LAURA JEANETTE DULL Associate Professor, Secondary Education
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LAURA JEANETTE DULL Associate Professor, Secondary Education EDUCATION Ph.D., 2003 New York University Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions M.A., 1989 Teachers College Teaching Social Studies, NYS Certification Columbia University B.A., 1984 Hiram College History, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa Additional Studies: 2010 Advanced Oral History Summer Institute, University of California, Berkeley 2006 Beginning Serbian Language, University of Novi Sad, Serbia 1993 Training course for law curriculum, Legal Outreach of New York 1991 Taft Seminar on Government, City University of New York 1991 Stock Market Game, New York Stock Exchange 1990 Japan: An Overview, Japan Society 1983 Hiram College Extramural Studies Program, Soviet Union 1982-1983 Institute of European Studies, Vienna, Austria Dissertation: “The Americans are coming”: Reverend Leon Sullivan’s Teachers for Africa Program in Peki, Ghana, Committee: Drs. P. Hosay, T. Moja and J. Zimmerman. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2009-present Associate Professor, SUNY New Paltz (1.0) 2003-2009 Assistant Professor, SUNY New Paltz (1.0) 2002 Lecturer, SUNY New Paltz (1.0) 2001-2002 Mentor, New York City Public Schools (0.5) 2000-2001 Teachers for Africa Volunteer, Peki Training College, Ghana (1.0) 1997-2000 Graduate Teaching Fellow, New York University (.25) 1997-2000 Adjunct Instructor, Baruch College, NY, NY (.25) 1996-1997 Practitioner-in-Residence, William Paterson University, NJ (1.0) 1995-1996 Social Studies Teacher, Landmark High School, NY, NY (1.0) 1989-1995 Social Studies Teacher, Lower East Side Prep, NY, NY (1.0) Courses I developed at New Paltz: SED593: Teaching Democracy and Citizenship SED564: Reconstructing Social Studies Using Diverse Perspectives HON323: West African Histories and Perspectives SED593: You, Your Students, Your School, and the Property Tax, with Dr. Benjamin Required courses I teach at New Paltz: SED354/540: Foundations of Social Studies SED701/702: Inquiry into Teaching, Learning, and School, I and II EDI798: Principles of Educational Research SED406: Student Teaching Seminar SED373/546: Teaching Social Studies Dull, 1 FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS 2013 Korea Society Spring Fellowship, study tour of Korea. 2012 New York Council on Asian Studies (NYCAS) Outreach Grant, co-written, $2000. 2010-2011 Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY New Paltz, $1250. 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for Summer Institute, Teaching the History of Political Economy, Duke University, $2700. 2009 Fellow, New Paltz Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Award to India, December- January, 2010. 2009 New Paltz Major Connections for talk by Tom Mounkhall on Teaching World History through Oaxaca, Mexico, March 26, $286. 2008-2009 Research and Creative Projects Award, $2275. 2007-2008 United University Professions (UUP) Professional Development Award, $1000. 2007 Fulbright Scholar Award, Serbia, Spring. 2006 Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave Program, SUNY/UUP Affirmative Action and Diversity Committee, Spring. 2006 UUP Professional Development Award, $1000. 2005 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, $10,000. 2004-2005 Research and Creative Projects Award, $2500. 1997-2000 New York University (NYU) Graduate Fellowship with tuition remission. 1999, 2000 NYU School of Education Grants for Conference Travel. 1995 NEH Fellowship, Summer Seminar for Teachers, Latin American Nationalism, San Jose State University. 1992 NEH Fellowship, Summer Seminar for Teachers, Foundations for Modern Political Philosophy: Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, Ramapo College, New Jersey. PUBLICATIONS Books Turk, D., Dull, L.J., Cohen, R., & Stoll, M., Eds. (2014). Teaching recent global history: Dialogues among historians, social studies teachers, and students. New York, NY: Routledge. Dull, L. J. (2006). Disciplined development: Teachers and reform in Ghana. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Refereed Journal Articles Dull, L. J. (2012). Teaching for humanity in a neoliberal world: Visions of education in Serbia. Comparative Education Review, 56(3), 511-533. Dull, L. J. (2009). ‘Some people don’t deserve help’: Service learning in Serbia. Intercultural Education, 20(1), 51-60. Dull, L. J., & Murrow, S.E. (2008). Is dialogic questioning possible in social studies? Theory and Research in Social Education, 36(4), 391-412. Dull, L. J., & van Garderen, D. (2005). Putting the story back into history: Teaching social studies to students with disabilities. Preventing School Failure, 49(3), 27-31. Dull, L. J. (2004). Democracy and discipline in Ghanaian education. International Journal of Educational Development, 24(3), 303-314. Dull, L. J. (2004). Friendly Africans, deceptive white men: Ghanaian narratives of the nation. