Maia Sheppard is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education. Her research focuses on teaching difficult histories in secondary schools and social studies teacher education. Drawing on sociocultural theory, she examines the significance of identity, emotion, and place in social studies curriculum and teaching. She recently co-edited the book, Teaching Difficult Histories in Difficult Times: Pictures of Practice, and her work has been published in Teaching and Teacher Education, Theory and Research in Social Education, the Journal of Museum Education, and the Journal of Social Studies Research, among others.