Dr. Richard Hughes
Professor and Acting Chair
Ofc International Engagement
Office
Schroeder Hall - SCH 302B
Office Hours
Fall 2023: Wednesdays 3-4 pm and By Appointment
Office Phone
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Current Courses
290.001History-Social Science Teaching Methodology I
290.002History-Social Science Teaching Methodology I
400.001Independent Study
100.001Introduction to History
Teaching Interests & Areas
Professor Hughes teaches courses in both United States history and history education and currently serves as the director of the Secondary History and Social Sciences program. Before obtaining his graduate degrees, he taught history, government, and economics at Southern High School in Durham, North Carolina and has served as a reader for the College Board's Advanced Placement U.S. History exam. His research interests include twentieth-century social and cultural American history and the scholarship of teaching and learning with a focus on the evolving disciplinary understandings of history teachers and teacher candidates. He has published book chapters and articles in The Oral History Review, The Historian, The History Education Research Journal, The History Teacher, Social Education, The Social Studies, and Social Studies Research and Practice. He has also served on the editorial board of Teaching History: A Journal of Methods. Most recently, he has co-authored a chapter on teaching history in the United States and the United Kingdom in the forthcoming volume of The International Review of History Education.
Research Interests & Areas
20th Century America Social History, History Education
Ph D History
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
MA History
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Other
St. Edward's University
Austin, Texas
BA Political Science
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Influential and Inspirational Teaching Award
Department of History
2022
Influential and Inspirational Teacher Award
Department of History
2022
Influential and Inspirational Faculty Award
Department of History
2021
Impact Award
University College, Ilinois State University
2021
Influential and Inspirational Faculty Award
Department of History
2020
Influential and Inspirational Faculty Award
Department of History
2020
Influential and Inspirational Faculty Award
Department of History
2019
Influential and Inspirational Teaching Award
2018
Nomination - Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching
Baylor University
2018
Outstanding University Teacher Award
Illinois State University
2018
Book Review
Hughes, R. Review of Going to College in the Sixties, by John Thelin. Jessamyn Neuhaus (EDs). Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 47 (2022): 69-70.
Hughes, R. The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I. Great Plains Quarterly 41.1-2 (2022): 170-171.
Hughes, R. Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement. Benjamin H.Irvin (EDs). Journal of American History 108.4 (2022): 879-880.
Hughes, R. Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America. Sarah Drake Brown (EDs). Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 46.1 (2021): 37-39.
Hughes, R. The Great Texas Social Studies War of 1961-1962. Shirley Marie McCarther (EDs). American Educational History Review 48.1 (2021): 83-87.
Book, Chapter
Hughes, R., Hawkins, M., & Lopez, K. History, Literacy, and Popular Culture: Using Graphic Novels to Teach the Struggle for Racial Justice. Edward Janek and Ludovic A. Sourdot (EDs), Educating through Popular Culture: “You’re Not Cool Just Because You Teach with Comics". Lexington Books (2017)
Journal Article
Hughes, R., & Shields, T. Propaganda and the 1936 Olympics: History, News Literacy, and Selling Nazi Germany to American Tourists. Jennie Bauduy (EDs). Social Education 85.3 (2021): 180-185.
Richard Hughes and Sarah Drake Brown. Collective memory and historical narratives: The African American civil rights movement. History Education Research Journal. Vol. 18(2):166-182. DOI: 10.14324/HERJ.18.2.03
Hughes, R. Why Teach History. Grace Leatherman (EDs). History Matters 32.6 (2020)
Hughes, R., & Mendoza, N. Assessment in the History Classroom. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 44.2 (2019): 51-56.
Hughes, R. New Guidelines for SoTL in History: A Discipline Considers the SoTL Turn?. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 44.2 (2019): 34-43.
Presentations
SoTL Research and the Tenure and Promotion of Historians. Annual Meeting. American Historical Association. (2022)
What Does a History Teacher Do?: Knowing, Understanding, and Enacting the Work of Teaching History. History teachers’ epistemic considerations A symposium on how teachers make sense of histo. University of Umea. (2022)
Civil Rights and Historical Narratives: Assessing Students as Emerging Teachers. Annual Conference of the Organization of American Historians. Organization of American Historians. (2021)
Teaching LGBTQ + History: An Inclusive Approach. Annual Spring Symposium on Teaching History and the Social Sciences. Regional Office of Education, McLean County Museum of History, Department of History. (2020)
Encountering History and History Instruction: Perceptions of Emerging Teachers. SoTL Commons Conference: A Conference of Teaching and Learning. (2019)
From Epistemological Architecture to Clinical Experiences: Teaching History Across Settings. ISSOTL 2019. International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. (2019)
Images, Collective Memory, and Forging Historical Narratives: A Study of Teaching and Learning the African American Civil Rights Movement. HEIRNET 2019 Annual Conference. History Educators International Research Network (HEIRNET). (2019)
Navigating Historical Maps: Teaching Geographic and Historical Thinking. 2019 Annual Conference. National Council for the Social Studies. (2019)
Propaganda and the 1936 Olympics: History, News Literacy, and Selling Nazi Germany to American Tourists. 2019 Annual Conference. National Council for the Social Studies. (2019)
Taking Your Teaching to the Next Level: The Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW). Symposium on Teaching and Learning. Illinois State University. (2019)
Grants & Contracts
Reorienting the Past: Impact of a Survey course on Teaching and Learning History. Center for Integrated Faculty Development- SoTL Research Grants (URGs). Illinois State University. (2022)
College of Arts and Sciences International Travel Grant. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2019)
SoTL Travel Grant. Cross Chair for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Illinois State University. (2019)
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Travel Grant. Cross Chair for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Illinois State University. (2018)
History Teacher Candidates and Discipline-Specific Pedagogy: Theory, Policy, and Practice in England and the United States. Illinois State University: Office of the Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning , SoTL Mini-Grant, FY16. Illinois State University. (2015)