Department of History

Our Mission

Our mission is to strengthen and promote innovative history/social studies teaching in North Carolina and beyond. Our goal is to empower our majors for a successful career in 9-12 social studies education by: providing deep content knowledge, emphasizing curricular development and planning, emphasizing the use of digital-new media tools, and encouraging a more global perspective.

Our Work

Our program offers students a variety of professional courses aligned with our mission statement. In addition, our faculty and staff host a series of pre-professional seminar sessions (known as "Clio Talks") and work closely with local-area social studies teachers on various curriculum projects. All of our majors receive support and guidance from the Director, Program Advisor and Associate, and faculty in the Dept. of History -- especially during the capstone semester of clinical internship, or student teaching.

Contact us at: historyeducation@appstate.edu

Academic Content Supervisors observe their assigned student teacher twice a semester in partnership with Reich College of Education Supervisors who observe three times. Supervisors focus on content-specific pedagogy and history/social studies content knowledge within their observations. 

• Allison Fredette, fredettead@appstate.edu
• Jennifer Morris, morrisjf1@appstate.edu
• Bradley Phillis, phillisbj@appstate.edu
• Rwany Sibaja, sibajaro@appstate.edu
• Carrie Streeter, streeterca@appstate.edu
• Catherine Turner, turnerce@appstate.edu