Christopher Berg is a scholar of history education and curriculum whose work examines how educators develop rigorous disciplinary thinking and professional judgment. His research sits at the intersection of historical thinking, disciplinary knowledge, and the intellectual formation of educators, attending closely to how individuals interpret evidence, construct meaning, and reason within complex educational contexts. This line of inquiry extends from questions about why students study history to deeper examinations of how historians and educators exercise interpretive, evidentiary, and ethical judgment in practice.
Berg’s scholarship appears in History Education Research Journal, Historical Encounters, World History Connected, and Curriculum History. He is co-editor, with Theodore Christou, of The Palgrave Handbook of History and Social Studies Education (2020), which brings together international perspectives on the theory and practice of history education. His current research extends this agenda into digital and AI-mediated environments, examining how emerging technologies reshape the conditions under which historical reasoning and professional judgment are formed and enacted. Across this body of work, he returns to an enduring question: how does education prepare individuals for thoughtful participation in civic and professional life?
Berg brings more than fifteen years of experience teaching and mentoring students across undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs in history, curriculum, and research methods. His teaching draws on place-based, material culture, and narrative-driven approaches that connect students’ lived experience to historical and humanistic inquiry, with sustained attention to inclusive and decolonized approaches to curriculum design. He currently serves as Full Professor and Program Lead of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, where he leads curriculum development, interdisciplinary program design, and faculty mentorship. He holds a Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in curriculum and teaching and an M.A. in History, awarded summa cum laude.
Course Credentialing
EN1110 – Composition I, EN1111 – Composition II, HU1110 – Humanities I: World Thought I, HU1111 – Humanities II: World Thought II, HU2212 – Modern + Contemporary World History, SBS1130 – Introduction to Political Science
