Professor of Educational Studies
Ripon College
300 Seward Street
Ripon, WI 54971
(920) 748-8387

E-mail: KirchmeierA@ripon.edu

Education

• B.A.in history and sociology, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
• M.A. in international affairs-Latin American and international development studies, American University-Washington, D.C.
• Ph.D. in social studies, social foundations and comparative and international education, University of Iowa-Iowa City

Awards and Honors

• Curriculum grants for work on global studies in K-12 education, and for creating a geography course
• FACE grant for sabbatical work in Chiapas, Mexico
• Global Partner Grant for travel to Kenya

Areas of Interest

• Social studies education
• Social foundations of education
• Comparative and international education
• Regional interests in Latin America and Africa

Recent Publications

• Paper presentation, "Education and Autonomy to Resist Obscurity or: Time Moves through Us. That's Why I can't Get There From Here," North Central Council of Latin Americanists Conference, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, October 2007.
• Paper presentation, co-written by Ripon College student Renea Vorpahl, "Exploring the Feasibility of Infusing International Studies Into and Throughout a Teacher Education Curriculum," Midwest Comparative and International Education Society Conference at Michigan State University-Lansing, Sept 23-25, 2005.
• Paper presentation, "Two Heroes of Resistance in the Past Teach Children of the Present to Transform the Future: The Tales of Jose Marti and Euclides da Cunha," Washington, D.C. (Comparative and International Education Society).
• Review: "Conflict of Interests: The Politics of American Education," by Joel Spring, McGraw Hill publisher.
• Book Review: "Education and Social Change," by John Rury for Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Book Review: "Colonial Subjects by Zachernuk," published in "History of Education Quarterly," vol. 41, no. 4 (Winter 2001).

Current Courses Taught

• EDU 190 State Schools and Globalization
• EDU 316 Middle School Education
• EDU 323 Social Studies for Elementary Teachers
• EDU 327 Education in Developing Countries
• EDU 344 Theory and Practice of Secondary School Teaching
• EDU 461 Student Teaching: Secondary
• EDU 471 Student Teaching Seminar