Chara Haeussler Bohan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Baylor University. She earned a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, a master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a bachelor's degree from Cornell University. Her research on Lucy Maynard Salmon earned the Kappa Delta Pi Educational Foundation Distinguished Dissertation Award. She taught at Horace Mann School and William B. Travis High School. Reports of her research have been published in "Theory and Research in Social Education, Journal of Curriculum and Supervision,