Contemporary Issues Dialogue for the College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, San Francisco, CA.

Helmsing, M. & Huddleston, G. (2017, October). Pop culture pedagogy 2.0: A political curriculum in the Age of Trump. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

Helmsing, M. (2017, October). History sucks: Saturations of sadness in history education. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

Updated November 2019 by Mark E. Helmsing, Ph.D. Page 5 Helmsing, M. (2017, October). Transgression, empathy, and a curriculum of the grotesque in history education. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

Helmsing, M. (2017, October). Soap opera curriculum: Affect, citizenship, and learning to live the good life on daytime television. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

*Helmsing, M. (2017, April). American dreams and nightmares: Elegiac pedagogies and social studies education. Social Studies Research SIG, American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

*Blankenship, W. & Helmsing, M. (2016, December). Teaching the American Dream: Investigating past and present perspectives. National Council for the Social Studies, Washington, D.C.

*Helmsing, M. (2016, December). For which it stands? National belonging and mythic pedagogies in high school social studies education. College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, Washington, D.C.

Helmsing, M. (2016, October). Modes of learning the nation in social studies curriculum. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

*Helmsing, M. (2016, June). Boy for sale: Consuming youth in dystopian body donor narratives. Children’s’ Literature Association, Columbus, OH.

*Helmsing, M. (2016, April). Learning to fail: Mad Men and failure as a mode of curriculum thought. Division B: Curriculum Studies, American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C.

Helmsing, M. (2016, March). Sentimental education: Intimate citizenships & pedagogies of melodrama in U.S. daytime drama. Critical Media Literacy Conference, Savannah, GA.

*Helmsing, M. (2015, November). Anatomy of a “good” citizen: Civic virtues as structures of feeling in social studies education. College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, New Orleans, LA.

Helmsing, M. (2015, October). American tales: Prefiguring the nation through narrative emplotment. Curriculum and Pedagogy Conference, Cleveland, OH.

Helmsing, M. (2015, October). Beach reading: Jaws as a curriculum of community. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

Helmsing, M. (2015, October). American horror stories: (Un)dead pasts and uncanny curriculum in the Gothic sensibilities of history education. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

*Helmsing, M. (2015, April). “This is no ordinary apple”: Learning to fail spectacularly from the queer pedagogy of Disney’s diva villains. Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies SIG, American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

*Helmsing, M. (2015, April). Feeling American: Virtuous dispositions for national citizenship in social studies education. Social Studies Research SIG, American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

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*Helmsing, M. (2015, April). Life at large: New materialisms for a (re)new(ing) curriculum of social studies education. Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies SIG, American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Helmsing, M. (2015, April). As the school bus turns: Learning citizenship from daytime dramas. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, New Orleans, LA.

Plumb, W. & Helmsing, M. (April 2015). Teaching World War II: Engaging the 21st century learner with comics, games, and critical thinking. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, New Orleans, LA.

*Helmsing, M. (2014, November). On trucks & tractors: Country music as the people’s poetry. National Council for the Social Studies, Boston, MA.

*List, M., McGuth, B., Shear, S., Schmidt, S., & Helmsing, M. (2014, November). LBGTQ issues in social studies education. College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, Boston, MA.

*Mikeska, J.N., Wilson, S.M., Short, J.S., Bills, P., Dibner, K., Elgendy, S., Helmsing, M., McClure, D., Meyer, A., Shattuck, T., Holmes, J., & Roditi, H. (2014, April). Using a resource framework to examine middle school science teachers’ learning from professional development. Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education, American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.

*Helmsing, M. (2014, April). Performing America: Using mimesis, poesies, and kinesis to consider curriculum as performance. Division B: Curriculum Studies, American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.

*Helmsing, M. (2013, December). On huts, houses, and teepees: Race, compassion, and the (unfulfilled) promise of anthropology education in the United States. College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, St. Louis, MO.

*Helmsing, M. (2013, April). Feeling September 11: Theorizing teacher oral histories as affective events. Qualitative Research SIG, American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, CA.

*Helmsing, M. (2013, April). The extreme makeover curriculum: Affective pedagogies and powers of freedom on The Biggest Loser. Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies SIG, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

*Helmsing, M. (2013, April). Everything is (not) for sale: The & affective pedagogies of shopping malls. Division B: Curriculum Studies, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

*Helmsing, M. (2013, April). Becoming healthy, wealthy, and wise: The construction of the Enterprising subject through economics education. Division B: Curriculum Studies, American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, CA.

