Professor wins national history teaching award

stratton-80WASHINGTON – Clif Stratton, clinical assistant professor at Washington State University, has won a teaching award from the American Historical Association, the largest organization of historians in the United States.

Stratton is assistant director of the Roots of Contemporary Issues program at WSU, a foundational first-year student core requirement that teaches the learning goals of: diversity, critical and creative thinking, information literacy, communication, and depth, breadth and integration of learning.

“The course promises to apply historical inquiry to contemporary issues of equity, race, class, justice and global conflict,” said Roland Spickermann, award committee chair. “Stratton has successfully engaged students in his classes using inquiry-based frameworks and has made these techniques scalable and applicable. By offering context to these issues to thousands of students, he has a deep impact.”

The Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award is awarded annually in recognition of outstanding teaching and advocacy for history teaching at colleges and universities. Learn more at http://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/awards-and-prizes/eugene-asher-award.