Rate My Professor Debra Donnelly

Donnelly's research centers on history education, the impact of film and media on historical consciousness, multimodality in film-based learning, virtual simulations like TeachLive and TeachReady for pre-service teacher support, global education, citizenship, and museums as educative resources. She is a founding member of the HERMES research network on historical experience, representation, memory, education, and society, and associate editor of the Q1-ranked journal Historical Encounters. Her work has garnered 564 citations according to Google Scholar. Awards include the 2016 FEDUA Early Career Fellowship ($15,000), 2008 Equity Research Fellowship for Teaching Relief ($22,239) and Research Grant ($4,520), and 2007 New Staff Grant ($1,500). Key publications feature books such as Meaning Making With Picture Books (2025, with H. Sharp), Authentic Contexts of Numeracy: Making Meaning across the Curriculum (2018), and Contesting and Constructing International Perspectives in Global Education (2015); chapters like 'Using a Mixed-Reality Micro-teaching Program to Support “at Risk” Pre-service Teachers' (2023) and 'Integrating filmic pedagogies into the teaching and learning cycle' (2019); and articles including 'The History Teacher as Public Historian' (2023).