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Robert D. Johnston
Director of the University of Illinois at Chicago's Teaching of
History program
Robert D. Johnston is Director of the University of Illinois
at Chicago's Teaching of History program. He has also served as
associate professor of history at UIC since January 2003.
The child, nephew, and spouse of educators, Robert has long been
immersed in matters relating to teaching. He attended elementary
school in Fairview, Oregon and high school in Riverside, California.
He received his BA in History from Reed College in Portland,
Oregon and was granted the PhD in History from Rutgers University,
the State University of New Jersey, in 1993.
From 1991 to 1994, Robert taught as the sole United States historian
at Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa. He then moved to Yale
University, where he served as assistant and associate professor
from 1994 to 2002. From 1997 to 2000, he was the Director of Undergraduate
Studies in Yale's history department. While at Yale, Robert taught
in the Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute and was on the executive
committee of Yale College's Teacher Preparation Program. Also,
during the 2001-2002 academic year, he was a visiting professor
in the Department of American Studies at the Hebrew University
in Jerusalem.
Robert's scholarly specialty is twentieth-century political history,
with special attention to issues relating to class and medicine. Princeton
University Press published his book The Radical Middle Class:
Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive
Era Portland, Oregon in 2003. The Radical Middle Class won the 2002 President's
Book Award from the Social Science History Association. Robert
has also co-edited, with UIC's Burton J. Bledstein, The Middling
Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class
(Routledge, 2001) and, with Catherine McNicol Stock, The Countryside
in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America
(Cornell University Press, 2001). His edited collection, The Politics
of Healing: Essays in the History of Twentieth-Century North American
Alternative Medicine was published in 2004 by Routledge.
Robert's upper-elementary/middle school U.S. history textbook,
The Making of America: The History of the United States from 1492
to the Present (National Geographic Society), was named one of
the School Library Journal's Best Children's Books of 2002. Robert is also the primary American history
consultant for National Geographic children's books as well as the general editor for a series of middle school
books on new immigrants, to be published in 2006 by Chelsea House.
Robert has taught Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers in the Newberry Library's
Chicago History Project
and has been involved in a UIC College of Education Teaching
Quality Enhancement grant at South Side CPS high schools. He is also co-principal
investigator on a UIC College of Education National Endowment for the Humanities
grant on "Bringing Historical Census Data Alive," and he serves as a consultant
on historical art education for the Terra Foundation for the Arts.
Robert has been a guest several times on the Chicago Public Radio program "Odyssey"
and has reviewed books for the Chicago Tribune. He has also taught or given lectures in Hong Kong, China, Vietnam,
England, Norway, Turkey, and Israel.
Contact Robert Johnston
Julie L. Peters
Associate Director of the Teaching of History Program
Julie Peters is currently the Associate Director of the Teaching
of History Program. She is new to the program for the 2004-2005 school year; she is, however, not new to the program, having earned both her BA and MAT at UIC. We expect her energy and passion will
help the program to continue to grow and expand from her unique educational experiences.
Prior to her work at UIC, Julie taught secondary education history classes at a diverse collection
of local area high schools, including Woodstock High School and Neuqua Valley High School. Julie also served as
an Adjunct Faculty Member at the University of Phoenix in Schaumburg, IL. While there she was appointed an Area Chair,
in addition to her teaching courses in Humanities, Written Communications, and Social Science. Julie was also a
mentor to new faculty members, a position that will help her immensely in her new role of educating future teachers at UIC.
Julie's research interests and expertise are in American History and
Latin American History. Julie has also helped develop a high school text book,
History Alive! The United States (Teachers'
Curriculum Institute, 2002) as a Contributing Curriculum Developer.
Contact Julie Peters
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