Faculty

Diana Turk

Associate Professor and Director of Social Studies Education

Diana Turk

Phone: 212-998-5492
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Diana Turk received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland at College Park. She has been a member of the Department of Teaching and Learning's Social Studies Program since August 1999. She brings to her work in teacher education a passion for civic engagement and a commitment to teaching history for democratic change. She is a co-author of the forthcoming Teaching U.S. History: Dialogues Between Teachers and Historians (Routledge Press, 2010) and the author of Bound by a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920 (New York University Press, 2004) and of several articles on innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to teaching history and social studies.


Selected Presentations

  • Technology-Based Lessons for Technologically-Shy Teachers – and Students
  • Making Social Studies Come Alive: A Workshop for Tutors
  • "An Old Hot Comb and a New Website: Using Technology to Teach History with
  • Community History and Oral History: Using Oral History in a High School Social Studies Classroom
  • Web-Based Technologies in the Social Studies Classroom (participant)
  • WebQuest Workshop: Integrating Technology into Social and Environmental Studies
  • "American Studies as Civic Education: Combating Apathy and Disenfranchisement Among Urban, Disadvantaged High School Students"
  • Technology in the Classroom (participant)

Degrees Held

  • B.A. Hamilton College 1990
  • M.A. University of Maryland, College Park 1993
  • Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park 1999

Awards

  • 1999 : Teaching Excellence Award, NYU School of Education
  • 2001 : Research Challenge Award, NYU School of Education
  • 2004 : Robert H. Michels Civic Education Award - Dirksen Foundation
  • 2004 : Curriculum Challenge Fund Award
  • 2002 : Goddard Faculty Fellowship Award, NYU School of Education

Selected Publications

  • Bound By A Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920, NYU Press 2004 (link)
  • "Jewish Students." Women in Higher Education: An Encyclopedia, edited by Ana M. Martinez-Aleman and Kristin A. Renn: ABC-CLIO, 2002
  • Debating War and Peace in Washington Square. Social Education 65 (7), with R Cohen and E Klein
  • Single Sex Education in K-12 Schools. Dictionary of American History (3rd edition), edited by Stanley Kutler. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003.
  • Women's Colleges. Dictionary of American History (3rd edition), edited by Stanley Kutler. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003.
  • The Turn of the Millennium. Social Education 65 (7) 1999: 433-435, with Robert Cohen.
  • "College Students." Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, edited by P. Hyman and D. Moore. New York: Routledge Press, 1998.
  • Nantucket Tourism. Encyclopedia of New England Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Courses

  • SOCED-GE 2146 - MA Seminar in Social Studies: Teaching Social Studies for Democratic Change 
  • SOCED-GE 2042 - Methods in Social Studies Teaching
  • SOCED-GE 2140 - Culminating Seminar in Social Studies
  • SOCED-GE 2304 - The City as Resource in Historical Inquiry
  • SOCED-GE 2301 - Development of Urban America
  • SOCED-UE 1135 - Current Trends and Problems in Social Studies Education
  • HSED-GE 2067 - History of American Higher Education
  • SOCED-GE 2047 - Social Studies Curriculum: US History
  • SOCED-UE 1073 - US History and Geography, 1865-Present

Research Interests

  • teaching history for democratic change
  • civic education
  • 19th and 20th Century U. S. History
  • social studies curriculum and instruction
  • women's history
  • ethnography & oral history
  • material culture
  • technology in social studies classrooms