Name: Margaret Gillikin
Title: Associate Professor of Social Studies Education; Director of Social Studies Education;
Director of Community-Based Learning
Education: B.A., Secondary Education/French, Clemson University
M.A., History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Ph.D., History, University of South Carolina
Office: 358 Bancroft Hall
Phone: 803/323-3123
E-mail: gillikinm@winthrop.edu
Web:
Area(s): American South, Race and Slavery, Religion, Age of Revolution, Immigration, Social
Studies Teacher Education
Dr. Margaret Wilson Gillikin is an Associate Professor of Social Studies Education and holds a PhD in History from the University of South Carolina. She directs the social studies education program at Winthrop and teaches courses in social studies methods classes, US and world history, and museum studies and has supervised interns in the public schools for over ten years. She also serves as an Associate to the Dean and Director of Secondary Education.
She publishes on the application of inquiry in social studies classrooms and has produced grant-funded materials for teaching African American history at the K-12 level. She is actively involved with the National Council for the Social Studies and the South Carolina Council for the Social Studies and has served on committees and work groups for the South Carolina Department of Education.
Prior to coming to Winthrop, Dr. Gillikin taught social studies, French, and English/Language Arts at the middle and high school levels in North and South Carolina and US and World History at the community college and university levels in North Carolina and Ohio.