Faculty

David Voelker, Associate Professor and Chair

David Voelker

Education: B.A., Hanover College; M.A., Ph.D., Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Emphases: Colonial America, early American republic, and American thought.

Office: 377 Theatre Hall

Phone: 920.465.2491

E-mail: voelkerd@uwgb.edu

Web Site: https://blog.uwgb.edu/voelkerd/

Articles:

  • “Clicking for Clio: Using Technology to Teach Historical Thinking,” Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (Dec. 2009): 30–32.
  • “Church Building and Social Class on the Urban Frontier: The Refinement of Lexington, 1784–1830,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 106 (Spring 2008): 191–229.
  • “From Learning History to Doing History: Beyond the Coverage Model,” co-authored with Joel Sipress, in Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind, pp. 19–35, edited by Regan Gurung, Nancy Chick, and Aeron Haynie (Stylus Publishing, 2008).
  • “Cincinnati’s Infernal Regions Exhibit and the Waning of Calvinist Authority,” American Nineteenth Century History 9 (September 2008): 219–39.
  • “Assessing Student Understanding in Introductory Courses: A Sample Strategy,” History Teacher 41 (August 2008): 505–18.
  • “Religious Sects and Social Reform,” in Perspectives in American Social History Series: Jacksonian and Antebellum Eras, ed. Mark R. Cheathem (Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2008).
  • "Blogging for Your Students", AHA Perspectives (May 2007).

Awards:

  • Instructional Development Award, “Doing History in the Classroom: Using ‘Clicker’ Exercises to Develop Historical Thinking,” Instructional Development Council, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, 2008–09
  • Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, UW System, 2006-2007
  • Research Council Grant for Integrating Research and Teaching, 2005-6.
  • UWGB Teaching Scholar, 2004-05