Division F - History & Historiography
Announcements
2013 Mentoring Seminar for Graduate Students and Junior Faculty (Application)
All graduate students and junior faculty members who are members of AERA Division F are invited to apply. Priority will be given to graduate students who have completed their coursework, and to junior faculty or independent scholars within 4 years of degree completion. AERA will reimburse attendees for Thursday night’s lodging, and will provide dinner on Thursday and breakfast on Friday.
Questions? Contact Tim Cain ([email protected]).
Please send applications by January 31, 2013 by e-mail to [email protected] OR by mail to: Tim Cain 351 Education Bldg, MC-708 1310 S. Sixth Street Champaign, IL 61820
Bylaws for AERA Dvision F (Draft Bylaws 2011)
One of the action items on the 2011 Division F Business Meeting agenda is to consider the draft bylaws for the division. Background: In 2009 Nancy Beadie, David Labaree, and Karen Graves formed an ad hoc committee to draft a set of bylaws for Division F, in accordance with AERA instruction. Division F members reviewed the first draft at the 2010 business meeting in Denver and the committee edited the draft according to members’ suggestions. The ad hoc committee submitted the second draft to the AERA Central Office for review. The committee prepared a third draft to reflect commentary by the AERA Central Office. Action: A copy of the third draft is now available: Draft Bylaws 2011. You may send comments regarding the draft to Karen Graves at[email protected]. In addition, the revised draft bylaws will be presented to the Division F membership for discussion at the Division F Business Meeting to be held at the 2011 Annual Meeting of AERA.
Dear Colleagues, You may have noticed that the preliminary program for the 2011 American Educational Research Association conference in New Orleans is now available online. You can log in to access the program at https://www.aera.net/AALogin2011.aspx. Look for additional messages regarding Division F: History and Historiography activities as we move closer to the conference, April 7-12. In the meantime, I'd like to thank members of the Division F Program Committee, chaired by Roland Sintos Coloma, for their good work on the program: AJ Angulo, Jess Clawson, Marybeth Gasman, Margaret Nash, Nashwa Salem, and Joy Williamson-Lott. The committee has successfully partnered with our colleagues across AERA to highlight aspects of historical research that inform other areas of education research. Toward that end Division F has cross-listed sessions with Division B: Curriculum Studies, Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education, the Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity in Education, and the Graduate Student Council. We have also collaborated with the following Special Interest Groups to co-list sessions: Catholic Education; Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies; Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education; Early Education and Child Development; Hispanic Research Issues; Indigenous Peoples of the Americas; Queer Studies; Research Focus on Black Education; Religion and Education; and, Research on Women and Education. At the invitation of AERA President Kris Gutierrez, Division F is co-sponsoring two Presidential Sessions. "The Legal and Social Construction of Race: History and the Politics of Latinos in Education," 10:35 a.m., Saturday 9 April, is chaired by Ruben Donato with James Anderson as discussant. Roland Sintos Coloma will chair "Coming to Terms with our Past: Historical Memory," 2:15 p.m., Monday 11 April. This session features presentations by Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Laura Munoz, Eileen H. Tamura, Amy E. Wells-Dolan, Ronald S. Rochon, and William H. Watkins. For the first time in recent memory the AERA annual meeting will open with a plenary session. The speaker is historian Diane Ravitch, "Who Kidnapped Superman," 6:00 p.m., Friday 8 April. Other Division F conference events include the History and Theory Institute, Thursday 7 April, and the Mentoring Seminar: "Thriving in Academe," Thursday and Friday, April 7-8. Special registration is required for these pre-conference sessions. Graduate student representatives Jess Clawson and Nashwa Salem have organized the Graduate Student Council Division F Fireside Chat for Sunday, 10 April, at 12:25. They have invited Jackie Blount and Laura Munoz to lead the session, "Contesting the 'His' in History: How to Address Hetero-Patriarchy in Historical Research and Teaching." These highlights merely scratch the surface of a rich and full AERA conference. Please see the online program at https://www.aera.net/AALogin2011.aspx. You can search by participant, division or other unit, and papers. I hope to see you in New Orleans! Sincerely, Karen Graves Vice-President, Division F: History and Historiography, AERA
AERA 2011 ANNUAL MEETING DIVISION F: HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY
Other Scholarly Organizations and Upcoming Meetings
