Research
Presentations &
Publications
A summary of research and scholarly work by Christopher Martell:
 
Books
Martell, C. C., & Stevens, K. M. (2021). Teaching history for justice: Centering 
activism in students’ study of the past. Teachers College Press.
(purchase book)

Martell, C. C. (Ed.). (2018). Social studies teacher education: Critical issues 
and current perspectives. Information Age Publishing.
(purchase book)

Research Journal Articles (Refereed) 
Martell, C. C., Harris, L. M., Lee, J., Chalmers, J. P., & Carmichael, J. 
(in press). Silent covenants and structural barriers: State standards committees
and the maintenance of race-evasive social studies standards. AERA Open.
(download pre-publication article)

Martell, C. C., Chalmers, J. P., & Martinelle, R. (in press). Becoming and
remaining (un)critical: A longitudinal study of beginning history teachers.
American Educational Research Journal.
(download pre-publication article)

Martell, C. C., Martinelle, R., & Chalmers, J. P. (in press). Barriers and pathways to
enacting justice-oriented social studies: A longitudinal study of novice teachers. 
Urban Education.
(download pre-publication article)

Shreiner, T. L. & Martell, C. C. (in press). Making race and racism invisible:
A critical race analysis of data visualizations in online curricular materials
for teaching history. Race, Ethnicity and Education. (download pre-publication article) Harris, L. M., Martell, C. C., Chalmers, J., & Lee, J. S. (2024). "I was in the room where it happens": Educator agency and community within state social studies standards committees. Theory & Research in Social Education, 52(2), 163-189. (download article) Martinelle, R., Martell, C. C., & Chalmers-Curren, J. P. (2024). Teaching for
transformative citizenship: A study of preservice social studies teachers' developing
beliefs and practices. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 19(1), 77-94. (download article) Martinelle, R., Martell, C. C., & Chalmers-Curren, J. P. (2023). From rowing together
to rowing alone: Beginning teachers' beliefs and practices related to multicultural
democratic citizenship. Teacher Education Quarterly, 50(4), 54-73. (download article) Martell, C. C. (2023). White elementary teachers and learning to teach race in
the social studies classroom: A 6-year longitudinal study. Whiteness and Education,
8(2), 1-33. (download article) Martell, C. C. & Stevens, K. M. (2023). Teaching movements in history: Understanding
collective action, intersectionality, and justice in the past. The History Teacher,
56
(3), 343-366. (download article) Martell, C. C. (2022). A longitudinal study of beginning elementary teachers' beliefs
and inquiry-based practices in the history classroom. Teacher Development, 26(5),
627-643.
(download article) Martell, C. C., Martinelle, R. & Chalmers-Curren, J. P. (2022). "We need to
teach school differently": Learning to teach social studies for justice. The Journal
of Social Studies Research
, 46(4), 345-361. (download article) Martell, C. C., Carney, M. M., Marin, K. A., & Hashimoto-Martell, E. A. (2021). Whose research counts? Teacher research and the practitioner-academic divide. The Teacher Educator, 56(4), 399-426. (download article) Stevens, K. M. & Martell, C. C. (2021). Five years later: How the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the #MeToo Movement impacted feminist social studies teachers. Theory & Research in Social Education, 49(2), 201-226. (download article) Martell, C. C. (2020). Barriers to inquiry-based instruction: A longitudinal study of history teachers. Journal of Teacher Education, 71(3), 279-291. (download article) Martell, C. C., & Stevens, K. M. (2019). Culturally sustaining social studies teachers: Understanding models of practice. Teaching and Teacher Education, 86, 1-11. (download article) Stevens, K. M. & Martell, C. C. (2019). Feminist social studies teachers: The role of teachers’ backgrounds and beliefs in shaping gender-equitable practices. The Journal of Social Studies Research, 43(1), 1-16. (download article) Martell, C. C. & Stevens, K. M. (2018). Perceptions of teaching race and gender: Results of a survey of Massachusetts social studies teachers. The High School Journal, 101(4), 274-299. (download article) Martell, C. C. (2018). Teaching about race in