*Helmsing, M. (2013, April). Dr. Hunter’s magical elixir, Or how we learned to stop teaching and love instruction. Biographical and Documentary Research SIG, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Updated November 2019 by Mark E. Helmsing, Ph.D. Page 7 *Mikeska, J.N., Wilson, S.M., Short, J.S., Bills, P., Dibner, K., Elgendy, S., Helmsing, M., McClure, D., Meyer, A., Shattuck, T., Holmes, J., & Roditi, H. (2013, April). Examining urban middle school science teachers’ intellectual, social, and conventional resources in a science professional development program. Division K: Teaching & Teacher Education, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

*Helmsing, M. (2012, November). Assembling the ‘Dark Continent’: Pedagogies of the Other and the construction of Africa in social studies. College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, Seattle, WA.

*Helmsing, M. (2012, November). Normality and the social studies: A queer reading of the history of social studies Education. College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, Seattle, WA.

Kenyon, E. & Helmsing, M. (2012, November). Putting the social back into social studies: Social justice as a cornerstone for social studies education. National Association for Multicultural Education, Chicago, IL.

*Helmsing, M. (2012, November). ‘Philosophy can bake no bread’: Situating moral philosophy and mental science in the history of the Committee of Ten and American Curriculum Reform. History of Education Society, Chicago, IL.

*Troutman, S. & Helmsing, M. (April 2012). From secretary pools to civil rights: The socializing pedagogy of Mad Men as cultural practice. Media Studies SIG, American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC.

*Wilson, S.M., Short, J.B., Mikeska, J.N., Bills, P., Dibner, K., Elgendy, S., Helmsing, M. & Shattuck, T. (2012, April). Teaching teachers to teach science: The case of The Urban Advantage. Division K: Teaching & Teacher Education, American Educational Research Association. Vancouver, BC.

*Helmsing, M. (2012, April). Wolfing out: Adolescent culture, bodily intensities, & critical pedagogies of dread. Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies SIG, American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC.

*Helmsing, M. (2011, November). The lingering pedagogy of ‘guns and butter’: Dominant discourses of economics education and the absence of curricular counternarratives. College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, Washington D.C.

Helmsing, M. (2011, June). Of limits and desires: A Deleuzoguattarian funeral for public education. Rouge Forum, Chicago, IL.

*Helmsing, M. (2010, November). Schizophrenic social studies: Constructing Deleuzian multiplicities in social studies teacher education. College and University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, Denver, CO.

*Helmsing, M. (2010, November). Measuring our own progress: A history of assessment methods in the social studies. College University Faculty Assembly, National Council for the Social Studies, Denver, CO.

Helmsing, M. (2010, October). Teacher assembly required: Deleuzian difference in learning to teach. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

Updated November 2019 by Mark E. Helmsing, Ph.D. Page 8 Helmsing, M. & Yates, C. (2010, October). Guido curriculum and pedagogy: The tanned landscapes of learning on The Jersey Shore. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

*Helmsing, M. (October 2010). Uneasy neighbors, uncivil classmates: The chaos in consolidating Indiana high schools, 1960-1964. Organization of Educational Historians. Chicago, IL.

Helmsing, M. (2010, April). ‘I suppose you’re trying to solve the race problem’: A history of The Anthropology Curriculum Study Project, 1962-1972. Society for the Study of Curriculum History, Denver, CO.

Local, State, and Regional Presentations

+Helmsing, M., & Porter, A. (2018, November). Teaching the recent past: The 1980s in U.S. history curriculum. Virginia Council for the Social Studies, Roanoke, VA.

Helmsing, M. (2016, September). “You won’t believe what happened next!”: Using the language of causation to improve narrative writing. Presentation for the 2016 University of Wyoming Fall Literacy Conference: Writers and Writings, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

Invited Presentations, Talks, and Lectures

Helmsing, M. (2019, March). Ph.D. in Education Doctoral Seminar: Shifting identities and developing as scholars and teacher educators. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

Helmsing, M. (2019, February). Faculty Dialogue on Leading Study Abroad Experiences. Center for International Education, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

Helmsing, M. (2018, November). Bank Street College of Education Library Salon #14: “Am I Patriotic?” Bank Street College of Education, New York, NY.

Helmsing, M. (2018, April). Ph.D. in Education Doctoral Student Seminar: Engaging in research and scholarly activities leading towards publication. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.

