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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)
Harris, L. M., Martell, C. C., Chalmers, J., & Lee, J. S. (in press). "I was in the
room where it happens": Educator agency and community within state social
studies standards committees. Theory & Research in Social Education.
(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)
Martinelle, R., Martell, C. C., & Chalmers-Curren, J. P. (in press). Teaching for transformative citizenship: A study of preservice social studies teachers' developing beliefs and practices. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice.
(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)
Martell, C. C. (in press). White elementary teachers and learning to teach race in the social studies classroom: A 6-year longitudinal study. Whiteness and Education.
(download pre-publication 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.
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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)
Conference Papers
Martell, C. C., Harris, L. M., Lee, J., Chalmers, J. P., & Carmichael, J. (2023). The role
of state standards committees in challenging or maintaining color-evasive social studies.
Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association,
Chicago, IL.
Martell, C. C. & Colquitt-Anderson, D. (2023). Learning to center different stories: Examining
teacher learning in an ethnic studies methods course. Presentation at the Annual Meeting
of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
Martell, C. C. & Martinelle, R. (2023). "(More than) A background idea": A self-study of
justice-oriented practices in social studies teacher education. Presentation at the Annual
Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
Sheppard, S., Harris, L. M., Levy, S., Hauver, J., Collins, T. ... Martell, C. C. (2022).
Teaching difficult histories in difficult times. Presentation at the Annual Conference of
the National Council for the Social Studies, Philadelphia, PA.
Harris, L. M., Martell, C. C., Chalmers, J. P., & Lee, J. (2022). "I was in the room where it
happens": Social studies state standards committees and educator agency. Presentation
at the Annual Meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly of
the National Council for the Social Studies, Philadelphia, PA.
Harris, L. M., Sheppard, S., Levy, S., Adu-Gyamfi, M., Collins, T. ... Martell, C. C.
(2022). Book talk: Teaching difficult histories in difficult times: Stories of practice.
Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National
Council for the Social Studies, Philadelphia, PA.
Martell, C. C. & Stevens, K. M. (2022). Book talk: Teaching history for justice. Paper presented
at the Annual Meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council
for the Social Studies, Philadelphia, PA.
Martell, C. C., Martinelle, R., & Chalmers-Curren, J. P. (2022). Barriers and pathways to
becoming a justice-oriented social studies teacher. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
Shreiner, T. L. & Martell, C. C. (2022). A critical race analysis of data visualizations in online
social studies curricular materials. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
Martell, C. C., Chalmers-Curren, J. P., & Martinelle, R. (2021). A longitudinal study of
beginning social studies teachers and critical historical inquiry. Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Orlando, FL.
Martell, C. C., Martinelle, R., & Chalmers-Curren, J. P. (2020). Teaching social studies for
justice: A study of the beliefs and practices of preservice teachers. Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the
Social Studies, Washington, DC.
Martinelle, R., Martell, C. C., & Chalmers-Curren, J. P. (2020). Learning to teach for
transformative citizenship: The beliefs and practices of preservice social studies teachers.
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association,
San Francisco, CA.
Stevens, K. M. & Martell, C. C. (2020). Feminist teachers' evolution towards gender equity in
uncertain times. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational
Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
Martell, C. C. (2020). How do teachers un-learn what they know? Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
Erickson, S., Dunne, K. A., & Martell, C. C. (2019). Social studies practices continuum: A tool
for improving inquiry-based instruction. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the National
Council for the Social Studies, Austin, TX.
Martinelle, R., Martell, C. C., & Chalmers, J. P. (2019). Teaching for democracy in multicultural
settings: A study of beginning teachers and citizenship education. Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Toronto, ON.
Martell, C. C., Carney, M. M., Marin, K. A., & Hashimoto-Martell, E. A. (2019). The
practitioner-academic research divide endures: A review of teacher research in the content
areas. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research
Association, Toronto, ON.
Martell, C. C. (2018). Learning to teach (or not teach) race: A longitudinal study of
beginning elementary teachers. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the College and
University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, Chicago, IL.
Manfra, M. M., Martell, C. C., Dinkleman, T., Hostetler, A., Mayo, J.B., Sequenzia, M. …
Hawley, T. (2018). The emancipatory potential of practitioner research in the social studies.
Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the
National Council for the Social Studies, Chicago, IL.
Martell, C. C. (2018). Longitudinal study of beginning elementary teachers’ beliefs and
inquiry-based practices in history. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.
Martell, C. C. (2017). Teaching race in U.S. history: Missing civil rights voices. Presentation
at the Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies, San Francisco, CA.
Martell, C. C., Alviar-Martin, T., Au, W., Baildon, M., Díaz Beltrán, A. C., Ducan, K. E., …
Cuenca, A. (2017). Current perspectives in social studies teacher education. Presentation at
the Annual Meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for
the Social Studies, San Francisco, CA.
Manfra, M. M., Martell, C. C., Dinkleman, T., Crowe, A., Cuenca, A., Hostetler, A. L., …
Schmidt, S. (2017). Practitioner research: Democratizing social studies research in troubling
times. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly of
the National Council for the Social Studies, San Francisco, CA.
Martell, C. C. & Sequenzia, M. R. (2017). Working the dialectics in teacher research and
social studies education. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational
Research Association, San Antonio, TX.
Amtzis, A., Martell, Martell, C. C., Lawton-Sticklor, N., Bodamer, S., & Sequenzia, M. R. (2017).
The Mobius strip: Exploring the recursive loop of teaching, doing and learning from
teacher research. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the New England Educational
Research Organization, Portsmouth, NH.
