Joanna Elizabeth Batt

Joanna Batt is an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education in Social Studies at University of Cincinnati. Informed and inspired by her time as a high school teacher in Buffalo, NY, Dr. Batt is deeply passionate about the relationship of history teaching and social justice. She studies secondary social studies education with an emphasis on race, gender and sexuality, researching via feminist methods how critical history teaching and multimodal curricula centered in students' lives can support educational equity and student agency. Her work can be found in peer-reviewed journals such as Social Education, Middle Level Learning, and Texas Education Review; books such as Mindful Social Studies: Frameworks for Social Emotional Learning and Critically Engaged Citizens; and in popular media on the intersections of history, teaching and culture such as Not Even Past. Joanna received her B.A. in history from the University of Notre Dame, and her M.Ed. in language and literacy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She taught U.S. History for seven years, was a Donald D. Harrington Fellow at University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and has moderated racial literacy book clubs for middle schoolers in Buffalo, NY and Austin, TX.

Ph.D. : University of Texas at Austin (Curriculum and Instruction (Social Studies))

M.A.: Harvard Graduate School of Education (Language and Literacy)

B.A.: University of Notre Dame (History; French and Francophone Studies)