Helmsing, M. (2018, February). Keynote address for 3rd International Conference on Research and Practices in Education. Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan (Unable to attend).

Helmsing, M. (2017, October). Provoking Dialogues—A panel discussion of João Paraskeva’s Curriculum Epistemicide: Towards an Itinerant Curriculum Theory. Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, OH.

Helmsing, M. (2016, October). Planning instruction for teaching a unit on Plains Indians to 4th grade students. Series of guest courses taught in genre-based literacies course. University of Wyoming. Laramie, WY.

Helmsing, M. (2016, July). Culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogies. Guest lecture in Art & Science of Teaching course. University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

Updated November 2019 by Mark E. Helmsing, Ph.D. Page 9 Helmsing, M. (2016, May). Panel moderator and speaker for Integration of Inquiry, Digital Literacy Skills, and Wyoming Standards. “Lost in Transition: Social Science Summit on Teaching History, Geography, Political Science/Civics, and Economics.” University of Wyoming, Casper, WY.

Helmsing, M. (2016, April). Out of time: Necropedagogies and history education. Presentation for 2016 Shephard Symposium on Social Justice symposium on Promoting Social Justice Across Visual & Literary Arts. University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY.

Helmsing, M. (2015, November). Bridging the gap between researchers and policy makers. Invited speaker on panel with the Council of Chief State Social Studies Specialists at the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies, New Orleans, LA.

Helmsing, M. (2015, October). Preparing a digital portfolio: Before, during, & after student teaching. Guest lecture for the University of Wyoming chapter of Kappa Delta Pi and the Wyoming Education Association. University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

Helmsing, M. (July 2015). Locating affect in moments of classroom teaching. Guest lecture in English education methods course. Auburn University (online). Helmsing, M. (2015, July). Funds of knowledge and culturally relevant pedagogy. Guest lecture in Art & Science of Teaching course. University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

Helmsing, M. (2015, January). How do we promote civil discourse? A panel discussion for “Teaching Public Policy Through Student Engagement: Wyoming Project Citizen.” University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

Helmsing, M. (2014, November). Creating a professional web presence for educators. Lecture given to University of Wyoming chapter of Kappa Delta Pi. University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

Helmsing, M. (2014, July). Researching affect and emotions in education: An overview. Guest lecture in English education methods course. Auburn University (online).

Helmsing, M. (2013, April). The interface effect: Overcoming a poverty of knowledge. Invited IGNITE presentation in Presidential Session on Broadening Communication, Collaboration, Participation in Educational Research. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Helmsing, M. (2012, October). ‘It gets better’ for whom? Existential approaches to bullying in schools. Presentation in Presidential Spotlight Session at annual meeting of the National Association for Multicultural Education, Chicago, IL.

Helmsing, M. (2012, October). (Dis)placement of Africa: Re/Presenting Africa as place/space/time. Lecture given at meeting of the Eyes on Africa Colloquium, Department of African Studies, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Helmsing, M. (2011, June). What can we say about what is said about school? Investigating the construction of educational identities in oral history research. Presentation of research at “Rethinking 9/11: Life Stories, Cultural Memory and the Politics of Representation.” Columbia University. New York City, NY.

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For George Mason University

EDUC 522 Foundations of Secondary Education (hybrid) Summer 2018 (n=15) Summer 2019 (n=19)

EDCI 597 Teaching & Learning Historical Thinking (online) Summer 2018 (n=16)

EDCI 597 Teaching & Learning the Holocaust (online) Summer 2019 (n=15)

EDUC 592 Effective Collaboration for Teaching Diverse Learners Spring 2018 (n=15)

EDCI 567 Teaching Social Studies in the Secondary School Spring 2019 (n=10) Fall 2018 (n=8) Spring 2018 (n=6) Fall 2017 (n=19)

EDUC 613 How Students Learn (online) Fall 2018 (n=10)

EDUC 800 Ways of Knowing Spring 2018 (n=15)

EDCI 597 History & Heritage in Cyprus (cross-listed) Spring 2019 (n=6)

EDCI 790 Internship in Secondary Social Studies Education Fall 2017 (n=5)

For University of Wyoming

EDCI 5000 Principles of Curriculum (online) Summer 2016 (n=25) Summer 2015 (n=25)

EDSE 3273 Methods of Teaching Social Studies I Fall 2016 (n=22) Fall 2015 (n=19) Fall 2014 (n=21)

EDSE 4273 Methods of Teaching Social Studies II Fall 2016 (n=22) Fall 2015 (n=19) Fall 2014 (n=21)

