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Robert M. Shurmer
Instructor, Curriculum Development

Photo of Robert M. ShurmerDr. Robert M. Shurmer is involved in curriculum development with SPS and will serve as an on-site instructor during the program next summer.

Dr. Shurmer comes to SPS with a decade of teaching experience. He has taught courses on history, political philosophy, and modern nationalism at the University of Virginia and a world humanities course at Columbus State in Ohio. More recently, Dr. Shurmer has worked as a program instructor with the Close-Up Foundation here in DC, which brings high school students from across the country to Washington to experience and analyze the workings of the federal government. For the past two years, Dr. Shurmer has been teaching history at St. Albans, and was recently awarded an outstanding teacher fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Dr. Shurmer received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame; has an M.Litt. From the University of Aberdeen in Scotland where he also studied at the NATO Center of Defense Studies; and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Shurmer has also studied at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and served as a post-graduate research fellow to St. Andrews University, Scotland. He has written and published historical monographs and book reviews, and is currently conducting research for a work on the U.S. Civil War.

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