Nate Sleeter

Research Assistant Professor

U.S. History: Gifted children, cultural history, teaching and learning, digital

Nate is an Associate Director at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media where he oversees projects related to K-16 education that emphasize teaching history as a active thinking skill, most notably World History Commons. He's also taught two online courses for K-12 teachers, Hidden in Plain Sight and Virginia Studies. These courses follow an inquiry-based approach to learning about history and also explore how historians analyze evidence. Nate has also taught a graduate course, Teaching Hidden History, where history and education students create their own online history modules. He is also affiliate faculty with the Higher Education Program where he has taught the History of Higher Education in the United States, Higher Education in the Digital Age, and Higher Education in Film. Nate earned his PhD in history at Mason in 2017. His dissertation focused on the cultural history of gifted children in the United States.