High School Teachers Institute

Directors

Co-Director, High School Teachers Institute

  • Sandy Russell Jones
  • Position: Associate Teaching Professor of Islamic History and Religion
  • Degree: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
  • at Rutgers: since 2008
  • Bio: Sandy Russell Jones (she/her) has taught courses on Islamic Civilization, Women and Gender in the Islamic Middle East, the history of Islamophobia, and Comparative Religion since 2008. She served as Director of the Middle Eastern Studies undergraduate program from 2010 – 2018, and has lived in Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, and Israel. Russell Jones also consulted on the New York City Department of Education Document project, providing 65 primary sources on Islamic History for use in the High School curriculum. She has had a long-standing interest in online teaching (well before COVID!). In 2014, Russell Jones received a grant to covert the Islamic Civilization survey course to an online asynchronous format, and she continues to seek out and utilize great tools for encouraging online engagement. In her free time, she writes narrative nonfiction, serves on the mental health committee at her church, cares for her backyard chickens, and advocates for a number of causes. She is thrilled to join the team at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis High School Teachers Institute and have the opportunity to meet local teachers and learn from her colleagues! If you would like to know more about her or the institute, please contact her at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
  • Phone: 848-932-8701