EDSE 1101 First-Year Seminar: Superheroes Fall 2016 (n=20)

EDSE 4500 Residency in Teaching Social Studies Spring 2016 (n=7) Spring 2015(n=8)

For Michigan State University

TE 802 Reflection & Inquiry in Teaching Social Studies I (hybrid) Fall 2013

TE 804 Reflection & Inquiry in Teaching Social Studies II (hybrid) Spring 2014

TE 822 Issues of Culture & Curriculum in Schools & Classrooms Summer 2013

Updated November 2019 by Mark E. Helmsing, Ph.D. Page 11 TE 407 Teaching Social Studies to Diverse Adolescent Learners Fall 2011 Fall 2010

TE 408 Crafting Teaching Practices in Social Studies Spring 2012 Spring 2011

TE 501 Internship in Teaching Diverse Adolescent Learners I Fall 2010 Fall 2009

TE 503 Internship in Teaching Diverse Adolescent Learners II Spring 2011 Spring 2010

For Indiana University

COAS Q199 Residential Learning Workshop Fall 2002

COAS Q299 Peer Education Workshop Fall 2003

ACADEMIC ADVISING

Student Committee Chair

Kit McKeon (Ph.D. in Education, George Mason University, ongoing) Andrew Porter (Ph.D. in Education, George Mason University, ongoing) Michael Bartlo (B.I.S. in Performance Pedagogy, George Mason University, ongoing)

Student Committee Member

Marvana Bennett (Ph.D. in Education, George Mason University, ongoing) Christie Byers, (Ph.D. in Education, George Mason University, ongoing) Kathryn McKee (M.A. in History, University of Wyoming, 2016) Jon Wargo (Ph.D. practicum committee, Michigan State University, 2014)

Program Advisor

M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction: Secondary Education Social Studies, George Mason University 2018–2019 (n=34) 2017–2018 (n=32)

M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction: Advanced Studies in Teaching & Learning (History), George Mason 2018–2019 (n=3) 2017–2018 (n=3)

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, & AWARDS

Inaugural Faculty Fellow, March of the Living Faculty Fellowship Program (2017–2019)

Department Leadership & Outreach Award, Michigan State University (2014)

Updated November 2019 by Mark E. Helmsing, Ph.D. Page 12 College of Education Alumni Scholarship, Michigan State University (2012)

College of Education Summer Research Fellowship, Michigan State University (2012)

Columbia Center for Oral History Summer Fellowship, Columbia University (2011)

Fellowship for Global Understanding, Michigan State University (2011)

Fellowship, The History Education Network/ Histoire et Éducation en Réseau (2011)

Fellowship, The Ohio Humanities Council/Kenyon College (2010)

College of Education Urban Education Fellowship, Michigan State University (2010, 2009)

University Enrichment Fellowship, Michigan State University (2009)

Chancellor’s Scholar, Indiana University (2003)

Edward R. Hutton International Experiences Award, Indiana University (2003)

Lydia Gemmer and Jacob Grant Collicot Award, Indiana University (2003)

Richard Bengston Memorial Award, Indiana University (2003)

GRANTS & PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT

Slocum, S. & Helmsing, M. (2019). Examining Public Pedagogy, Cultural Memory, and Tourism in a Post-Charlottesville Era ($3,750). George Mason University College of Education & Human Development Academic Innovation Fund Grant. Submitted in 2019, funded at $3,000 and returned in 2019. Served as co-principal investigator.

Slocum, S. & Helmsing, M. (2019). Redefining Confederate Heritage Tourism in Age of Change ($42,000). George Mason University Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities, and Research (OSCAR) Summer Team Impact Grant. Submitted in 2019, unfunded. Served as co- principal investigator.

Helmsing, M. (2018). Popular Culture and History Education ($1,500). George Mason University Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities, and Research (OSCAR) Undergraduate Research Assistantship. Submitted in 2019, fully funded. Serve as principal investigator.

Zenkov, K., Frank, T., Helmsing, M., Peters-Burton, E., & Samaras, A. (2018). SEED Master’s Licensure Enhanced Fast Track (EFT) ($5,000). George Mason University College of Education & Human Development Academic Innovation Fund Grant. Submitted in 2018, funded for $2,500 in 2018. Served as co-principal investigator.

Ramsey-Walters, S., Buss, A., Welsh, K.M., & Helmsing, M. (2016). University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources Wyoming Energy Education Initiative ($675,000). Submitted in 2016, fully funded in 2016. Served as co-principal investigator.

