Dr. Lanahan

Brian Lanahan

Associate Professor

Education

  • Doctor of Education, Curriculum and Instruction (2006); University of Florida - Dissertation on Elementary Social Studies Methods Instruction 
  • Masters of Elementary Education (2001); University of California at Santa Barbara - Masters thesis on English as a Second Language and Mathematics                                      
  • Bachelor's of Science, Spanish and Social Science (1997). Troy State University -Graduated with Honors in 2.5 years 

Research Interest

  • Comparative and International Education  
  • Post-Conflict Education 
  • Elementary and Early Childhood Social Studies Methods 
  • Teacher Education Methods 
  • Multicultural Education and Diversity Issues 
  • Member Comparative and International Education Society 

Courses Taught

  • EDFS 201/652 Foundations of Education  
  • EDEE 371 Teaching Social Studies and Humanities: Grades K-3 
  • EDEE 373 Teaching Social Studies and Humanities: Grades 2-8 
  • EDEE 642 Teaching Social Studies and Humanities Pre-K–6 
  • MTLS 601 Race, Class and Gender in Education 

Selected Publications

Lanahan, B. K (In Review) Croatian Teacher Education 2003-2023: From Independence to Bologna and Beyond. European Journal of Teacher Education.  
 
Lanahan, B. K. (2023). Higher Education as Politics in Post-Rose Revolution Georgia London: Palgrave Macmillan.  
 
Lanahan, B. K. (2017). Post-conflict education for democracy. Bosnian education in the post-war era 1995–2015. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 
 
Hickey, M. G., & Lanahan, B. K. (Eds)., (2012). 'Even the janitor is white': Educating for cultural diversity in small colleges and universities. New York: Peter Lang. 
 
Lanahan, B. K. (2020). International perspectives on education after the Rose Revolution-Georgian education 2003-2019. International Journal of Comparative Education and Development. 22 (3), pp. 185-199 
 
McDermott, P., & Lanahan, B. K. (2012). Democracy and social justice in Sarajevo's schools. The Qualitative Report, 17 (22), pp.1–27. 
 
Lanahan, B. K., & McDermott, P. (2012). Post-conflict education for democracy: The case of Sarajevo. International Journal of Social Education, 24(2). 
 
Lanahan, B. K., & Phillips, M. L. (2012). Perspectives on democracy education—The views of preservice teachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United States. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, pp. 1–22. 

Honors & Awards

  • TEDU Live Oak Award (October 2020)  
  • TEDU Grit Award (November 2019) 
  • Fulbright Scholar to Republic of Georgia, United States State Department, $24,000, (January 2019–May 2019). 
  • TEDU Stick Your Neck Out Award (September 2018)  
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center Research Scholar, $13,300 (January 2014–April 2014). 
  • Fulbright Scholar to Bosnian and Herzegovina, United States State Department, $44,000, (September 2008–May 2009). 
  • Alumni Fellowship, University of Florida, $18,000 Annually, (August 2003–-August-006). 
  • Inducted Horace Mann League (2006) 

Press & Media

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