David Timothy Bates

David T. Bates is currently a Ph.D. student in the History of Education program at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. His research focuses on changing conceptions of disability, race, and the human sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries. Previously, he was the curriculum design research coordinator at Harvard's Democratic Knowledge Project (DKP), where he coordinated several curricular activities in service of the DKP's research on civic education. He has also taught in elementary schools in Tusla and Boston, and he has degrees from the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.