{"id":79688,"date":"2024-08-12T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T14:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=79688"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:09:44","slug":"lauren-funk","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/lauren-funk\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Funk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lauren Funk is a lecturer specializing in social studies education at Boston University Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development. She teaches comprehensive foundational and social studies method courses to both undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Funk&#8217;s research expertise includes civic engagement, teacher reflection, educational legislation, and teacher resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the academic faculty, Dr. Funk enjoyed a career as a secondary history teacher in middle and high school environments. Her teaching experience spans various courses such as comparative politics, US government, and Western civilization. In addition to her instructional responsibilities, she has held roles such as administrative faculty team leader and dedicated mentor to first-year teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Pronouns: she\/her<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">Recent News<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2026\/scholarly-accomplishments-april-2026\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments, April 2026<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2026\/scholarly-accomplishments-february-2026\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments, February 2026<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/scholarly-accomplishments-september-2025\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments, September 2025<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/scholarly-accomplishments-may-2025\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments May 2025<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/bu-wheelock-scholarly-accomplishments-february-2025\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments February 2025<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2024\/bu-wheelock-welcomes-new-faculty-for-2024\/\">BU Wheelock Welcomes New Faculty for 2024<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h3>In the Media<\/h3>\n\n","protected":false},"author":21306,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/79688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21306"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/79688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81575,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/79688\/revisions\/81575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}