Joel Breakstone

Joel Breakstone is Co-Founder and Executive Director of DIG. He directed the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) from 2013 to 2023. He leads DIG's efforts to research, develop, and disseminate free curriculum and assessments. This work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and E.W. Scripps. His research has appeared in a range of journals, including Educational Researcher, Misinformation Review, and the Journal of Educational Psychology, and has won awards from the American Historical Association, the National Council for the Social Studies, and the National Technology Leadership Initiative. He completed a B.A. in history at Brown University, a M.A. in liberal studies at Dartmouth College, and a Ph.D. at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Before Stanford, he taught high school history in Vermont.