Faculty and Alumni

Margaret Crocco earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in American Civilization. She has taught American History, American Studies, and Women’s History at colleges in Maryland, Texas, and New Jersey. For eight years, she taught at a high school in New Jersey. Before coming to the University of Iowa, she was professor and coordinator of the Program in Social Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include teaching women’s history, social studies teacher education, and multicultural education.

As a member of the social studies education program Bruce Fehn teaches a course on secondary school social studies methods. In the course students learn how to use simulations, movies, role playing and other teaching strategies. He also teaches a graduate seminar titled “History Teaching and Learning. In the seminar graduate students examine research on how and why history teachers use documentary films, graphic novels, and other resources to teach history. Recently, Professor Fehn began to offer a course titled “Disabilities and Historical Documentary Making.” Students in the course team with disabled adults to actually produce documentaries. After teaching for seven year in the United States, Greece and Spain, he earned his PhD in history at the University Wisconsin-Madison in 1991. Professor Fehn has published articles in the areas of women’s history, African-American history, history education, and documentary making in elementary and secondary classrooms.