The Board
The journal is edited by the board of the International Society for History Didactics (ISHD).
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Susanne Popp (President), Prof., Dr. phil., Didactics of History, University of Augsburg,
Germany. President of the International Society of History Didactics; Main research interests:
European and global perspectives in national history teaching and history museums (co-
ordinator of the EU-Culture-project ‘EMEE’; 2012-2016), visual literacy, popular history
magazines in Europe (co-ordinator of the EU-Comenius project ‘EHISTO’; 2012-2014),
international comparison of textbooks;
Markus Furrer (Vice-President), Dr.phil., Professor of History at the University of Teacher
Education of Lucerne and Private Docent at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Main
research interests: Swiss and European contemporary history with special focus on politics,
culture and social history as well as on remembrance
Elize van Eeden, PhD, Professor of History and Acting Deputy Director: School of Social
Sciences at the North-West University, South Africa. Main research interests: Regional
History, Ecohealth and wellbeing research in regions, History teaching practises
Katja Gorbahn, Dr. phil., assistant professor at the Department of Aesthetics and
Communication at Aarhus University/Denmark; Main research interests: textbook analysis,
memory studies, social identity constructions in history teaching, content and language
integrated learning
Harry Haue, PhD, professor emeritus of history didactics and educational history at the
Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark; Main research
interests related to history education: comparative studies of history didactics and its relation
to ‘Allgemeinbildung’
Terry Haydn, PhD, Professor of Education at the University of East Anglia, England;
curriculum tutor for history education and lead author of Learning to teach history in the
secondary school, a standard text for history student teachers in the UK. Main research
interests related to history education: the history curriculum, the use of new technology in
history teaching and in teacher education, and levels of behaviour in schools
Joanna Wojdon, PhD habil., associate professor at the Institute of History, University of
Wrocław, Poland; chair of the Department of Teaching History and Civic Education. Main
research interests: history of education under communism, new media in history education,
public history, history of the Polish Americans
Academic advisory board
Prof. Dr. Karl P. Benziger (Rhode Island College, Providence, USA); chairman of the
Academic Advisory Board
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Erdmannn (Merzhausen, Germany), Honorary President of the ISHD
Dr. Eleni Apostolidou (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Prof. Dr. Alexander S. Khodnev (Yaroslavl State University, Russia)
Prof. Dr. Takahiro Kondo (Waseda University, Japan)
Prof. Dr. David Lefrançois (Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada)
Prof. Dr. Zhongjie Meng (East China Normal University, China)
Prof. Dr. Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Prof. Dr. Robert J. Parkes (University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia)
Prof. Dr. Stanislaw Roszak (Nicolaus Copernicus University Toruń, Poland)
Dr. Dean Smart (University of the West of England Bristol, United Kingdom)
Prof. Dr. Arja Virta (University of Turku, Finland)
Dr. Pieter Warnich (North West University, South Africa)