Education
University of Georgia, Athens, GA. May 2016
Current employment
Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education
Kennesaw State University
Tenure Awarded Spring 2021
Scholarship
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Adams, E. C. (forthcoming). Does a queen belong in a democracy? Departures and possibilities in civics and economics education. Journal of Social Studies Research
Varga, B. & Adams, E.C. (forthcoming). D032 N07 C0MpU73: Exploring (Post)Human Bodies and Worlds with/in Droidial(ity) and Narrative Contexts. Journal of Childhood Studies
Adams, E. C. (2021). Making sense of space: Mapping and materializing panoptic features in research with youth and teachers. Journal of Curriculum Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2021.1957156
Adams, E. C. (2021). Modern Monetary Theory for social studies educators- A new perspective on an old System. Teaching Social Studies, 21(2), 71-81. https://njcss.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/13026706/teaching_social_studies_summer-fall_2021__vol._21_no._2__v3.pdf
Adams, E. C., Wurzburg, E., Kerr, S. (2021). The tip of the iceberg: Immaterial labor, technoskepticism and the teaching profession. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 21(1), 126-154. https://citejournal.org/volume-21/issue-1-21/social-studies/the-tip-of-the-iceberg-immaterial-labor-technoskepticism-and-the-teaching-profession/
Adams, E. C. & Kerr, S. (2021). Always already there: Social studies as intra-disciplinary. Pedagogies. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2020.1870470
Adams, E. C. (2021). Economics is what economists do: Rhetorical analysis as economic literacy. Social Education, 85(4), 216-222.
Adams, E. C. (2021). Being before: Three Deleuzian becomings in teacher education. Professional Development in Education, 47(2-3),392-405. https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2021.1891954
Adams, E. C., Kerr, S., Wurzburg, E. (2020). The Final Cut?: Making Three Minute Theory’s What are Societies of Control?. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, 11(2), 58-79. https://journals.oslomet.no/index.php/rerm/article/view/4117
Adams, E. C., & An, S. (2020) Thinking with theory in a civil rights center. Social Studies Research and Practice. 15(2), 167-182.https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/SSRP-01-2020-0001/full/html
Adams, E. C. (2020).Whose [economic] knowledge is it, anyway? Critical Education, 11(12),https://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/criticaled/article/view/186542
Adams, E. C. (2019). Where have all the people gone? Social Studies Education Review, 8(1), 1-29.https://coe.uga.edu/academics/concentrations/social-studies-education
Adams, E. C. (2019). Economics and the civic mission of social studies education: 2 Critiques of neoclassicism. Citizenship, Social and Economic Education, 18(1) 16–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047173419841915
Adams, E. C. (2019). Twenty years of economics curriculum: Trends, issues and transformations? The Social Studies, 110(3), 131-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/00377996.2019.1581725
Kerr, S. & Adams, E. (2017). What do you see? Visual(izing) social studies for all students. Oregon Social Studies Journal, 5(1), 30-41. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5N0kEdFQZ-sOC1vdGJyVlBtNDg/view?resourcekey=0-fPpuLwBHrJtLMEgjkGemYA
Adams, E. C., (2015). Finding Civics in the Grocery Store: A Community-Based Field Trip to Foster Critical Awareness and Agency. Social Studies and the Young Learner. March/April 2015.
Contributions to edited volumes:
Adams, E., Ford, J., An, S., and Rodriguez, S. (2021). “White teachers, Brown yoga: Teacher candidates learning yoga” in Gelber, C.H. (Ed.) Practicing Yoga as Resistance: Voices of Color in Search of Freedom. Routledge.
