Samuel J. Katz

Contact Information

Office: Phillips 214
Phone: 740-368-3563
E-mail: sjkatz@owu.edu

• Director, Adolescent to Young Adult and Multi-Age Programs
• Curriculum Vitae

Education

• B.A. History, Brown University (1994)
• M.Ed. Athletic Administration, University of Texas at Austin (1997)
• M.A. Teaching of Social Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University (1999)
• Ed.D. Curriculum and Instructional Leadership, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University (2005)

Biography

Dr. Katz serves as director of Ohio Wesleyan’s Adolescent to Young Adult and Multi-Age licensure programs. His teaching experience includes work in traditional, alternative, public and private schools in New York City and Nashville, Tennessee. His teaching interests include the historical and philosophical foundations of education, economic education, and social studies teaching methods. Dr. Katz’s research interests include civic education, democratic education, and the responsiveness of curriculum to political and historical events. His most recent work examined the response of teacher education to desegregation.

Courses

• EDUC 110: Role of the School
• EDUC 1906: Sport, Ethics, and Culture (Freshman Tutorial)
• EDUC 3002: Education and the Law
• EDUC 348/368: Social Studies Method
• EDUC 474: Being and Becoming a Professional: Secondary and PreK-12 Student Teaching Seminar
• HONS 1903: Zombies 101: What the Undead Teach

Professional Memberships

• National Council of Teachers of Social Studies (NCSS)
• Organization of Educational Historians
• National Social Science Association
• Kappa Delta Pi
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Pi Lambda Theta

Professional Interests

• History of Teacher Education
• Democratic/Civic Education
• National Standards in Education

Personal Interests

• Guitar, Mandolin
• Running
• Reading

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