PhD, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - 1994
MA, Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - 1989
BA, International Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA - 1985
Tom Schrand, PhD
Acting Dean, College of Humanities & Sciences
Associate Dean for General Education
Professor of History
Contact Information
Jefferson - East Falls Campus
205 Ravenhill Mansion
310 Search Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19144
Acting Dean, College of Humanities & Sciences
Associate Dean for General Education
Professor of History
Education
Publications
- Reflecting on Reflections: Curating ePortfolios for Integrative Learning and Identity Development in a General Education Senior Capstone. International Journal of ePortfolios. Vol. 8, No. 1, 2018. (with Valerie Hanson and Katharine Jones)
- Design Thinking as a Strategy for Consensus in General Education Reform, Peer Review, Summer 2016, Vol. 8, No. 3.
- Exploring Response Cultures in the World of WAC, The WAC Journal, Vol. 21, November 2010 (co-author: John Eliason).
- The Obshchestvennitsa Movement, in Encyclopedia of the Russian Women's Movement, Norma Noonan and Carol Nechemia, editors. Greenwood Press, 2003 (co-author: Rebecca Balmas-Neary).
- Socialism in One Gender: Masculine Values in the Stalin Revolution, in Russian Masculinities in History and Culture, Barbara Evans Clements, Rebecca Friedman and Dan Healey, editors. Palgrave, 2002.
- True Mistresses of Their Homes: Rehabilitating the Housewife for Soviet Civil Defense, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 25, No. 1 (1998).
- Utopianism and the equity path to sustainability
- Specialization Clusters as a Design for Sustainability Education: A Flexible Approach to Preparing Undergraduates for Evolving and Diversifying Fields of Practice
- Teaching sustainability 101: How do we structure an introductory course?
- Feedback practices and signature pedagogies: What can the liberal arts learn from the design critique?
- Roundtable: Sustainability as an academic discipline: Educators discuss majors, minors, market demand, and the overlap with environmental science
- Tapping into Active Learning and Multiple Intelligences with Interactive Multimedia: A Low-Threshold Classroom Approach
- Soviet "civic-minded women" in the 1930s: gender, class, and industrialization in a socialist society.
- The five-year plan for women's labour: Constructing socialism and the 'Double burden', 1930-1932
Awards
Lindback Award for Teaching
President’s Distinguished Teaching Award
Research Interests
My research interests have evolved over the course of my career, covering topics such as gender divisions of labor during the Stalin-era industrialization drive, pedagogical research on peer review practices and curriculum development, the role of equity and utopianism in sustainability theory, and the impacts of generative AI on pedagogy in higher education.
Focus Areas
Curriculum development, sustainability education, sustainability, equity, sustainability theory, utopian thought, gender history, labor history, pedagogy, general education, electronic portfolios, active learning, artificial intelligence