Prof. Sam Wineburg,
Stanford University

Prof. Wineburg's work stands at the interdisciplinary crossroads of education, cognitive science, and history.  He studied religion and history at Brown and Berkeley, writing an honors thesis on Sefer Hasidim with Danny Matt in 1982.  He went on to teach in public and Jewish schools, and in 1989 completed a doctorate in Psychological Studies in Education at Stanford under Lee Shulman. He spent the next twelve years at the University of Washington, where he was Professor, Cognitive Studies in Education, and Adjunct Professor, Department of History.  For his sabbatical in 1997-98 he spent the year in Metulla (Israel), while serving as Visiting Professor at the University of Haifa and studying kabbalah with Rabbi Dovid Freedman of Tzfat.
In 2002 he returned to Stanford as Professor of Education.  His book, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past was the 2002 Frederic W. Ness Award winner from the Association of American Colleges and Universities, given to the book that contributes most to the "improvement of Liberal Education and understanding the Liberal Arts."