Ronald W. Evans

Ron Evans is a leading authority on social studies and curriculum history. His book "The Social Studies Wars" was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2004 by Choice Magazine. His biography of controversial progressive educator Harold O. Rugg, "This Happened in America," won the 2008 Exemplary Research Award from the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). His book "The Hope for American School Reform," on the origins and development of the new social studies of the 1960s, also won the Exemplary Research Award from NCSS (2011). In 2015, he received the Jean Dresden Grambs Distinguished Career Research Award from NCSS. He founded the Issues Centered Education Community of NCSS in 1988. Currently, he is a professor in the School of Teacher Education at San Diego State University. He lives in the San Diego area with his wife, two children, a cat and a dog.