COE Faculty Profile

Laura M. Westhoff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Teaching and learning

Email: westhoffL@msx.umsl.edu
Office: 467 Lucas Hall
Phone: 314-516-5692

Fields of interest:

• Gilded Age and Progressive Era America
• History Education
• Social Reform and Social Movements
• American Women's History

Major publications:

• "Developing preservice teachers' pedagogical content knowledge about historical
  Thinking" International Journal of Social Education, Volume 22, Number 2 Fall-Winter 2007-2008
• A Fatal Drifting Apart: Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform
  (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2007)
• "The Historian's Role in Teacher Education," Perspectives, September 2006.
  "Education and Social Movements" in Encyclopedia of the Midwest (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007), 806-809.
• "The Popularization of Knowledge: John Dewey on Experts and American Democracy," History of Education Quarterly 35 (1): 27-48

Current research:

• "Educating for Activism" a study of mid-twentieth century American democratic and social justice movements

• History
• Social Studies Education