In episode 221, Dan and Michael chat with Sandra Schmidt about her new TRSE article titled, “Embracing queer: Possibilities for gender and sexuality expansiveness in history education.”

Transcript 

Books, Articles and Other Amazing Resources

1. Schmidt, S. J. (2025). Embracing queer: Possibilities for gender and sexuality expansiveness in history education. Theory & Research in Social Education, 53(2), 185-211.
2. Schmidt, S. J. (2010). Queering social studies: The role of social studies in normalizing citizens and sexuality in the common good. Theory & Research in Social Education, 38(3), 314-335.
3. Episode 83: LGBTQ Topics in Education with J.B. Mayo, Jr
4. Episode 39: Supporting Transgender Students w/ Amber Briggle & Genevieve Ma’yet
5. Bayard Rustin
6. Roger Casement 
7. Jose Muñoz (book: Muñoz, J. E. (2019). Cruising utopia: The then and there of queer futurity. New York University Press.)
8. Parker lesson  NOTE: I misnamed this person and not sure anything can be done since I used his name wrong numerous times.  Should be Charley Parkhurst.  Link to a lesson: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kpgf4eH6zAcJ4FoIymFdSURHrl5anH4m/view
9. History Unerased 
10. California lessons (One Institute using materials from One Archive): https://www.oneinstitute.org/lgbtq-lesson-plans/
11. New Jersey lessons: https://makeitbetter4youth.org/nj-lgbtq-inclusive-curriculum/
12. Heyam, K. (2022). Before We Were Trans. A New History of Gender. Seal Press.

Biography
Dr. Sandra Schmidt is an Associate Professor of Social Studies Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.  She uses spatial theory and queer and feminist theories to study how young people’s identities are formed through/in/with spatial navigations, specifically gender and sexuality diverse and expansive youth and African migrant youth.  She uses visual methods to open space for counternarrativization.  Her research has been published in TC Record, Theory and Research in Social Education, and Journal of Curriculum Studies. She teaches courses such as Queer Theories in Education, Teaching Economics as if People Mattered, Critical Geography Education, and Thinking with Theory.  She taught secondary social studies in Michigan, Oregon, and Malawi.