George D. Dalbo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Education & Youth Studies
- Pronouns: He / Him / His
- Email: dalbogd@beloit.edu
- Office: Room 217, Morse-Ingersoll Hall
Description / Biography
At Beloit College, I teach a mix of foundational, advanced topics, and methodology courses in Education and Youth Studies. I also supervise students in their practica and student teaching placements. As a former middle and secondary teacher, I believe in providing Beloit students with a strong foundation in education, especially theories of teaching and learning, so they are prepared to work with diverse classrooms of students. In my teaching, I try to model self-reflection, student-led inquiry, culturally responsive and sustaining praxes, and critical and anti-colonial pedagogies.
I completed my Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction - Social Studies Education with a graduate minor in Human Rights at the University of Minnesota. Before coming to Beloit College, for nearly 20 years, I taught middle and high school social studies in Minnesota and Wisconsin. I have taught every grade from 5th to 12th in public, charter, and private schools in urban, suburban, and rural communities. I am also licensed to teach Reading and English Language Arts (and soon to be licensed in secondary science and math). I began my career teaching English as a Foreign language in Vienna, Austria as part of a joint research and teaching Fulbright grant.
My research grows out of my teaching experience and is broadly focused on teaching and learning about genocide in K-12 curricula and classrooms. I am particularly interested in the possibilities and limitations for genocide education to serve both for and as reparative justice in settler colonial nation-states, such as the United States or Canada. My first book, Unsettling Narratives: Teaching About Genocide in a Settler Space (2025; Ethics Press), explores a semester-long high school genocide studies course in a rural school right here in Rock County. Alongside a group of American, Canadian, German, and Namibian colleagues, I am currently working on a research project to record Ovaherero and Nama survivor-descendant testimonies and create genocide education curricula for high schools in North America, Europe, and Southern Africa.
In addition to my teaching and research, I enjoy long-distance unsupported bicycle touring; Appalachian folkways, especially storytelling (I grew up in the Allegheny Mountains of Northern Appalachia), reading poetry, and exploring Beloit with my dog.
- Safe Zone Trained (and facilitator)
- Trained in Beloit College’s Restorative Justice Practices