BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Katherine Perrotta received her Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning from Georgia State University (GSU), her M.A. in History from the City University of New York College of Staten Island, and her B.S. in Secondary Education from the State University of New York College at Oneonta. She was a Provost Dissertation Fellow at GSU, and recipient of the 2017 John Laska Distinguished Dissertation Award in Teaching from the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum. Dr. Perrotta is a former middle school social studies teacher in the New York City Department of Education. She is currently an Associate Professor of Middle Grades and Secondary Education with a Social Studies emphasis at Mercer University Tift College of Education in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research on historical empathy, social studies teaching methods, place-based education, local history research, and social studies teacher professional development have been published in leading journals such as The Journal of Social Studies Research, Social Studies Research and Practice, Social Education, Middle Level Learning, The Social Studies, Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, Educational Studies, and The American Educational History Journal.