John M. Heffron, Ph.D.

Dean of Students and Professor of History

• Ph.D., University of Rochester
• M.A., University of Rochester
• B.A., Princeton University

• At SUA since 1996
• 1997 - Present, Director of Educational Research Programs; Associate Director Pacific Basin Research Center, Soka University of America
• 1991 - 1996, Assistant Professor University of Hawaii at Manoa
• 1990 - 1991, Visiting Assistant Professor Montana State University

• Development History
• U.S. Relations in Asia and the Pacific
• Educational History

• Dennis A. Rondinelli and John M. Heffron, eds.  Globalization & Change in Asia (Lynne Reinner Publishers), 2007 
• “Between Reconstruction and Restoration: Three Historical Case Studies,” John D. Montgomery and Dennis A. Rondinelli, ed., Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Lessons for Development Experience (Pelgrave Macmillan), 2004
• “Beyond Community and Society: The Externalities of Social CapitalBuilding,” John D. Montgomery and Alex Inkeles, ed., Social Capital as a Policy Resource (Kluwer), 2001
• “The Lincoln School of Teachers College: Elitism and Educational Democracy,” Susan F. Semel and Alan R. Sadovnik, ed., Schools of Tomorrow, Schools of Today: What Happened to Progressive Education? (Peter Lang), 1999
• "Nation-Building for a Venerable South: Moral and Practical Uplift in the New Agricultural Education, 1900-1920,” Wayne J. Urban, ed., The Limits of Exceptionalism: Southern Education in the Twentieth Century (Garland Press),1999
• “ 'to form a more perfect Union': The Moral Example of Southern Baptist Thought and Education,'" Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, 8 (Summer 1998):179-204., 1998
• “Defining Values,” John D. Montgomery, ed., Values in Education: Social Capital Formation in Asia and the Pacific (Hollis Publishing), 1997
• "Toward a Cybernetic Pedagogy: The Cognitive Revolution and the Classroom, 1948 - Present," Educational Theory, 4 (Fall 1995): 497-518, 1995
• "Science and the Challenge of Public Education," History of Education Quarterly 36 (Summer 1995): 179-187, 1995
• "Science in General Education: Otis W. Caldwell (1869-1947) and the Rise of the Unified Science Course," Science & Education, 4 (September 1995): 227-252, 1995

• Western World I & II
• The City in History
• The Intellectual in History
• Science, Myth, and Religion
• CORE I & II  
• The American Experience
• Introduction to the Pacific basin

• Fulbright Teaching Award Finalist, 2005
• National Endowment for the Humanities, 1991