Alan was the Co-Principal Investigator for a European Union grant supporting how Spanish and American history textbooks represented political violence. He has written numerous articles and conference papers pertaining to issues of collective violence and peace formation. He received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from Duke University and graduate degrees in African Studies from the University of Edinburgh and Curriculum Development from Antioch University. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Bollinger Prize from the University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMB). Most recently he was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and former Educational Project Director at the Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences at UMB. Tatyana, PhD, is a former Adjunct Professor at Seattle Pacific University and Professor Emerita at Kursk State University (Russia), Vice-Provost Emerita, Regional Open Social Institute (Russia), a visiting professor at the Summer Institute on Child Advocacy in Action at UBC (Canada), and an international education consultant. An author and editor of over 20 books and multiple papers in theory and history of education, she has been recently involved and published in critical comparative analysis of history teaching in modern Russia. Residing now in the United States and having both Russian and Ukrainian roots, she has been devoted to children’s rights. During the COVID-19 pandemic Tatyana initiated and conducted successful international multimedia projects for children.
