Publications:
Journal Articles (refereed)
Manuscripts in press or print
Schmidt, S. J. (2024). Embracing queer: Possibilities for gender and sexuality expansiveness in history education. Theory & Research in Social Education, 1-27.
Schmidt, S. J. (2023). Merging landscapes: socio-spatial intersections and formations of belonging among African migrant youth in the US. Visual Studies, 38(3-4), 351-365.
Schmidt, S. J. (2022). “We Don’t Live In Jungles”: Mediating Africa as a Transnational Socio-Spatial Field. Teachers College Record, 124(6), 38-61.
Schmidt, S. J. (2021). Un/Scripting Queer Subjectivity. The High School Journal, 105(1), 43-59.
Schmidt, S.J. (2020). Contemplating democratic education in a migratory world. NEUPA
Schmidt, S.J. (2019). Family trees and pajama parties: The (un)intelligibility of gender in single-sex classrooms in the US. Gender, Place, and Culture.
Schmidt, S.J. (2017). Hacked landscapes: Tensions, borders, and positionality in spatial literacy.
Journal of Geography, 116(3), 99-108.
Schmidt, S.J. (2016). Using landscapes to tell spatial stories. The Councilor, 77(2).
Schmidt, S.J. (2015). The queer arrangement of school: A spatial study of inequity. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 47(2), 253-273.
Schmidt, S.J. (2014). Civil rights continued: How history positions young people to contemplate sexuality (in)justice. Equity and Excellence in Education, 47(3), 353-369.
Schmidt, S.J. (2013) Claiming our turf: Students’ civic negotiation of the public space of school. Theory and Research in Social Education, 41(4), 535-551.
Schmidt, S.J. & Babits, C. (2013). Occupy Wall Street as a Curriculum of Space. Journal of Social Studies Research. 38(2), 79-89
Schmidt, S.J. (2013). Fabricating a nation: The function of national museums in non-racial re-presentation and the national imagination. Museum Management and Curatorship, 28(3), 288-306.
Schmidt, S.J. (2012). Am I a woman?: The production of woman in U.S. History. Gender and Education, 24(7), 707-724.
Schmidt, S.J., Chang, S.P., Carolan-Silva, A., Lockhart, J., Anagnostopoulos, D. (2012). Recognition, responsibility, and risk: Pre-service teachers’ framing and reframing of lesbian, gay, and bisexual social justice issues. Teaching and Teacher Education, 28(8), 1175-1184.
Garrett, H.J. & Schmidt, S.J. (2012). Repeating until we can remember: Difficult (public) knowledge in South Africa. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 28(1), 191-206.
Schmidt, S.J. (2011). Who lives on the other side of that boundary: A model of geographic thinking. Social Education. 75(5), 250-255.
Schmidt, S.J. & Garrett, H.J. (2011). Reconstituting pessimistic discourses. Critical Arts. 25(3), 423-440.
Schmidt, S.J. (2011). Making space for the citizen in geography education. Journal of Geography, 110(3), 107- 119.
Schmidt, S.J. (2011). Theorizing place: Students’ navigation of place outside the classroom. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 27(1), 20-35.
Schmidt, S. J. (2010). Queering social studies: A query of the space for sexual orientation and identity in the social studies. Theory and Research in Social Education, 38(3), 314-335.
Schmidt, S.J. (2010). Bringing the Other closer to home: Geography education in the post-colonial. Critical Literacy: Theories and Practices, 4(1), 29-47.
Schmidt, S. (2008). Practicing critical democracy: A perspective from students. Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2(1), 38-54.
Segall, A. & Schmidt, S. (2006). Reading newspapers as social text. The Social Studies, 97(3), 91-99.
Manuscripts under review
Schmidt, S.J. (under review). “This is how a synth learns to love”: Africanfuturisms as Social Studies Text. The Social Studies
Book Chapters
Schmidt, S.J. (forthcoming). Using Mapping and Slam Books to Excavate Queer Articulations Amongst Young People. In Creative research on gender and sexuality in childhood and youth.
Schmidt, S.J. & Tran, V.A. (2025). Civic Discontent: West African Youth and the Politics of Non-Belonging. In M.T. Ndemanu, P.O. Ojiambo, & J.C. Kigamwa (Eds.), African immigrant children in the United States: Challenges, achievements, and lived experiences (pp. 151-174). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Schmidt, S.J. (2024). A Queer Agenda for Gender<>Sexuality in Social Education. In The Social Studies Curriculum: Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities, 5th Edition. SUNY Press.
Schmidt, S.J. (2024). Queer Geography. Always-Already On the Lookout: Searching For, Enacting, and Storying Theory in Social Studies Education! TC Press.
