Sr. Susan Douglas (douglas@mymcs.org) (World History & Geography I)
Sr. Susan has an M.A. in Arab Studies (History concentration) from Georgetown University and a B.A. in History from the University of Rochester. Since 1994 she has served as Affiliated Scholar and researcher with the Council on Islamic Education, working on textbooks, curriculum and standards, teacher workshops and resources. Major publications include Strategies and Structures for Presenting World History (1994), Beyond A Thousand and One Nights: Literature from Muslim Civilization (1999), a teaching resource collection The Emergence of Renaissance: Cultural Interactions between Europeans and Muslims (co-author with Karima Alavi,1999), and a teaching unit published by the National Center for History in the Schools. She is editor and contributor for the reference volume World Eras: Rise and Spread of Islam, 622-1500 (Thompson/Gale, 2002). She researched and wrote the study Teaching About Religion in National and State Social Studies Standards (2000), co-published by the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, and is currently working on a study of world history and geography standards in the fifty states. She conducts workshops for private and public schools and university outreach programs, and has published instructional resources in social studies, including the children’s book Ramadan (Carolrhoda Books, 2004), and the Internet-based curriculum project World History for Us All supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and San Diego State University. She has served as Academic Coordinator and teacher at El-Iman Learning Center from 2002-2005, and consults on curriculum development with several Muslim schools. She served on the Executive Council of the World History Association from 2001-2004; she is currently serving on the Board of the Islamic Schools League of America and on Islamic Horizons Editorial Board, as well as the Advisory Board of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam. She is currently working as Senior Research Officer for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations initiative.
