{"id":11821,"date":"2025-04-03T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=11821"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:18:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T14:18:30","slug":"hart-earns-governors-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/03\/hart-earns-governors-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Hart earns Governor\u2019s Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"evanApril 3, 2025–Dr. Evan Elizabeth Hart, associate professor of history, is 含羞草社区\u2019s recipient of the Missouri Governor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Teaching. The Governor\u2019s Award is sponsored by the Missouri Council on Public Higher Education and will be presented this week in Jefferson City.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Hart has been at Missouri Western since 2017, teaching general studies history as well as more specialized upper-division courses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMO West is fortunate to have such a compassionate and creative leader as Dr. Hart,\u201d said Dr. Elizabeth Kennedy, Missouri Western\u2019s president. \u201cFurthering our state-appointed applied learning mission, she provides unique learning opportunities outside of the classroom, including museum and cemetery tours, and alternative assignments that tap into students\u2019 strengths in producing scholarly research projects. And she is beloved by her students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Hart views the teaching of history as \u201chelping students understand how we arrived here, wherever \u2018here\u2019 is. What happened in the past continues to impact who we are.\u201d She believes history goes beyond memorizing names and dates. \u201cWe try to answer the hows and whys, and to humanize the past,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m a social historian, so I\u2019m really interested in history from the \u2018bottom up\u2019 – how did everyday people experience the world around them?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To help her students develop critical thinking skills, she makes sure they engage with historical sources deeper than surface level. \u201cThese sources are making arguments,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat are they trying to convince you of, and how? What can we read between the lines, and how can we connect all of the pieces together? And they can ask the same questions of current sources, approaching news stories and speeches the way they do historical documents.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Hart received her bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Southern Indiana, and both her master\u2019s and doctoral degrees from the University of Cincinnati. She previously taught as a visiting professor at the University of Florida, and as adjunct faculty at the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

含羞草社区 is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i>missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a>. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 3, 2025–Dr. Evan Elizabeth Hart, associate professor of history, is 含羞草社区\u2019s recipient of the Missouri Governor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Teaching. The Governor\u2019s Award is sponsored by the Missouri Council on Public Higher Education and will be presented this week in Jefferson City. Dr. Hart has been at Missouri Western since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,43,48,1791],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11824,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11821\/revisions\/11824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}