Ronald V. Morris

Ronald V. Morris is a Professor in the Department of History at Ball State University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate students. He earned a Ph.D. from Purdue University in Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction, a Master of Science from Purdue University in Educational Psychology and Gifted Education, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Indianapolis in Elementary and Middle School Education. He taught fourth grade social studies for eight years and has taught elementary social studies in Purdue’s Gifted Education Resource Institute for fifteen years. He is the co-author of 50 Social Studies Strategies for k-8 Classrooms and the author of Bringing History to Life: First Person Presentations in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies and Drama in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies. In 1991 he won the National Council for the Social Studies Christa McAuliffe Award and in 2010 he was awarded the American Association of State and Local History Award of Merit for a life time of service to public history. He is presently restoring a 1830s row house when he is not hiking on the Appalachian Trail.