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Sara Evers is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education & CAEP Coordinator and Program Support Specialist at Ferrum College. She also works as an Educational Consultant for the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program and is president of the Virginia Council for History Education.Her research interests include:
• historical thinking and historical consciousness
• pedagogical decision making
• curriculum studies
• technology use for teaching and learning history
Sara's current projects include a content analysis of student-generated historical inquiry questions and curriculum building around student engagement in the historical read.Sara graduated with a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction for History and Social Science Education from Virginia Tech. Before pursuing her doctorate, she taught high school history in Virginia public schools.

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Recent publications:

Evers, S. & Wright-Maley, C. (2025). Simulating with Care: Some thoughts on mitigating the potential for harm in social studies simulations. Annals of Social Studies Education Research for Teachers, 7 (1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.29173/assert92Evers, S., Hicks, D., & Shelburne, S. (2025). Whose historical thinking? Representation of women in the Digital Inquiry Group’s Reading Like a Historian world history curriculum. Theory & Research in Social Education, 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2025.2469495Dissertation:
Evers (2025). Knowing History: A Study of the Construction and Implementation of Historical Knowledge from Theory to Practice. [Doctoral Dissertation, Virginia Tech]. https://hdl.handle.net/10919/129378

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