Dan Osborn

Dan Osborn, Ed.D. is the author of Levantine Vignettes: An Educator’s Account of Border Crossing in the Middle East and the Executive Director of Project Mosaics. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Jordan and has spent the last two decades traveling throughout the Middle East. He has dedicated his academic and professional life to teaching Middle Eastern and Jewish histories and advancing a vision of history education that is multicultural and globally-oriented. A recipient of a master’s degree in Near East and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University and a doctorate in education from Boston University Dan researches the representation of the Middle East in textbooks and teacher discourse, having published Dismantling Orientalist Representations in US Education and Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education. As a nonprofit professional, Dan has written history curriculum and designed professional learning experiences for history teachers at Facing History and Ourselves and Primary Source. He teaches history and education courses at Lasell University and Boston University.