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Deborah L Michaels serves as Associate Professor and Department Chair of Education Studies at Grinnell College, teaching History of Education, International and Comparative Education, General Teaching Methods, and Social Studies Methods while mentoring student teachers pursuing secondary-school licenses in social studies disciplines including history, government, psychology, sociology, and economics.
She holds a B.S. from Cornell University and M.A./Ph.D. in Educational Foundations and Policy from the University of Michigan. Her research centers on national identity politics and exclusion of minorities in schooling, with significant work on Holocaust education in post-socialist Europe and inclusive history teaching incorporating indigenous perspectives through collaboration with Iowa's Meskwaki Community.
Dr. Michaels has received major recognition including:
- National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship (2013-2014)
- Fulbright Fellowship (2004-2005)
- US State Department Speaker Grant (2006)
- Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2006-2007)
Current projects include the book "Revising the Nation: Citizenship and Belonging in Slovak Schooling, 1910-2010" funded by the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation, alongside ongoing research on indigenous perspectives in historical education.
