Lisa Heuvel, Ed.D.

As a teacher, writer, and historian, I see leadership studies as a transformative pathway for self-reflection and growth as well as a lens for understanding our shared past and present. My passion is co-creating interactive learning communities with students in which we recognize and encourage each other’s potential to make the world a better place.

On the Atlantic University faculty since 2018, I have taught at the undergraduate, graduate, or lifelong learning levels at Christopher Newport University, the University of North Carolina, and William and Mary. Professionally, I have held educational, curatorial, and administrative positions at the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and currently work as an educational consultant.

Research Areas:

Curriculum and Instruction: Use of Interactive Strategies in Leadership Studies; Teacher Professional Development in History and Social Studies; Museum Operations and Education; Educational Technology

Publications:

Performance Pedagogy: A Teacher’s Guide to Historical Interpretation and Storytelling in the Classroom (2011, Emerald Press)

Interpreting Leadership: Eighteenth-Century Examples for Twenty-First Century Classrooms (2018, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation); The College of William and Mary in the Civil War (2013, McFarland), well over one hundred articles related to history, civics, and education.