Dr Douglas L Adams

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Contact Info

608.342.1736
140f Doudna Hall
1 University Plz
Platteville, WI 53818-3099

Department Info

Assistant Professor
0140F Doudna Hall
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
0140F Doudna Hall
Assistant Professor
0140F Doudna Hall

Biography

Educational Background

  • PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Geography)
  • MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Educational Policy Studies)
  • MA, Northern Illinois University (History)
  • MEd, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Secondary Education)
  • BA, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (History)

About

Fall 2025 Courses 

  • TCHG 2240: Foundations of Education
  • TCHG 3190: Community Based Learning
  • TCHG 4190: Elementary/Middle Social Studies

Publications

  • Boyd, B., Boyd, R., Dahl, B., Erickson, R., Williams, C., & Adams, D. (2025). Living Act 31: Perspectives From Bayfield, Wisconsin. The Rural Educator, 46(1), 10-21. https://doi.org/10.55533/2643-9662.1487
  • Adams, D. (2023). Review of Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism, by Jarrod Hore. Historical Geography, 51(1), 84-86. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hgo.2023.a963918.
  • Sappleton, S. J., & Adams, D. (2022). On Decolonizing US Education: Lessons from the Caribbean and South Africa. The Professional Educator, 45(1), 47–57. https://doi.org/10.47038/tpe.45.01.11

Awards

Service to the College of Liberal Arts and Education Award, 2025