Lawrence Charap

Lawrence Charap has been a fellow at the Institute for Learning since 2007. He serves as the Chair of the history/social studies Disciplinary Literacy team. Prior to joining the IFL, Charap worked for six years at the College Board as an associate director for content and curriculum development in the Advanced Placement (AP) program. At the College Board, Charap oversaw the creation of content for the AP teacher web site, AP Central, directed professional development and curriculum issues affecting AP history and social sciences courses, and managed ongoing efforts to revise the AP United States History course.

Charap has taught in a variety of venues, most recently in the history department of the University of Rhode Island#8212;College of Continuing Education, where he teaches the thesis course for history majors as well as twentieth-century U.S. history courses. Charap has also taught at Loyola College of Maryland, Towson University, and the Bryn Mawr School for Girls in Baltimore.

Charap has a B.A. in history from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in American history from Johns Hopkins University. His research as a historian focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Other research and teaching interests include American cultural, intellectual, and ethnic history and the history of the U.S. from 1880 to 1940.