Schmidt, S.J., Estes, E., Gomez, I. (2023). Youth are already queer: Agentive possibilities among queer TikTok creators. In B. Varga, T. Monreal, & R.C. Christ (Eds.), Toward a Stranger and More Posthuman Social Studies (pp. 165-178). Teachers College Press.
Schmidt, S.J. (2022). The spatiality of a pandemic: deconstructing social inequality through social inquiry. In W. Journell (Ed.), Post-Pandemic Social Studies: How COVID-19 Has Changed the World and How we Teach (pp. 94-110). Teachers College Press.
Schmidt, S.J. (2021). AfricanFuturisms. In D. Friedrich, J. Corson, & D. Hollman (Eds.) Pop Culture and Curriculum, Assemble! Exploring the Limits of Curricular Humanism Through Pop Culture. Dio Press Inc.
Schmidt, S.J. (2019). The spatial production and navigation of vulnerable citizens (pp.41-58). In E. Shin & S. Bednarz (Eds.), Spatial citizenship education: Citizenship through geography. Taylor & Francis
Gaudelli, W.G. & Schmidt, S.J. (2017). Global citizenship education and geography. In I. Davies,
- Ho, Kiwan, C. Peck, A. Peterson, E. Sant, & Y. Waghid (Eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Global Citizenship and Education.
Schmidt, S.J. (2017). Genderplay and queer mapping: Heterotopia as sites of possibility. In N. Ares, E. Buendia, & R. Helfenbein (Eds.), Deterritorializing/Reterritorializing: Critical geographies of educational reform. Sense Publishers.
Schmidt, S.J. (2016). ‘Within the sound of silence’: Critical examination of LGBQ issues in national history textbooks (pp. 121-141). In J.H. Williams & W.D. Bokhurst-Heng (Eds.), (Re)Constructing memory: Textbooks, identity, nation, and state. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Schmidt, S.J. & Kenreich, T. (2015). Uncovering narratives of race through spatial inquiry. In P. Chandler (Ed.), Doing Race in Social Studies: Critical Perspectives. Information Age Publishing.
Schmidt, S.J. (2014). ‘United in our diversity’: Public museums in the production of a South African nation. In B. Trofanenko & A. Segall (Eds.), Beyond pedagogy: Reconsidering the public purpose of museums (pp. 135-154). Boston: Sense Publishers.
Schmidt, S.J. (2012). Queer geography: A query of norms in the social studies. In T.W. Kenreich (Ed.), Geography and social justice in the classroom (pgs. 129-149). New York: Routledge.
Schmidt, S.J. (2012). Let me in: The impact of divergent discourses on research and curricular (re)formation. In E. Meiners & T. Quinn (Eds.), Sexualities in education. New York: Peter Lang.
Schmidt, S.J. (2010). Civics education curriculum. In C. Kridel, W. Schubert, & M.R. Bull (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of curriculum studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Schmidt, S.J. (2010). Geography education curriculum. In C. Kridel, W. Schubert, & M.R. Bull (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of curriculum studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Schmidt, S.J. (2010). History of geography education curriculum. In C. Kridel, W. Schubert, & M.R. Bull (Eds.), Encyclopedia of curriculum studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Schmidt, S. (2010). Examining privilege in globalization. In E. Heilman (Ed.), Social studies and diversity education: What we do and why we do it (pp. 202-206). New York: Routledge.
Schmidt, S. (2007). Gender gap: The disjuncture between Western-developed policies and their African- determined implementation. In R. Maboleka (Ed.), Soaring beyond boundaries: Women breaking educational barriers in traditional societies. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers
Reviews and reports
Schmidt, S.J. (2022). Civic Education Curriculum Revision Report on the Assessment of Civic Education Surveys. Tunisia Ministry of Education and USAID.
Schmidt, S.J. (2015). Decelerating and demystifying the path toward global social studies education. Theory and Research in Social Education, 43(1), 140-146.
Schmidt, S.J. (2013). Geography in Practice: Contesting boundaries. In E.M. Schell, K.J. Roth, & A. Mohan (Eds.), A road map for 21st century geography education: Instructional Materials and Professional Development (pp. 57-58). Washington, D.C.: National Council for Geographic Education.
Schmidt, S.J. (2009). Book Review: World City by Doreen Massey. Educational Studies, 45(3), 330-335.
Schmidt, S. (2004). Continuous assessment for teacher education in south Sudan: A manual for teacher educators. Secretariat of Education and the Sudan Basic Education Project.
Miske, S., Schmidt, S., Santhe, E. (2003). Findings from an exploratory study of teachers’ beliefs and practices about pupil assessment in Malawi. Improving Educational Quality Project, AIR.
Miske, S., Schmidt, S., Santhe, E. (2003). The relationship of ranking pupils to teaching and learning. IEQ, AIR.