History of Education Society: The History of Education Society will hold its 2010 Annual Meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the LeMeridian Hotel (20 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA 02139)from November 4 to 7, 2010. This will be the 50th anniversary meeting of the Society, and in addition to the papers, sessions, and panel discussions as well as the opportunities to explore the educational heritage of the Boston area, organized by the Local Arrangements Committee, we are planning activities during the Annual Meeting in celebration of the Society’s history. For more information on the meeting and submitting proposals (due February 16, 2010), see the History of Education Society website: http://www.historyofeducation.org/annual_meeting.html With best wishes, Philo Hutcheson Vice-President and Program Chair, History of Education Society
HES Graduate Students: Greetings everyone! On behalf of the History of Education Graduate Student Committee, I would like to invite all HES members, especially graduate students, to provide input on graduate student centered events for the 2009 Annual Meeting. My fellow committee members and I are eager to follow-up on last year's successful planning under the leadership of Kate Sedgwick including the Friday lunch forum on "The Past, Present, and Future of the History of Education" and the fun dinner outings on Thursday and Friday nights. Additionally, the current committee is continuing to work on improving communication outlets for HES members including better usage of our facebook group and the development of a graduate student listserve and webpage. Please send your suggestions and questions to Michelle Purdy at [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you at the 2009 HES Meeting in Philadelphia! Best, Michelle Purdy
Historians in the Association for the Study of Higher Education: "HASHE-ing It Out" When scholars think about the various disciplinary perspectives that are employed to study higher education they may commonly consider sociology, economics, political science, psychology, business, or organizational science. What less often comes to mind is the study of higher education from an historical perspective. At a meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) several years ago, Philo Hutcheson organized a breakfast of colleagues. Because we are historians (and because it was breakfast) we came to call ourselves HASHE (for historians at ASHE). In the ensuing years, we have grown in size, reached out to graduate students interested in our field, and developed a more focused agenda. Our purpose is to support each other’s research and to raise the profile of historical inquiry within the higher education scholarly community. At our regular “get-together” at each ASHE meeting, we discuss paper and panel proposals for the subsequent meeting. Our mission also includes communicating our belief that understanding the history of the enterprise is critical to understanding the contemporary issues faced by higher education. Any faculty member or graduate student interested in historical research who would like to be on our email list, please email Jana Nidiffer at [email protected].
The Organization of Educational Historians (formerly the Midwest History of Education Society) generally meets in Chicago in the early fall. For more information on the organization, seehttp://www.edhistorians.org/.
Awards
History of Education Society's 2010 Claude A. Eggertsen Dissertation Prize The History of Education Society is accepting submissions for the Claude A. Eggertsen Prize for the dissertation judged to be most outstanding in the field of History of Education. This includes work on schooling and educational institutions more broadly, and the dissertation may have a domestic or international focus. The next award will be presented at the 2010 meeting of the History of Education Society. The prize carries an award of $1,000 for the winner. Self nominations are welcome. Qualified applicants must have completed the dissertation and graduated during the calendar year 2009. The postmark deadline for entries is April 16, 2010. Please direct questions to Margaret Nash, [email protected]. Entrants should send one copy of the complete dissertation toeach of the three prize committee members: Margaret A. Nash (chair) Graduate School of Education 900 University Avenue Sproul Hall 1207 Riverside, CA 92521-0128 Valinda W. Littlefield Department of History Gambrell Hall 237 University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208
Brian M. Puaca Department of History Christopher Newport University 1 University Place Newport News, VA 23606
The History of Education Society’s 2010 Outstanding Book Award
The History of Education Society facilitates research in the history of education, encourages cooperation among specialists in the field, and promotes the relevance of historical perspective to educational policy-making. The Society also publishes The History of Education Quarterly. A committee of The Society annually reviews nominees for an Outstanding Book of the Year award. The author of the winning publication receives a $1,000 cash prize. Works are eligible which consider any aspect of the history of education, formal or informal, whether in the U.S. or abroad, provided they bear a 2009 copyright date. Publishers who plan to submit a book (or books) in nomination should inform the committee chair, Amy Thompson McCandless [[email protected]], at their earliest convenience. In order to be considered, review copies must be received by all three members of the committee at the addresses listed below no later than May 31, 2010.
