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Dr. Anthony Citrin is the senior Professor of Education in the School of Education at Peru State College. His primary responsibilities are teaching Elementary methods courses, advising elementary education majors, teaching Graduate Education courses and advising undergraduate students. Teaching responsibilities include both live and on-line courses.

Dr. Citrin has been a department head for both Elementary Education and Graduate Studies. He was the Chief GED Examiner for Southeast Nebraska for fifteen years. His special area of interest is the detection and prevention of child abuse and neglect. His many workshops on this topic have included every geographic region of Nebraska, as well as presentations across the United States.  

Dr. Citrin has also functioned as an expert witness and advisor for the Attorney General’s office of Nebraska and has trained EMT’s for the Nebraska Health Department. Dr, Citrin served as the most senior board member of Project Response, a local domestic abuse service organization for over thirty years. He has in the past been a member and unit chairperson of the Nebraska Foster Care Review Board.

Dr. Citrin’s publications are primarily in the area of Child Abuse and Neglect.
Dr. Citrin is a native of Portland, Maine where he received his public-school education. He received an Associate of Arts Degree and a Social Services Technician Certificate from Lees Jr. College in Kentucky and a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts Degree in Elementary Education from the University of Kentucky. Dr. Citrin completed an Educational Specialist Degree at Central Michigan University in School Administration and a Doctor of Education Degree in Educational Leadership from Western Michigan University. Preceding his work at Peru State College Dr. Citrin was an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and a tenured Associate Professor of Education at Minot State College (now Minot State University).

Dr. Citrin also served as an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine on a non-tenure contract. His first experience as a college professor was as a part time instructor at Western Michigan University while he was earning his doctoral degree.
Dr. Citrin’s public school experience included three years with the Fayette County Schools in Lexington, Kentucky. Here he taught one year in an inner-city ghetto elementary school and two years in a suburban elementary experimental school. Dr. Citrin Also taught three and a half years in the Beaverton Rural Schools of Beaverton, Michigan where he was a tenured fourth grade instructor.

At various times Dr. Citrin has been certified as an Elementary Teacher, Secondary Social Studies and Language Arts teacher, Elementary Principal and Supervisor. Dr. Citrin has continued a close association with elementary students by sponsoring and participating in area Social Studies Fairs in conjunction with his methods class. Dr. Citrin has also taught specialty honors classes for a neighboring elementary school system.

At the present time Dr. Citrin is completing his thirty-sixth year at Peru State College and his fifty-second year as an educator. Dr. Citrin resides just outside Peru, Nebraska in a rural setting. His home is less than two miles from his office.

Degrees: 

1980 to Present – Postdoctoral work completed at Western Michigan University, University of Maine.  (Also, a wide variety of computer workshops and noncredit computer classes).

                1978, Ed.D. in Educational Leadership (Western Michigan University)

                 1976, Ed.S. in School Administration (Central Michigan University)         

                1970, M.A. in Elementary Education (University of Kentucky)

                1968, B.A. in Elementary Education (University of Kentucky)

                1967, A.A.  and a Certificate as a Social Service Technician (Lees Junior College)