Sam Wineburg

Sam Wineburg is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of History at Stanford University. Wineburg directs the Stanford History Education Group, a research and development effort aimed at improving history instruction (http://sheg.stanford.edu). His interdisciplinary scholarship sits at the crossroads of three fields: history, cognitive science, and education, and has been featured on C-SPAN, NPR, and WBUR-Boston, as well as in newspapers across the nation, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and USA TODAY. Educated at Brown and Berkeley, he taught at the high school and middle school levels before completing his Ph.D. at Stanford in Psychological Studies in Education. In 2002 his book, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past, won the Frederic W. Ness Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities for work that makes the most important contribution to the “improvement of Liberal Education and understanding the Liberal Arts.”