Dr. Amy Thompson McCandless The Graduate School of the College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 20424
Dr. John Rudolph Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction University of Wisconsin 225 N. Mills St. Madison, WI 53706
Dr. Derrick P. Alridge 550 Sandstone Drive Athens, GA 30605
History of Education Society's 2010 Linda Eisenmann Prize
The History of Education Society is pleased to announce the creation of the Linda Eisenmann Prize for Distinguished Scholarship by a Junior Scholar in the Field of the History of Higher Education in the United States. The first award will be presented at the HES Annual Meeting in November, 2010.
The Prize Committee (Marybeth Gasman, Roger Geiger, and Bruce Leslie) solicits nominations for works that fulfill the following criteria: Subject: The History of Higher Education in the United States Authors: A Junior Scholar (i.e., PhD awarded since January, 2004) Genre: An article, essay, or book Publication Date: March, 2008 through February, 2010 For further Information: Contact Bruce Leslie at: [email protected] Nominations may be made by the author, another scholar, or by the Prize Committee. Nominations may include two letters of support by scholars in the field. The work should be forwarded to the Prize Committee members either in paper (three copies) or as electronic versions. Please submit these by May 15 to:
Prof. Marybeth Gasman Graduate School of Education University of Pennsylvania 3700 Walnut St., Rm 423A Philadelphia PA 19104 [email protected]
Prof. Roger L. Geiger Higher Education Program Penn State University 400 Rackley Bldg. University Park, PA 16802 [email protected]
Prof. Bruce Leslie, Chair History Department The College at SUNY Brockport, NY 14420 [email protected]
Marybeth Gasman blogs for The New York Times on the topic of Black Colleges. Check it out athttp://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/. The blog will continue through the month of March, 2010.
A New Journal
The Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME) is now accepting submissions. JAAME is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to advancing scholarship and influencing practice regarding African American males in education. JAAME is committed to the study of African American males throughout the educational pipeline (P-20), in various contexts (e.g., urban, suburban, rural), and in multiple capacities (e.g., students, parents, teachers, counselors, faculty, administrators, and fathers). Additional information on submitting articles to JAAME can be obtained at www.journalofafricanamericanmales.com. Members of the editorial board can be contacted at http://journalofafricanamericanmales.com/contact.
The Bookself--Congratulations To:
Josh M. Beach, A Gateway to Opportunity? History of the Community College in the United States(Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2010). This book, available September 2010, is Beach's first scholarly monograph. The work "describes and analyzes the ideological, social, and political motives that led to the creation of community colleges, and that have shaped their subsequent development."
Marybeth Gasman's new edited book will appear in May. The History of U.S. Higher Education: Methods for Understanding the Past (Routledge, 2010) includes chapters by Katherine Chaddock, Wayne Urban, Linda Eisenmann, John Thelin, Jane Robbins, Jana Nidiffer, Philo Hutcheson, Amy Wells-Dolan, and many other historians of higher education. "The first volume in the Core Concepts of Higher Education series, The History of U.S. Higher Education rebuilds a constructive relationship between the field of higher education and the disciplinary field of history. This book explores critical methodological issues in the history of American higher education, including often-overlooked issues such as race, class, gender, and sexuality."
Valerie J. Janesick's new book on oral history appeared in January. Oral History for the Qualitative Researcher: Choreographing the Story (Guilford Press) introduces the full array of oral history research methods and invites students and qualitative researchers to try them out in their own work. Using choreography as an organizing metaphor, the author presents creative strategies for collecting, representing, analyzing, and interpreting oral history data. Instructive exercises and activities help readers develop specific skills, such as nonparticipant observation, interviewing, and writing, with a special section on creating found data poems from interview transcripts. Also covered are uses of journals, court transcripts, and other documents; Internet resources, such as social networking sites; and photography and video. Emphasizing a social justice perspective, the book includes excerpts of oral histories from 9/11 and hurricane Katrina, among other detailed case examples.
