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Contact Information:
Dr. Laura Westhoff
Assistant
Professor, Department of History and Division of Teaching and Learning
University of Missouri
- St. Louis
467 Lucas Hall
One University Blvd.
St. Louis, Mo 63121
Phone: (314) 516-5692
Email: WesthoffL@msx.umsl.ed
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Laura M. Westhoff
Dr. Westhoff is an
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Division of Teaching
and Learning, University of Missouri-St. Louis.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Washington University
in St. Louis, 1999.
PREVIOUS FACULTY
POSITIONS
Lecturer, Department of
History, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1999.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
United States Progressive Era social
reform, U.S. social and intellectual history; history of education; history education.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
“The Popularization of Knowledge: John Dewey on Experts and American
Democracy,” History of Education Quarterly, 35 (Spring 1995),
27-47.
Book review for Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society.
[Unpublished doctoral dissertation: “’A Fatal Drifting Apart’:
Social Knowledge and Civic Identity in Chicago Social Reform,
1890-1907.”]
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND
AWARDS
Small Grants Awards,
University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2000, 2001, 2002.
Research Board Award,
University of Missouri, 2001.
Participant, “Digital Urban
History Project,” funded by the U.S. Department of Education,
2001-03.
Participant, “Virtual City
Project,” funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,
2001-2004.
Senior Teaching Fellow,
Washington University in St. Louis, 1997.
Dean’s Award for Teaching
Excellence, Washington University in St. Louis, 1997.
Newberry Library Short-term
Resident Fellow, 1995.
Mellon Fellow, Washington
University in St. Louis, 1993-95.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- Panel Participant, “New
Frontiers in Digital History Instruction,” annual meeting of the
Organization of American Historians, Memphis, 2003.
- “Social Knowledge,
Politics, and the Civic Federation of Chicago,” presented at the
annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago,
2003.
- Discussant,
“Progressivism: Varieties and Impacts,” annual meeting of the
History of Education Society, Yale University, 2001.
- Chair, “Using Oral History
in the Classroom,” annual meeting of the Oral History Association,
St. Louis, 2001.
- “When the Audience is
Future Teachers: Rethinking History Teacher Preparation,” paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Organization of American
Historians, Los Angeles, 2001.
- “The Cognitive
Transformation from History Student to History Teacher,” paper
presented at the Qualitative Research Conference, St. Louis, 2001.
- “’Such a Piece of Business
Folly’: The Educational Aspects of Labor Arbitration,” paper
presented at the annual meeting of the History of Education Society,
San Antonio, 2000.
- “’A Fatal Drifting Apart’:
Social Knowledge and Civic Identity in 1890s Chicago,” paper
presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research
Association, 1997.
- “’A Decade of Economic
Discussion’: the Moral Economy of Chicago in the 1890s,” paper
presented at the Newberry Library Urban History Dissertation
Roundtable, 1996.
- “’To Serve as a Medium of
Acquaintance and Sympathy’: The Civic Federation of Chicago as an
Urban Educational Organization at the Turn-of-the-Century,” paper
presented at the annual meeting of the History of Education Society,
Minneapolis, 1995.
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