UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls

Faculty and Staff

Vesperman, Dean

2019 Dean Versperman

Dean Vesperman

Assistant Professor

Start Year: 2019

Teacher Education
Office: 403m Wimberly Hall
Phone: 608-785-8359

Email: dean.vesperman@uwrf.edu

Education:

History and International Studies – University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Teacher Licensure – University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Master of Education – Cardinal Stritch University
Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction – Indiana University

Courses Taught:

  • TED 100
  • TED 252
  • TED 433
  • TED 445
  • TED 468

Research Interests:

  • Democracy education
  • Civic education
  • Exploration of best practices in social studies education 
     

Professional Activities:

  • President of the Social Science Education Consortium, NCSS – Assignments Committee
  • NCSS House of Delegates
  • WCSS Board of directors – NW Wisconsin representative
  • Editor of the Iowa Journal for the Social Studies

Publications:

Blankenship, W. G., Aydinian-Perry, A., Vesperman, D. P., & Missias, M.T. (2024). Contextualizing socio-cultural STEM through historical figures and events. In Pryor C. R. and Kang, R. Socio-Cultural STEM for middle school: A model for student engagement and teacher collaboration. Rowan & Littlefield (in press). 

Vesperman, D. P., Aydinian-Perry, A., Blankenship, W. G., & Missias, M.T. (2024). Whose greatest story is ever told: Historical agency in evangelical Christian American history textbooks. In Allen, A., Kavanagh, A. M., and Ni Cassaithe, C. Moving Beyond a Single Story. Information Age Publishing (in press).

Smith H., Vesperman, D. P., Frederick, A. (2023). Preparing Teachers for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms. In Andrews, O. S. & Tomlin, A. D. When We Hear Them: Tools to Attune Teachers’ Ears to Voices of Language-Diverse Learners. Information Age Publishing (in press). 

Vesperman, D. P. & Pol, M. (2023). Teaching social studies in a time of COVID-19: an examination of contradictions in activity. In Vesperman, D. P., Aydinian-Perry, A., Blankenship, W. G., & Missias, M. T. Out of turmoil. Catalysts for re-learning, re-teaching, re-imagining history and social studies. Information Age Publishing. 57-72.  

Vesperman, D. P., Johnson, D., & Metcalf, A. (2022) A failure to implement: Evaluating race relations post Kerner Commission Report (1968). Oregon Journal for the Social Studies. 10(2). 44-63. 

Dr. Dean P. Vesperman