Adams, E. C. (2020). Grammar Matters. In Hawkman, A. and Shear, S. (Eds.) Articulating Whiteness in Social Studies Information Age Publishing
Adams, E. C. (2018). “Family” in Helmsing, M., Whitlock, A. & Krutka, D. (Eds.) Keywords in the Social Studies: Concepts and Conversations (pp.169-180). New York: Peter Lang
Adams, E. C. (2017). “An Hour in our town” in Grant, S.G. & Swan, K. Teaching Social Studies: A Methods Book for Methods Teachers (pp. 209-214). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing
Adams, E. C. (2017). The Possibilities of A Lesson Before Dying as a Social Studies Teacher Education Text: A Teacher Educator’s Thoughts. In R.A. Bedenbaugh (Ed.) Toward Justice: Reflections on A Lesson Before Dying (pp. 59-61). Knoxville, TN: Newfound Press eBooks. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_newfound-ebooks/16/
Mathews, S. & Adams, E. C. (2015). “Examining community in teacher education through participatory photography projects” in Crowe, A. & Cuenca, A. Rethinking Social Studies Teacher Education for 21st Century Citizenship (pp. 295-319). New York: Springer
Scholarly Book Reviews
Adams, E. C. (2019). Economics is for everyone (Book Review). Theory and Research in Social Education, 47(3), 465-470.
Adams, E.C., Fordham, M., Maiden, M., Sandberg, R., Webb, E. (2018). Troublemaking is a Verb. Book Review of Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School. Journal of Social Studies Research, 42(4), 411-415.
Adams, E. C., (2016). Childhood is a social study: A Book Review of Social Studies and Young Children. Journal of Social Studies Research, 40 (4), 339-342.
Accepted and Under Review
Adams, E. (accepted). Does she even go here? Economics and its place in social studies education. In E. W. Ross (Ed.) The Social Studies Curriculum: Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities, 5th Ed.
Varga, B., & Adams, E. (under review) Metallurgic matter(ing)s: Mirrored Mandalorian metal-scapes, mining(s), and mimesis. Journal of Posthumanism
Adams, E. & Varga, B. (under review). Min(e)d your metals: Inquiries into the environmental impact of extraction.The Geography Teacher
Adams, E. (under review). Big rigged(?): Does deregulation deliver? Middle Level Learner (revised and resubmitted)
Adams, E, Alviar-Martin, T., An, S, Guerra, P., Sutton-Brown, C. (under review). Heroic Losers. In T. Monreal & J. Tirado (Eds). Hollywood or History: An Inquiry-based strategy to learn about Latinx Communities and History in the Classroom
Perez, M. & Adams, E. (under review). Chicano! In T. Monreal & J. Tirado (Eds). Hollywood or History: An Inquiry-based strategy to learn about Latinx Communities and History in the Classroom
Adams, E (In progress). STEM, human capital and the future of work. In A. Whitlock (Ed.). Hollywood or History? Teaching The Simpsons.
Adams, E. (in progress). “Incapable, uninterested and ineffective”: Locating villainification narratives in financial education.In C. van Kessel & K. Edmondton (Eds). Inquiries into Villainification in Social Studies Education
Varga, B. & Adams, E. (in progress). Are you telling me that’s a Loki?”: Mimetic materialities, variants, and villainy. In C. van Kessel & K. Edmondton (Eds). Inquiries into Villainification in Social Studies Education
Other Creative Activities
Video Series: Three-Minute Theory (with Dr. Stacey Kerr and Dr. Elizabeth Wurzburg)
Episode 1: The Rhizome
Episode 2: Intra-Action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0SnstJoEec
Episode 3: Neoliberalism
Episode 4: Societies of Control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onZ1U4jKJdk
Episode 5: Immaterial labor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLo_9WkpS9g&t=11s
Conference Presentations (selected)
Adams, E (2022). Austerity is the Price of Patriotism: Infantile Citizenship, the State and Democratic Education. Paper accepted for roundtable presentation at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA.
Adams, E (2022). Accounting for space in social studies research and practice. Paper accepted for symposium presentation at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA.
Varga, B. & Adams, E. (2022). Metallurgic matter(ing)s: Mirrored Mandalorian metal-scapes, mining(s), and mimesis. Paper accepted for presentation at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA.
Adams, E. (2021). Critical economics for elementary educators: From theory to practice. Research-into-practice session presented at the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social studies Annual Conference (Virtual).
Adams, E. (2021). Equality under the market? Economics’ place in social studies education. Paper presented at the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social studies Annual Conference (Virtual). https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-dggaPaC1A3A5CMhiXmzjH7RgdEsD3HFe70WV1z6di0/edit
Wood, J. & Adams, E. (2021). Children’s Literature and the Holocaust-the How, the Why, the When. Presentation for the Georgia Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference (virtual).