U.S. history: Examining culturally relevant pedagogy in a multicultural urban high school. Journal of Education, 198(1), 63-77. (download article) Martell, C. C. & Stevens, K. M. (2017). Becoming a race-conscious social studies teacher: The influence of personal and professional experiences. The Social Studies, 108(6), 249-260. (download article) Martell, C. C. & Stevens, K. M. (2017). Equity- and tolerance-oriented teachers: Approaches to teaching race in the social studies classroom. Theory & Research in Social Education, 45(4), 489-516. (download article) Martell, C. C. (2017). Approaches to teaching race in elementary social studies: A case study of preservice teachers. The Journal of Social Studies Research, 41(1), 75-87. (download article) Martell, C. C. & Sequenzia, M. R. (2016). Working the dialectic: Teaching and learning teacher research in social studies. The Educational Forum, 80(4), 407-416. (download article) Martell, C. C. (2016). Divergent views of race: Examining whiteness in the U.S. history classroom. Social Studies Research and Practice, 11(1), 93-111. (download article) Stevens, K. M. & Martell, C. C. (2016). An avenue for challenging sexism: Examining the high school sociology classroom. Journal of Social Science Education, 15(1), 63-73. (download article) Martell, C. C. (2016). Teaching emerging teacher-researchers: Examining a district-based professional development course. Teaching Education, 27(1), 88-102. (download article) Martell, C. C. (2014). Building a constructivist practice: A longitudinal study of beginning history teachers. The Teacher Educator, 49(2), 97-115. (download article)  
Martell, C. C. (2013). Race and histories: Examining culturally relevant teaching in the U.S. history classroom. Theory & Research in Social Education, 41(1), 65-88. (download article) Martell, C. C. (2013). Learning to teach history as interpretation: A longitudinal study of beginning teachers. The Journal of Social Studies Research, 37(1), 17-31. (download article)
Practitioner Journal Articles (Refereed) Martell, C. C. & Stevens, K. M. (2022). Thinking like an activist in the history classroom.
Social Education, 85(5), 333-339. (download article) Erickson, S., Dunne, K. A., & Martell, C. C. (2021). Supporting quality social studies instruction: The social studies practices continuum. Social Studies Research and Practice,
16(2), 172-178. (download article) Kissling, M. T. & Martell, C. C. (2014). Analyzing the messages of the State of the Union Address. Social Education, 78(6), 269-272. (download article) Dunne, K. A. & Martell, C. C. (2013). Teaching America's past to our newest Americans: Immigrant students and United States history. Social Education, 77(4), 192-195. (download article)
Book Chapters Martell, C. C., & Stevens, K. M. (2022). Learning to teach history for justice: Racial literacies and teacher education. In L. J. King (Ed.), Racial literacies and social studies: Curriculum, instruction, and learning (pp. 181-194). Teachers College Press. (purchase book) Collins, T., & Martell, C. C. (2022). From praying towns to the National Day of Mourning: Centering Indigenous peoples' survivance and resistance within American history. In L. M. Harris, M. Sheppard, & S. A. Levy (Eds.), Teaching difficult histories in difficult times: Stories of practice (pp. 105-116). Teachers College Press. (purchase book) Martell, C. C., Bryson, J. R., & Chapman-Hale, W. C. (2017). Teaching racial inequity through the California Gold Rush. In P. Chandler & T. S. Hawley (Eds.), Race lessons: Using inquiry to teach about race in social studies (pp. 61-74). Information Age Publishing. (purchase book) Martell, C. C. (2015). Learning to teach culturally relevant social studies: A white teacher’s retrospective self-study. In P. Chandler (Ed.), Doing race in social studies: Critical perspectives (pp. 41-60). Information Age Publishing. (purchase book) Martell, C. C., & Hashimoto-Martell, E. A. (2012). Throwing out the textbook: A teacher research study of changing texts in the history classroom. In H. Hickman & B. J. Porfilio (Eds.), The new politics of the textbook: Critical analysis in the core content areas (pp. 305-320). Sense Publishers. (purchase book) For conference papers, white papers, dissertation, and other research projects see Curriculum Vitae here.