Bryson, J. R., Bien, A. C., Martell, C. C., & Gibbons, E. (2017). Immersive field-based
methods courses for preservice teachers. Presentation at the Massachusetts Department
of Elementary and Secondary Education Annual Instructional Support Convening,
Marlborough, MA.
Martell, C. C. & Stevens, K. M. (2016). Models of culturally relevant teaching in social
studies. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the College and University Faculty
Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, Washington, DC.
Chandler, P. T., Hawley, T., Bolgatz, J., Broome, J., Busey, C., Crowley, R., … Martell, C. C.
(2016). Book talk: Using inquiry to teach about race in social studies. Presentation at the
Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies, Washington, DC.
Martell, C. C. & Stevens, K. M. (2016). The beliefs and practices of race-conscious
social studies teachers. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational
Research Association, Washington, DC.
Martell, C. C. & Stevens, K. M. (2016). A survey of teachers’ perceptions of race and gender
in social studies. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational
Research Association, Washington, DC.
Stevens, K. M. & Martell, C. C. (2016). Gender equity in social studies: An analysis of
teachers’ beliefs and practices. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.
Martell, C. C. and Stevens, K. M. (2015). The personal and professional experiences of
race-conscious teachers. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the College and
University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, New Orleans, LA.
Martell, C. C. (2015). Uncovering the omitted past: Teaching race-related events in U.S.
history. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies,
New Orleans, LA.
Martell, C. C. (2015). Developing inquiry-based teaching practices: A 6-year longitudinal
study of history teachers. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
Martell, C. C. (2015). Learning to teach about race in elementary social studies. Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association,
Chicago, IL.
Martell, C. C. (2014). Examining social studies teachers’ beliefs about teaching race. Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the
National Council for the Social Studies, Boston, MA.
Stevens, K. M. & Martell, C. C. (2014). Teacher beliefs on gender in the sociology classroom.
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly
of the National Council for the Social Studies, Boston, MA.
Martell, C. C. (2014). Beyond slavery and civil rights: Teaching race in U.S. history.
Presentation at the Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies,
Boston, MA.
Chandler, P. T., Crowley, R., Finley, S., King, L., Shear, S. B., Vickery, A. … Martell, C. C.
(2014). Book talk: Doing race in social studies: Critical perspectives. Presentation at the
Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies, Boston, MA.
Kissling, M. T. & Martell, C. C. (2014). The state of the source: Scrutinizing speeches for
democratic citizenship. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the National Council
for the Social Studies, Boston, MA.
Young, C. R., Stevens, K. M., Sequenzia, M. R., & Martell, C. C. (2014). Using teacher
research in the social studies classroom. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the
National Council for the Social Studies, Boston, MA.
Martell, C. C. (2014). Teaching about race in a multicultural setting: Culturally relevant
pedagogy and the U.S. history classroom. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Martell, C. C. (2014). Action research as empowering professional development:
Examining a district-based teacher research course. Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Martell, C. C. (2013). Whiteness in the social studies classroom: Students’ conceptions of
race and ethnicity in U.S. history. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
Martell, C. C. (2012). Investigating the intersection of race and histories in the classroom.
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association,
Vancouver, BC.
Martell, C. C. (2012). Making meaning of constructivism: A longitudinal study of beginning
history teachers' beliefs and practices. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC.
Martell, C. C. & Hashimoto-Martell, E. A. (2011). Throwing out the history textbook:
Changing social studies texts and the impact on students. Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.
Martell, C. C. (2011). A longitudinal study of learning to teach history as interpretation.
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association,
New Orleans, LA.
Martell, C. C. (2011). Taking on the history textbook: A critical examination of texts used in a
social studies classroom. Paper presented at the University of Pennsylvania Ethnography in
Education Research Forum, Philadelphia, PA.
Martell, C. C. (2010). Barriers to historical inquiry: The disconnection between the beliefs and
classroom practices of preservice social studies teachers. Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social
Studies, Denver, CO.
Martell, C. C. (2010). Continuously uncertain reform effort: State-mandated history and
social science curriculum and the perceptions of teachers. Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.
Heald, S. C., Zavagnin, A. J., & Martell, C. C. (2009). Moving forward into the past: How
teachers teach and learn history. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the National
Council for the Social Studies, Atlanta, GA.
Martell, C. C. (2009). State-mandated history and social science curriculum framework and
the perception of teachers: A qualitative study. Paper presented at the Annual Conference
of the New England Educational Research Organization, Portsmouth, NH.
Martell, C. C., Heald, S. C., & Zavagnin, A. J. (2009). Moving forward into the past: Beginning
teachers' perceptions of learning and teaching history. Paper presented at the Annual
Conference of the New England Educational Research Organization, Portsmouth, NH.
Martell, C. C., Heald, S. C., & Zavagnin, A. J. (2009). Moving forward into the past: How do
teachers teach and learn history differently? Paper presented at the Harvard Graduate School
of Education Student Research Conference, Cambridge, MA.
White Papers
Manfra, M. M. Martell, C. C., Dinkelman, T., Hostetler, A. Mayo, J. B., Sequenzia, M., Crowe, A.
& Hawley, T. (2018). Moving our field formward: Practitioner research in social studies. Raleigh,
NC: North Carolina State University.
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Dissertation
Martell, C. C. (2011). Longitudinal analysis of teacher education: The case of history teachers.
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Boston University, Boston, MA.
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Research Projects
National Study on the State of Social Studies Teachers (2010). Leader, Massachusetts
Evidence Team
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