New Editorial Team

Dear Readers,

After more than five years I am stepping down as Lead Editor of ASSERT. With me, Associate Editor Linda Doornbos is also taking her leave. We are edified that the journal has been as successful as it has in such a short period of time. We have published 12 issues, and more than 50 articles that have covered a diverse array of topics that matter to teachers. At last count, our articles have been downloaded more than 62,000 times since we first published in September, 2020.    In our place, Dr. Peter M. Nelson, who has been serving diligently as Copy Editor of ASSERT will step into the role of Lead Editor. While Dr. B. Scott Durham will serve as Associate Editor.    Dr. Peter M. Nelson is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia. Originally from central Maine, Peter completed his undergraduate studies at North Park University in Chicago, IL and earned his Master’s Degree from Northwestern University in 2013. He taught elementary and secondary social studies in Chicago before beginning graduate work at Michigan State University, earning his Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education in 2021. Peter’s scholarship and teaching is situated within philosophy of education, curriculum studies, social studies education, and teacher education, and his work has been published in a range of scholarly journals and edited books, including Theory & Research in Social Education, Democracy & Education, the Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy, and the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. At UBC, Peter serves as the Social Studies Education Area Coordinator and teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
  Dr. B. Scott Durham is an Assistant Professor of Social Studies Education at Kent State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education from Michigan State University. Currently, he teaches social studies methods courses and introductory courses on social justice and the principles of education. His research interests include new materialism, the use of technology, including A.I., in the process of learning and becoming, and Native American onto-epistemologies. He currently serves as the vice-president of the Social Science Education Consortium.   I am confident in their capabilities and their support for the unique offering we have cultivated over these years. Under their editorship I expect that the journal will continue to flourish and grow in new and interesting directions. I am grateful to be leaving it with such confidence, and I trust that they will continue to provide you, our readers, with excellent issues that provide teachers with thoughtful and practical scholarship to deepen their teaching practices.   Thank you for your patronage and support which have helped to make ASSERT what it is.    Sincerely, Cory Wright-Maley Professor of Education Founding Editor of ASSERT