Prof. Wineburg is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of History at Stanford University. His work stands at the interdisciplinary crossroads of education, cognitive science, and history.  He studied religion and history at Brown and Berkeley, writing an honors thesis on Sefer Hasidim with Danny Matt in 1982.  He went on to teach in public and Jewish schools, and in 1989 completed a doctorate in Psychological Studies in Education at Stanford. He spent the next twelve years at the University of Washington, where he was Professor, Cognitive Studies in Education, and Adjunct Professor, Department of History.  For his sabbatical in 1997-98 he spent the year in Metulla (Israel), while serving as Visiting Professor at the University of Haifa.

His book, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past won the 2001 Frederic W. Ness Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities for work that makes the most important contribution to the “improvement of Liberal Education and understanding the Liberal Arts.”