During 1992-1993, he was director of the Connecticut Academy of English, Geography, and History, a teachers' institute at UConn. He was co-director of “Integrating Human Rights into Your High School Curriculum: A Professional Development Institute for Educators” that was sponsored by the Coalition of Human Rights Organizations of New England at UConn in June 2005. He has lectured for the Connecticut Consortium for Law-Related Education, CREC Institute on International Relations at St. Joseph College, and at the 2010-11 Teaching American History Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library in Staunton, Virginia. He holds a M.A. in education from the University of Rochester.
On the international scene, he has presented papers at conferences in New Castle, Australia and in Dublin, Ireland. During 1994-1995, he taught in the Department of History at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) and during 2009-2010 in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University (Ankara, Turkey). He lectured at the First and Fifth International Cultural Conference at Izmir in 1995 and at Cesme in 2000. His essays on politics and culture appeared in the Turkish Daily News. As a Senior Fulbright Lecturer, he gave talks throughout Turkey. He has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Amercian Studies of Turkey since its founding in 1995.
The U.S. Department of Education, Committee for the International Exchange of Scholars, Connecticut Humanities Council, and Hartford Consortium for Higher Education have supported his endeavors. At UConn, the Human Rights Institute, Humanities Institute, Provost's Research Fellowship, and Research Foundation have awarded him grants. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Early Republic, Connecticut History, and Journal of American Studies of Turkey. He is a member of the State Historical Preservation Board and past member of the State Historical Records Advisory Board. The Hartford Courant has published his op-eds.
Professor Goodheart can be reached at lawrence.goodheart@uconn.edu, (860) 570-9273 or (860) 570-9089.