Kevin Krahenbuhl

Kevin Krahenbuhl holds a Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education and History and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, with an emphasis on Borders, Migration, and Culture from Arizona State University, as well as a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University. Krahenbuhl has ten years of experience teaching history in high school in Arizona, teaching history for several years in community college, and serving as a baseball and golf coach, including being part of multiple state championships. He has since worked in higher education as a professor in South Dakota and now in Tennessee. Krahenbuhl’s main lines of research have focused on applied cognition, the role of truth in educational contexts, learning in history, and learning with technology. He is the author of dozens of peer reviewed publications including several in widely read and top-tier journals, including Educational Leadership and The Kappan. He has presented hundreds of times on academic research and application of principles for learning in peer reviewed academic settings as well as in professional development and public training sessions. Krahenbuhl has been active in grant work as well. He served as a delegate of MTSU to the American University of Kurdistan, visiting Iraq on a federally funded grant in 2022, and is a co-PI on an NSF-funded, multi-million-dollar grant entitled “LEADS: Leaders in Education Advancing Data Science.” Krahenbuhl has also been active in the public arena as well. He has published over a dozen articles in popular, widely read outlets including The Chronicle of Higher Education and Medieval Warfare Magazine. He has been interviewed many times by media on topics associated with learning, cognition, history, and the concept of truth. He was recipient of the Zeitgeist Award for a published paper on diversity in teacher education and has served as a keynote speaker in states around the country.