Doran Katz, Ed.D.
CONSULTANT
Dr. Doran “Dodie” Katz is a consultant who currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Pedagogy and Applied Linguistics as well as the Assistant Director of Graduate Studies at the Middlebury School of Hebrew, Middlebury Language Schools. Dr. Katz received her Doctorate in Education at George Washington University. Her dissertation research focused on the teaching of the Holocaust and how it is studied within racially diverse high school populations. Dodie is also a scholar participant in the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at the Washington Baltimore Center of Psychoanalysis. She holds an MA from Brandeis University in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and a BA from Brandeis University in Anthropology, Hebrew Language and Literature, and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies.
Dr. Katz is passionate about using her ability to teach, lead, and connect in a way, which can empower others in positions of influence to create opportunities for dialogue, engagement, and self-actualization. Dodie’s belief in the positive power of human connection has been inspired, in part, by her years as a language learner which has created powerful and enduring relationships across culture, geography, and race.
Dodie has rich experience as a researcher, teacher, mentor, consultant, and curriculum designer. In her current academic role, Dodie teaches and advises Masters and Doctoral students at Middlebury, works in graduate admissions, and helps oversee the quality and strategy of the program’s academic offerings. Dodie has many years of experience working in different areas of education, beginning with her career as a high school teacher. It was in those classrooms that Dodie fell in love with the mutually transformative nature of teaching and learning and where she first began to ask questions about pedagogy which she continues to explore to this day. Dr. Katz’s research interests range from educational leadership to the teaching of difficult histories in the social studies classroom, second language acquisition, and learning and identity formation.
In her personal time, Dodie enjoys going for a run, reading, and spending time exploring local nature with her husband, children, and rescue dog.