Varga, B. & Adams, E. (2021). Vibrant encounters: Tracing metallurgic un/limitations and animations in science Fiction(al) universes. Posthuman Mimesis Conference, Belgium (virtual participant) http://www.homomimeticus.eu/events-2/
Adams, E. (2020). Awesome architects, copyrights and containment: Social studies teachers make sense of youths’ maps. Paper presented at the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference (virtual).
Adams, E. (2020). (Un)Accounted for?: Picture books, money and financial literacy. Paper presented at the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference (virtual).
Adams, E. & Garrett, H.J. (2020). What are we doing in DC? Infantile citizenship and social studies education. Paper accepted for presentation at the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference (virtual)
Adams, E. (2019). Symposium: Challenging White Supremacy in Social Studies: Group 4: Exposing whiteness in teacher education. Paper presented at the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, Austin, TX
Adams, E. (2019). A Place to Think in and People to Think With: Theory, Museums and Teacher Education Paper presented at the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, Austin, TX.
Adams, E., An, S. & Ritchie, S. (2019). Working the borders and interrogating belongingness in children’s literature and texts. Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education Annual Conference. Las Cruces, NM
Adams, E., Kerr, S. & Wurzburg, E. (2019). Producing Thought: Making Three Minute Theory’s What are Societies of Control?. American Educational Research Association annual conference Toronto, ON
Adams, E. (2019). Official knowledge, power, and K-12 economics education: A critical meta-discourse analysis. American Educational Research Association annual conference, Toronto, ON
Adams, E. (2018). (Refusing) Work: Teaching about Immaterial Labor in the Intangible Economy. Paper presented at the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, Chicago, IL.
Adams, E., Shanks, N., Crowley, R., Swan, K. (2017). Neoclassicism: Now What? Economics in the Aftermath. Symposium conducted at the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, San Francisco, CA.
Adams, E. (2017). What’s Capitalism got to do with it? Paper presented at the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, San Francisco, CA.
Adams, E. (2017). Talking about panopticons in teacher education. Paper presented to the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX.
Adams, E. (2016). Moving beyond neoclassicism: Finding machianic subjectivity in a DeleuzoGuattarian read of K-12 economics curriculum. Paper presented at the Bergamo Conference for Curriculum Theorizing, Dayton, OH.
Adams, E. (2016). Check-cashing, buying socks, and work-study; Preservice social studies teachers talk about socioeconomics in social studies teacher education. Paper presented at the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference, Washington, D.C.
Adams, E. (2016). Maps of schools and markets: Youth drawing their worlds Paper presented to the American Educational Research Association annual conference. Washington, D.C.
Adams (2015). Mapping Markets. Paper presented at the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference, New Orleans, LA.
Adams, E. (2015). A Curriculum of desire. Paper presented at the Bergamo Conference for Curriculum Theorizing, Dayton, OH.
Adams, E. & Kerr, S. Pittard, E. (2015). Three Minute Theory: Theory/practice that matters. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
Adams, E. (2015). Desiring Deleuzian Desire. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
Adams, E. (2015). Reading spaces, writing maps: Mapping as a literacy practice. Presented at the Winter Conference of the Journal of Language and Literacy Education (JOLLE), Athens, GA.
Invited Talks, Presentations and Professional Development
Civics, Community Engagement and Social Studies Education in the United States. Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (FTEA). October 6, 2021. California State University, Chico.
Social Studies, Community Engagement and Service Learning in the United States. Study of the U.S. Institute for Secondary Educators (SUSI), June 16, 2021 California State University, Chico.
Being before: Three Deleuzian becomings in teacher education. Nonlinear perspectives on teacher development conversation. June 23, 2021 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B5hFnUWXeHPvrKtTa8F586ZXHq1baKNtKWJTvhdimJw/edit?usp=sharing
(re)Considering the Settler self in social studies teacher education. Presented to the Kennesaw State University as part of the “Indigenizing and Decolonizing Classrooms and Curriculum: A Journey in Research and Practice” panel. November 13, 2020.