Karen L. Graves, And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida's Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers(University of Illinois Press, 2009): "Focusing on Florida’s purge of gay and lesbian teachers from 1956 to 1965, this study explores how the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee,commonly known as the Johns Committee, investigated and discharged dozens of teachers on the basis of sexuality. Karen L. Graves . . . highlights the importance of sexuality in American and education history and argues that Florida’s attempt to govern sexuality in schools implies that educators are distinctly positioned to transform dominant ideology in American society."
Christopher M. Span, From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009): This work is "the first comprehensive examination of Mississippi's politics and policies of postwar racial education. . . Span finds that newly freed slaves made heroic efforts to participate in their own education, but too often the schooling was used to control and redirect the aspirations of the newly freed."
Linda Symcox has two new edited books: Julie Andrezejewski, Marta Baltodano, and Linda Symcox, ed., Social Justice, Peace, and Environmental Education: Transformative Standards (Routledge, 2009). Linda Symcox and Arie Wilschut ed., National History Standards: The Problem of the Canon and The Future of Teaching History (Information Age Publishing, International Review of History Education series, 2009).
Scot Danforth, The Incomplete Child: An Intellectual History of Learning Disabilities (New York: Peter Lang, 2009): "This book tracks the historical creation of the science of learning disabilities, beginning with the clinical research with brain-injured World War I soldiers conducted by German physician Kurt Goldstein. It traces the growth of the two primary research traditions, the psycholinguistic theory of Samuel Kirk and the movement education of Newell Kephart, exploring how specific scientific orientations, theories, and practices led to the birth of the learning disability in the United States."
Christine Woyshner, The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897-1970 (Ohio State University Press, 2009): "In The National PTA, Race, and Civic Engagement, 1897–1970, Christine Woyshner examines the PTA in relation to its racial politics and as a venue for women’s civic participation in educational issues. Her argument is that the PTA allowed for discussions about race and desegregation when few other public spaces, even the schools, did so during this time."
Clio at the Table: Using History to Inform and Improve Education Policy, ed. Kenneth Wong and Robert Rothman (New York: Peter Lang, 2009) contains articles about the relationship between historical analysis and policy making in education, resulting from a conference held at Brown University on the occasion of Carl Kaestle's retirement in June '07.
Paul Theobald, Education Now: How Rethinking America's Past Can Change Its Future (Paradigm Press, Boulder, 2009) examines "the way in which popular seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theories about the human condition formed the basis for America’s choices in the realms of politics, economics, and education. . . This book exposes the flaws among prevalent theories and the strength of those alternatives that were dismissed or ignored."
Thomas C. Hunt (University of Dayton) co-edited The Praeger Handbook of Religion and Education in the United States with James C. Carper of the University of South Carolina. This 2 volume work came out in March, 2009.
Career Moves--Congratulations To:
Alan Sadovnik has been named Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor at Rutgers University! Alan is Professor of Education, Sociology and Public Administration, and co-directs the Institute on Educational Law and Policy as well as the Newark Schools Research Collaborative. In accepting the award he honored his mother, Ruth Haas Sadovnik, who escaped Berlin on the Kindertransport during World War II and committed her life to service. You can read Carla Capizzi’s news release, “Rutgers Names Alan Sadovnik Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor for Contributions to Educational Policy, Accountability,” at Rutgers Newark, http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/newscenter/2010/12/2632/.
Catherine Lugg has been promoted to Full Professor at Rutgers University. She has also been elected President of the Politics of Education Association (AERA, SIG) for 2010-2012 and has won the 2009 Paula Case Silver Award (University Council for Educational Administration) and the 2009 Significant Body of Work Award (Queer Studies SIG, AERA).
Frances Helyar successfully defended her doctoral thesis at McGill University in Montreal in Spring 2010. She is entering her third year of a tenure track position in the Faculty of Education/Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Lakehead University, Orillia campus.
Jackie Blount is now Associate Dean in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. (She was previously at Iowa State University.)
Linda Eisenmann is now Provost at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. (She previously held a deanship at John Carroll University.)
Lauri Johnson left SUNY Buffalo this summer to take an Associate Professor position at Boston College in the Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education.