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 4(1), 2-18. Book Chapters Dull, 2 Dull, L.J., with B. Condesso & D. Vandervloed. (2014). On revolution and rights: China’s cultural revolution. In D. Turk, L.J. Dull, R. Cohen, & M. Stoll, Teaching recent global history: Dialogues among historians, social studies teachers, and students. New York, NY: Routledge. Turk, D., Dull, L.J., & M. Stoll, with B. Rawson. (2014). Struggling for social democracy: Latin American visions and Cold War U.S. resistance. In Teaching recent global history: Dialogues among historians, social studies teachers, and students. Dull, L.J., with M. Lewis & A. Sosa. (2014). Up from colonialism: Change and continuity in Africa. In Teaching recent global history: Dialogues among historians, social studies teachers, and students. Dull, L. J. (2005). From dictatorship to democracy? Educational reform in Ghana. In A. T. Al- Bataineh & M. A. Nur-Awaleh (Eds.), International education and contemporary education reforms (pp. 69-82). Lanham, MD: University Press of America. Articles for Practitioners Wagner, A., Mavrikis, P., and Dull, L.J. (2014). Do the advantages of nuclear energy outweigh the risks? Social Science Docket, 14(1), 29-30. Dull, L. J. (2011). Teaching about school funding in good times and bad. Social Science Docket, 11(1), 17-19. http://people.hofstra.edu/alan_j_singer/docket-2011-1.html Dull, L. J. (2008). The scramble for Africa: An exercise in literacy and history. Social Science Docket, 8(2), 72-73. http://faculty.newpaltz.edu/lauradull/files/SS-Docket-Scramble.pdf Dull, L. J. (2004). Interpreting the present as an archeologist: An introductory social studies activity. Trends and Issues (Florida Council for the Social Studies), Summer, 35-36. http://faculty.newpaltz.edu/lauradull/files/Trends-and-Issues.pdf Book Reviews, Conference Proceedings, and Newsletters Dull, L.J. (2013). “Why not rest a bit before you rush on?” Toward Globalization of Korean Studies (Newsletter, Center for International Affairs, Academy of Korean Studies) 104. http://www.ikorea.ac.kr/webzine/1303/column_eng.asp Dull, L. J. (2009). Learning for life in Serbia. In N. Popov et al. (Eds.), Comparative education, teacher training, education policy, social exclusion, and child psychology (pp. 248-252). Sofia, Bulgaria: Bureau of Educational Services for the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society. Dull, L. J. (2005). Stereotypes and sermonizing in Sudan [Review of the book Acts of faith, by P. Caputo]. Anniston Star, 12 June, 4E. Dull, L. J. (2005). When archives fall silent [Review of the book Imperial reckoning: The untold story of Britain’s gulag in Kenya, by C. Elkins]. Anniston Star, 1 May, 4E. Dull, L. J. (2003). Mma. Ramotswe steps discreetly over life’s hurdles [Review of the book The Kalahari typing school for men, by A. M. Smith]. Anniston Star, 10 August, 4E. Dull, L. J. (2002). Allegorical touches in a classic African tale [Review of the book The God who begat a Jackal by N. Mezlekia]. Anniston Star, 3 March, 4F. Dull, L. J. (1999). Book review [Review of the book Race against Empire: Black Americans and anticolonialism 1937-1957, by P. von Eschen]. Journal of American Studies, 33(3), 556-7. Curricula and Other Publications Dull, L.J., & Fallek, M. (2010). Diversity and tolerance in the New World (American history curriculum): http://www.newpaltz.edu/crreo/diversity_unit/ Dull, L.J., et al. (2006). Justice for all? Property taxes and schools (economics curriculum): http://www.newpaltz.edu/crreo/lincoln/ Dull, L.J. (2004). Letter to the editor. Social Education, October. Dull, L.J. (2001). Stolen childhoods: Children fighting wars for adults (curriculum for United Nations): http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/childsoldiers/webquest/index.asp Lesson plans on civic education for Education for Democracy project funded by the Dirksen Congressional Foundation (Summer 2000). Dull, 3 PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS Invited Talks and Workshops 2014 The Constitution in the classroom: A ‘Teach-In’ with US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, NY Historical Society, April 12 (paid) 2014 Yevu in Africa: The importance of discipline and other lessons from research in Ghana, Teachers College Doctoral Colloquium, March 11 (paid) 2011 Expressing your opinions in public: How much is too much, American Corner, Vranje, Serbia, April 5 2011 Sojourner Truth: Myths and memories, American Corner, Vranje, March 9 2011 India: Diversity and democracy, American Corner, Vranje, Feb. 17 2009 Roundtable, Henry Hudson, the settlement of New Netherland, and Atlantic history Conference, On Campus at SUNY New Paltz (television production), August 2009 Presentations in English, Pedagogical Institute, University of Belgrade, June 12 (paid) 2008 Panelist, A puppet show and cantastoria based on Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States,” SUNY New Paltz, Nov.