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Sara Evers is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education & CAEP Coordinator and Program Support Specialist at Ferrum College.She 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. She also works as an Educational Consultant for the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program.Her research interests include:
• historical thinking and historical consciousness
• pedagogical decision making
• curriculum studies
• technology use for teaching and learning historySara's current projects include an analysis of teachers' discourse about inquiry in online forums. She is part of the History Education for the Techno-Curious group https://genaiinhistoryeducation.com/. Sara is interested in GenAI as a social technology and her future research will examine how GenAI shapes teachers' attitudes and instructional decisions regarding the assessment of historical knowledge.

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Recent publication:

Evers, 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/10.1080/00933104.2025.2469495

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