Brian Dotts
Educational Theory and Practice (Faculty)
Clinical Assistant Professor
Undergraduate Program Coordinator for Social Foundations of Education
614C Aderhold Hall
Phone: 706.543.0360
Email: bdotts@uga.edu
Lecturer
Brian W. Dotts is a Clinical Assistant Professor and an undergraduate Program Coordinator in Social Foundations of Education. His research explores the history of American education, specifically during the American Revolution, the early republic and the antebellum eras. He also specializes in the philosophy of education, specifically social and political philosophy and critical theory. He teaches Critical and “Contemporary Issues in Education,” “Exploring Socio-Cultural Perspectives in Education,” “History of Education in the United States,” and “Social and Political Philosophies of Education.” He is a faculty member in the Graduate School and the Honors Program.
Recent representative publications include:
Dotts, Brian W. (in press) “‘Making Rome Appear More Roman’: Common Schooling and the Whig Response to Jacksonianism.” Journal of Philosophy and History of Education.
Dotts, Brian W. (2012) The Political Education of Democratus: Negotiating Civic Virtue during the Early Republic. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Dotts, Brian W. (2010). “The Democratic-Republican Societies: An Educational Dream Deferred.” Educational Horizons 88 no. 3, 179-192.
Dotts, Brian W. (2006). “Cato’s Resolve and the Revolutionary Spirit: Political Education, Civic Action, and the Democratic-Republican Societies of the 1790s.” In Donald Warren and John Patrick (Eds.), Moral and Civic Learning in the United States (pp. 33-50). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.