Anna Yonas
- Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Teaching
- Secondary History & Government Program Coordinator
Contact Info
1122 W. Campus Rd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-3101
Biography —
Anna M. Yonas, assistant professor of secondary social studies, received her PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include strategies to support novice social studies teachers implement best practices of historical source analysis as well as the curricula relating to traumatic and difficult histories. Before joining KU, Yonas was a classroom teacher and administrator for ten years.
Education —
Research —
Research Interests
- Traumatic and difficult histories
- Social studies education
- Instructional coaching
- Practice-based teacher education
Teaching —
C&T 335: Curriculum and Instruction in the Social Studies Classroom
C&T 420: Teaching Kansas Government and Contemporary Public Policy Issues
C&T 541: Advanced Practices in Teaching Social Studies in Middle/Secondary Schools.
Selected Publications —
Yonas, A., & van Hover, S. (2024). Misleading mandates: The null curriculum of genocide education. The Journal of Social Studies Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/23522798241238463
Yonas, A. (2024). “Only memories:” Place-based Holocaust education in contemporary Poland. Social Studies Research and Practice, 19(2), 191-208. https://doi.org/10.1108/SSRP-10-2023-0057
Selected Presentations —
Yonas, A. (2024). Coaching Teachers for Historical Source Analysis of Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative. Paper accepted to the annual meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies.
Yonas, A. & Fitzpatrick, C. (2024). Expanding, Shrinking, and Standardizing Religions: A Content Analysis of State History Standards. Paper accepted to the annual meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies.
Yonas, A. (2024). “Someone else’s history:” Preservice teachers addressing and avoiding antisemitism when teaching a Holocaust survivor’s testimony. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Yonas, A., & van Hover, S. (2023). “A deterrent to the religious beliefs of many of our families”: Religious resistance to a social studies curriculum. Paper presented at annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.