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Education Professor Dr. George B. Lipscomb has been teaching at Furman since 2002. A former middle and high school social studies teacher, he currently instructs History of Education in America and Geography, among other courses. He is active in social studies education at the state, and national levels and has published in a variety of journals in the field. Dr. Lipscomb has done work in New Zealand schools and has taken students to the country multiple times for May Experience programs.
Honors & Awards
- National Council for Geographic Education- Higher Education Distinguished Teaching Award
- South Carolina Council for the Social Studies- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Member- Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society
Education
- Ph.D., University of Florida
- M.A., Wake Forest University
- B.A., Davidson College
Publications
- Kelly, K., Becker, W., Lipscomb, G., & Robards, A. (2020). Centering Culture Through Writing and the Arts: Lessons Learned in New Zealand. The Reading Teacher, 00(00), 1– 12. https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.1918
- Lipscomb, G. (2017). Lady Liberty. In Notable Books, Notable Lessons: Putting Social Studies in the K-8 Curriculum. Edited by Andrea Libresco, Jeannette Balantic, and Mary Battenfeld.
- Heafner, T. L.,Lipscomb, G.B., and P. Fitchett. (2014). Instructional practices of elementary social studies teachers in North and South Carolina. The Journal of social studies research http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jssr.2013.12.002.
- Lipscomb, G.B. and Doppen, F. (2013). Finding One’s Place in the World: Current Events in the K-12 Social Studies Classroom. In Jeff Passe & Paul G. Fitchett (Eds.) Research on the status of social studies: Views from the field. Charlotte, NC: Information Age.
- Lipscomb, G.B. (2013). How small colleges and universities prepare future teachers for the multicultural classroom. Theory and Research in Social Education 41, 179-182.
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