Teaching Economics in Elementary and Early Childhood. Critical Elementary Social Studies Teachers (CRESST) Group, January 8, 2020
Reflections from the Global Issues Workshop on Sustainability at the European Academy of Otzenhausen in Germany. Invited Speaker at the International Teaching & Research: A Global Engagement Committee and Research Consortium Committee Collaboration as part of Kennesaw State University’s Write Day. Kennesaw, GA: Kennesaw State University. With David Glassmeyer. February 2018
European Academy of Otzenhausen (EAO) GERMANY 2017: Faculty Reflections and Perspectives. Equinox Week. Kennesaw State University, Marietta Campus. With Akins, E., Carroll, M., Smith, D., Toson, S., Kalamas, M. March 20, 2018.
What is classroom management? Guest Instructor, Marietta High School future educator’s course. February 27, 2019
Teddy Roosevelt and the National Park service: A more complete story. Workshop facilitator, Cobb County Schools Professional Learning Days. January 08, 2019.
Corp of Discovery? Teaching Lewis and Clark with counternarratives. Workshop facilitator, Cobb County Schools Professional Learning Days. January 08, 2019, January 05, 2020.
Photomissions in university classes: Increasing student engagement with mobile technology. Presentation to the Design Interface Conference hosted by the Department for Teaching and Learning at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Knoxville, TN, March 2016.
Service (selected)
KSU
2020-2022, Kennesaw State University Academic Standing Committee
2017-2019, Organizing Committee Member, Division of Global Affairs College Spotlight program. Year of India and Year of Morocco
2018, Year of Morocco Learning Module https://dga.kennesaw.edu/yearof/morocco/learningmodules.php
2016-2017, Grievance Panel, Office of the VP of Academic Affairs
Bagwell College of Education
2021-Present, Committee Member, Graduate Committee
2021-Present, Committee Member and Reviewer, BCOE Bias Panel
2017-2018 Member, BCOE Research Consortium
2018-2020 Organizing Committee member, KSU Conference on Literature for Children and Young Adults
2018-2021, Instructor, Educators of Tomorrow program
2017-2018, Teacher Leadership (TLED) program revision committee
Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education
2019-Present, Course Coordinator, ECE 4475
2019-Present, Course Coordinator, ECE 7707
2018-2019, Committee member, Department Faculty Council
2018-2019, Committee member, Academic Standing Committee
2018-2019, Committee member, M.Ed program revision committee
2018-2019, Course Developer, ECE 7707
Social Studies and Teacher Education Communities
Host #EngSSChat (01/28/2019). Topic: Art and Society in the ELA/SS classroom.
2019 Community partner/Judge. Project Soapbox Jr. (2/28/19) Campbell High School
Peer Reviewer for the following journals: Journal of Social Studies Education, Social Education, Theory and Research in Social Education, The Canadian Social Studies Journal, Social Studies Education Review, Teachers College Record, Critical Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing and Social Studies and the Young Learner
Peer Reviewer and session chair for the following conferences and organizations; National Council for the Social Studies, College and University Faculty Assembly, American Educational Research Association Division B and the Social Studies Special Interest Group
Awards/Recognition:
Bagwell College of Education 2020 Early Career Award
BCOE representative to the Perspectives on Global Issues Workshop-Sustainability in Otzenhausen, Germany (Spring 2017)
Multiple Literacies in Morocco (Jan. 2018)
Award: $9000
KSU Department of Global Affairs YoI College Spotlight Program
Global learning and mindfulness through the study of India (Feb. 2017)
Award: $5,000
KSU Department of Global Affairs YoI College Spotlight Program
Professional Affiliations and positions
Museum of History and Holocaust Education (MHHE) Kennesaw State University
Advisory Board Member, 2019-Present
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Social Studies Research Special Interest Group-Assistant Program Chair (2021-2022), Program Chair (2022- 2023), Chair (2023-2024).
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
College & University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies (CUFA)
Georgia Council for the Social Studies (GCSS)
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE)
Erin on Econ