andrea m. hawkman, ph.d.

"Don't let the fear of what is difficult paralyze you."

I teach and engage in research that considers how whiteness and queerness exist, resist, and persist in social studies classrooms and contexts. 

7/1/26: Began term as Chair of the Department of Content Area Teacher Education at Rowan University 

4/24/25: Recipient, Early Career Award, Social Studies Research SIG, American Educational Research Assocation

11/21/24: Began term as Chair of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies. 

5/10/2023: Grant Funding Alert! Co-Recipient of Teaching with Primary Sources grant for project "Teaching About LGBTQ+ Histories and Identities Through Primary Sources" from the Library of Congress. 

4/19/2023: Article in The Whit, featuring my involvement on a panel hosted by Rowan University's Journalism Department, "News Media Literacy in an Age of Disinformation"

9/1/2022: Started new position, Associate Professor of Social Studies Education at Rowan University

1/27/2022: New review of Marking the "Invisible" in Theory & Research in Social Education

10/13/2021: E-STITCH Project Honored by National Science Foundation for being an exemplary project in advancing equity through integrated elementary instruction. 

4/1/2021: Watch the recording of a March 2021 panel, "Culturally Responsive and Inclusive Teaching," hosted by the Center for Intersectional Gender Studies and Research at Utah State University: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/inter_inclusion/4

“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” -Lilla Watson