Christopher Martell on Social Studies and Education
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Teaching About Human Rights in the Trump Era (Avoiding the "Both-Sides Trap")

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    Above: Protests have regularly occurred in opposition to the Trump administration's attacks on U.S. democracy, growing authoritarian...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Teaching About Oligarchy in the United States

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Above: An 1889 cartoon "The Bosses of the Senate" by Joseph Keppler (Puck Magazine), which depicts wealthy oligarchs as money bag...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Five Quick Reads on Fighting Fascism

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Above: An image from the "Stop the Steal Rally" before the January 6th Capitol Insurrection which was an attempt to subvert the 20...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Why I Am Voting Yes on 2

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  Above: (Top) The Bolling Building, which is the headquarters of the Boston Public Schools. (Bottom) A student filing in a "bubble she...
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Christopher Martell
Christopher C. Martell is an Associate Professor at the College of Education and Human Development, University of Massachusetts Boston. His research focuses on social studies teachers in urban and multicultural contexts, and how they teach for social justice, use culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy, and engage their students in historical inquiry. He is the author of Teaching History for Justice: Centering Activism in Students' Study of the Past and the editor of Social Studies Teacher Education: Critical Issues and Current Perspectives. For most of his teaching career, he taught at Framingham High School, which is a racially and economically diverse urban school outside Boston with large immigrant populations from Brazil, Central America, and the Caribbean. Prior to his appointment at UMass Boston, he was a Clinical Associate Professor at Boston University. He is also a Boston Public Schools parent.
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