Contributors

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Liz Evans

Liz Evans has over two decades of experience in civic education and has taught most of the social sciences in a public school setting, including middle and high school.  She has a BS. Ed, Elementary, and an M. ED in secondary History from Northern Arizona University. She is currently a doctoral student studying Educational Leadership. She is a Nationally Board Certified Teacher in Social Studies/History. 


Liz was a finalist for the 2014 Arizona Teacher of the Year and a 2020 Teacher Spotlight for the Arizona K12 Center. She has worked with the Bill of Rights Institute and is now a Civic Education Program Director at Arizona State University. 


Guests

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Dr. Sean Beienburg

Sean Beienburg, a Phoenix native, earned his bachelor's in politics and history at Pomona College and his doctorate in politics at Princeton University. Before joining ASU, he taught at Haverford College and Lehigh University.


His teaching and research focus on the U.S. and Arizona constitutions, federalism, executive power, American political development, and Prohibition. He authored Prohibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights (2019) and Progressive States' Rights: The Forgotten History of Federalism (2024).


Beienburg serves as Associate Director of SCETL, Director of the Center for American Civics, and leads the Arizona Constitution Project. He has also explored political themes in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy and the Daniel Craig-era James Bond films.




https://search.asu.edu/profile/3326978

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