Updated November 2019 by Mark E. Helmsing, Ph.D. Page 13 Rea, T. & Helmsing, M. (2016). Wyoming History Digital Toolkit ($5,000). Wyoming Humanities Council. Submitted in 2016, fully funded. Served as co-principal investigator.

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY, PROFESSION, & COMMUNITY

Elected Positions to Professional Organizations

2019– Representative from College and University Faculty Assembly for the 2017–2019 National Council for the Social Studies House of Delegates

2016–2018 Technology Committee, American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies

2012–2013 Graduate Forum Chair, American Educational Research Association Division B: Curriculum Studies

2010–2012 Webmaster, American Educational Research Association Social Studies Research SIG

2011–2012 College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies Assembly Graduate Forum Chair

2010–2011 College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies Graduate Forum Vice-Chair

Editorial Board Membership (Peer-Reviewed Journals)

2018– Journal of Educational Research 2017– Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education 2015– Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy 2013– International Journal of Critical Youth Studies

Editorial Board Membership (Book Series)

2016– “Critical Media Literacy” (Sense/Brill Publishers) 2013– “Youth, Media and Culture” (Sense/Brill Publishers)

Peer Reviewer for Journal & Book Manuscripts

2019– American Educational Research Journal 2019– Journal of Folklore and Education 2018– Journal of Teacher Education 2018– Cultural & Pedagogical Inquiry 2017– Educational Studies 2017– Teaching & Teacher Education 2015– and Education 2015– Journal of Curriculum Studies 2015– Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy 2014– Theory & Research in Social Education 2012– Social Studies Research & Practice

Updated November 2019 by Mark E. Helmsing, Ph.D. Page 14 2012– Journal of Social Studies Research 2012– Journal of Citizenship, Social and Economic Education 2011–2015 Current Issues in Education 2011–2015 American Educational History Journal

Peer Reviewer for Conference Proposals

2010– American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2010– National Council for the Social Studies (CUFA) 2010–2012 National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME) 2010–2014 Organization of Educational Historians (OEH)

Peer Reviewer for Professional Organization Awards

2019 CUFA Grad Forum Travel Award Faculty Reviewer

2019 AERA Critical Issues in Curriculum SIG Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award Committee

2019 AERA Division B: Curriculum Studies Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee

Professional Activity for Annual Meetings of Professional Organizations

2019 Discussant for “Exploring fear and emotions across the social studies.” College and University Faculty Assembly sponsored session, National Council for the Social Studies, Austin, TX.

2019 Discussant for “Preservice teaching and learning in historical museums.” College and University Faculty Assembly sponsored session, National Council for the Social Studies, Austin, TX.

2019 CUFA Grad Forum Mentor for Mentoring Program

2019 Discussant for “Diverse voices and narratives in social studies research.” Social Studies Research SIG session, American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada.

2018 Discussant for “Data analysis: Shifting approaches in curriculum inquiry.” Division B: American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

Discussant for “(Re)Considering social studies curriculum: Critical perspectives.” College and University Faculty Assembly sponsored session, National Council for the Social Studies, San Francisco, CA.

Co-organizer of “Keywords in the social studies: Concepts and conversations.” College and University Faculty Assembly Contemporary Issues Dialogue, National Council for the Social Studies, San Francisco, CA.

Updated November 2019 by Mark E. Helmsing, Ph.D. Page 15 2017 Discussant for “Teaching to resist and liberate in the contested era of neoliberalism.” Division B: American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

2016 Discussant for “Decolonizing curriculum: Textbooks, citizenship education, and racialized pedagogy in transnational contexts.” Division B: American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.

2015 Discussant for “Policies and practices in state and local contexts in the West.” Division F: American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

2014 Co-organizer of Graduate Fireside Chat, “Can you see it? Exploring the intersections of visual culture, digital media, and gaming in education.” Division B: American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Co-organizer of “LBGTQ issues in social studies education.” College and University Faculty Assembly sponsored Town Hall session, National Council for the Social Studies, Boston, MA.

2013 Co-organizer of session “(Re)Claiming popular culture as a transitional space: Political and pedagogical processes of pop.” Critical Issues in Curriculum and Curriculum Studies SIG: American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Co-organizer of session “Talking back, beyond, and between: Conversations of possibilities and potential with critical theory in social studies education.” College and University Faculty Assembly Town Hall session, National Council for the Social Studies, St. Louis, MO.

