Dr. Peter H. Gibbon
Position:		Senior Research Fellow
Department:		Administration, Training and Policy
Program:

Educational History

Contact Information
Phone:		781-934-1524
E-mail:		peterhgibbon@comcast.net

Profile

Dr. Gibbon is the author of the book A Call to Heroism: Renewing America’s Vision of Greatness, published by Atlantic Monthly Press. His articles have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Washington Post, and in a variety of professional journals, such as Teachers College Record and The History Teacher. Dr. Gibbon has traveled around the country talking to teachers and students in public and private schools about heroism. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs and was a speaker at the White House Forum on History, Civics and Service in 2003. The former Head of Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York, he has taught ancient and medieval history, European history, anthropology, American history and a variety of electives in American, English and European literature. He was for eight years a Research Associate at Harvard University’s School of Education as is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Boston University’s School of Education and works with the National Endowment for the Humanities on programs in American history. He has recently directed two NEH Summer Institutes at BU for teachers on George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and is currently the academic director for a Teaching American History program, “A More Perfect Union: The Origins and Development of the Constitution.” Dr. Peter Gibbon is a graduate of Harvard College and has a Ph.D. from Columbia University Teachers College. More information about Dr. Gibbon’s work can be found on his web site at http://www.heroesinamerica.org