Co-organizer of session “A Touchy Subject: Critical Explorations of Affect, Emotion, and Empathy in Social Studies Education.” College and University Faculty Assembly symposium session, National Council for the Social Studies, St. Louis, MO. University Service

For George Mason University

2017–2018 Curriculum development for new LGBTQ Studies Minor

For the University of Wyoming

2015–2016 Search Committee for American Heritage Center Director 2015–2016 Advisory Committee, Queer Studies Program 2015–2016 Academic Planning Committee, Faculty Senate 2015–2016 Transfer Articulation Planning for Community Colleges

For Indiana University

2003–2004 University Chancellor’s Advisory Committee

Updated November 2019 by Mark E. Helmsing, Ph.D. Page 16 College & Department Service

College of Education & Human Development, George Mason University

2019 Faculty Search Committee, Math Education Leadership Position 2018– Graduate School of Education Curriculum Committee Member 2018–2019 College of Education & Human Development New Faculty Committee Member 2017– SEED Partner School University Facilitator, Lake Braddock Secondary School

College of Education, University of Wyoming

2014-2016 NCATE SPA Report for Secondary Social Studies Education 2015–2016 College of Education Advisory Committee on Teacher Education 2015–2016 College of Education Assessment Committee 2015–2016 College of Education Diversity Advisory Committee 2014–2016 College of Education Scholarship Committee

College of Education, Michigan State University

2011–2013 Chair’s Advisory Council, Department of Teacher Education 2012–2013 Search Committee in Teacher Quality, Department of Teacher Education 2009–2011 Co-Coordinator, Safe Schools Program, College of Education

College of Education, College of Arts & Sciences, Indiana University

2002–2004 College of Education Dean’s Advisory Council 2002–2004 College of Education Diversity Advisory Committee 2002–2004 Board of Educational Programming, Collins Living-Learning Center

Service to Community

2014–2016 Judge and Project Consultant for National History Day in Wyoming

2015–2016 Curriculum Consultant for Teaching Wyoming History Project, Wyoming Council for the Humanities

2015–2016 Steering Committee for Wyoming Geographic Alliance

2013 Curriculum Consultant for National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Africa in World History, Michigan State University

MEDIA APPEARANCES

2019 “Creating a hub for Holocaust education at Mason.” https://cehd.gmu.edu/news/stories/creating-a-hub-for-holocaust-education-at- mason?mc_cid=b0226bae8a&mc_eid=97af4774a5

Updated November 2019 by Mark E. Helmsing, Ph.D. Page 17 2018 “Episode 94: Keywords in the Social Studies with Dan Krutka, Annie Whitlock, & Mark Helmsing.” A podcast published by Visions of Education. November 4, 2018 episode. https://visionsofed.com/2018/11/04/episode-95-keywords-in-the- social-studies-with-dan-krutka-annie-whitlock-mark-helmsing/.

2018 “Episode 81: Curriculum Theory with Mark Helmsing.” A podcast published by Visions of Education. June 8, 2018 episode. https://visionsofed.com/2018/06/08/episode-81-curriculum-theory-with-mark- helmsing/

2016 “A discussion on historical interpretation.” Video published by University of Wyoming Literacy Research Center and Clinic: http://www.uwyo.edu/education/lrcc/conferences%20and%20events/visiting- professors.html

2016 “New UW Energy Education Initiative to Aid Wyoming K-12 Students.” http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2016/09/new-uw-energy-education-initiative-to- aid-wyoming-k-12-students.html

2015 “Helmsing participates in Project Citizen workshop, promotes civic engagement, prepares social studies educators.” Story published by College of Education’s Dean’s Office College News: http://www.uwyo.edu/education/deans- office/college-news/2015/helmsing-social%20studies%20ed.html

2015 “Helmsing promotes civic engagement, prepares next generation of social studies educators.” Story published in the Spring 2015 issue of The Blackboard: no website available

2014 “Mark Helmsing: Teaching the Teachers.” Story online published on Michigan State University 360 Perspective: Voices and Viewpoints web series: http://msutoday.msu.edu/360/2014/mark-helmsing-teaching-the-teachers/

2014 “Stories in Flux.” Story published for Spring 2014 issue of Michigan State University’s College of Education’s publication New Educator: http://edwp.educ.msu.edu/new-educator/2014/stories-in-flux/

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

National Council for the Social Studies American Educational Research Association American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies Popular Culture Association

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