(updated version, 12 Sept. 2002)
History of Education Society Annual Meeting
2002
Pittsburgh Marriott City Center
31 October-3 November 2002
Program Committee
Jim Albisetti (Univ.
of Kentucky), chair
John Rury (Spencer Foundation)
Ed Beauchamp (Univ.
of Hawaii)
Amy Schutt (Colgate University)
Jackie Blount (Iowa
State University)
David Setran (Wheaton College)
Marjorie Lamberti
(Middlebury College)
Harry Smaller (York University)
James Leloudis
(Univ. of North Carolina)
Gerald Smith (Univ. of Kentucky)
Victoria-Maria
MacDonald (Florida State Univ.)
Amy Wells (Univ. of New Orleans)
Bill Reese
(University of Wisconsin)
Jonathan Zimmerman (New York
Kate Rousmaniere
(Miami University)
University)
Local Arrangements Coordinator
Robert Levin, Youngstown
State University
Special Thanks To:
Toby Edson, University of Oregon
Robert Hampel, University of Delaware
Joe Trotter (chair) and Steven Schlossmann
(former chair),
Department of
History, Carnegie-Mellon University
Bill Tate (chair) and Jim Wertsch (former chair),
Department
of Education, Washington University, St. Louis
David Hamilton (chair),
Department of History, University
of Kentucky
9:00-5:00—Board meeting, Executive Board Room
4:00-7:00—Registration, Foyer A
8:00-5:00—Registration, Foyer A
8:00-5:00—Book Exhibit, Ballroom 6
Chair: Roberta Wollons (Indiana University Northwest)
Julia Grant (Michigan State University), Child Study and the Backward
Boy in
Thomas Ewing (Virginia Tech),
Soviet Educational Psychology and the
“Scientific” Study of Gender in
the 1920s
Emily D. Cahan (Wheelock College), Science, Practice, and Welfare:
Competing
Comment: Kathleen Jones (Virginia Tech)
How Much Do They Really Need Us? American Teachers’ Self-Preparation from Manuals, Extracurricular Activities, and Alternative Programs
Chair: Margaret Nash (University of California, Riverside)
Barbara Beatty (Wellesley College), Advice for “Bad” Teachers:
Ludus
Literarius and Other Colonial and Antebellum Teachers’ Manuals
Christine Ogren (University of Iowa), Breathing “The Ozone of
Teaching”:
Bethany Rogers (New York University), An Antidote for “Bad”
Teachers:
Comment: The Audience
Chair/Comment: Craig Pepin (SUNY-Plattsburgh)
Benita Blessing (Ohio University), The Gendered Classroom: Girls’ and Boys’
Experiences in Postwar Germany
Catherine Plum (University of Wisconsin), The Contested Space of
Namensverleihung:
Comparing Berlin School Names under Communism and
John Rodden (University of Texas), Education, Youth Policy, and
Eastern
Chair: Milton Gaither (Messiah College)
William Wraga (University of Georgia), Progressive Pioneer: Alexander
W. L. Prehn (University of
Virginia), Sandcastles on Dover Beach? Faith and Doubt in the Making of the
American High School Curriculum, 1890-1918
Kimberly Marinucci (New York University), From Politicization
to
Comment: B. Edward McClellan (Indiana University)
Friday, 1 November, 10:15-12:00
Chair: Amy Wells (University of New Orleans)
Jana Nidiffer and Timothy Reese Cain (University of Michigan),
Managing
the Modern University: Provosts and Presidents in Ten
Late-19th-Century
Andrea Walton (Indiana University), Stewards of Higher Education: The
Role
of the Female Trustee
Robert A. Schwartz (Florida State University), The Rise and Demise of
Deans
of Men in American Higher Education, 1910-1970
Comment: Richard Angelo (University of Kentucky)
Chair: Mary Rose McCarthy (Pace University)
Mary Rose McCarthy and Barbara Shircliffe (University of South Florida),
“Why
don’t we just go back to neighborhood schools?”: Student Historical Consciousness and Teaching Educational History
J. Wesley Null (Baylor University), Integrating Foundation of Education in a Teacher Education Program
Margaret Nash (University of
California, Riverside), The Challenge of
Linking Historical and Contemporary Issues
Julie Lochbaum (Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine), Teaching Foundations of Education in a Medical School Setting
Respondent: Robert Levin (Youngstown State University)
Chair/Comment: John Rury (DePaul University/The Spencer Foundation)
Anne-Lise Halvorsen (University of Michigan), The Foundation and
Evolution
of the High Scope Curriculum, 1962-1980
Laurel Park (University of Michigan), The University of
Michigan-Tuskegee
Institute Exchange Program
Kenneth Gold (College of Staten Island, CUNY), “We just don’t want to
keep on
going to useless meetings”: Community Organizing at Detroit’s Jefferson
Junior
Jenny DeMonte (University of Michigan), The Politics of Aid to
Parochial
Chair: Sherman Dorn (University of South Florida)
Jan Van Wiele (Catholic University of Leuven), “Inclusivism” or
“Exclusivism”
in Belgian and French Canadian
Primary and Secondary Education before Vatican II: A Case Study of Catholic Inter-religious
Mentality in Belgium and
Quebec in Catholic Religious Textbooks (1860-1960)
Lisa Zagumny (University of
Tennessee), What’s between “Us” and “Them”?
Muslim Women in
19th-Century Geographies
Melissa Klapper (Rowan
University), Preserving Culture in Turn-of-the-Century
Lauri Johnson (SUNY at Buffalo),
“Democracy can not thrive on Prejudice and
Comment: Victoria-Maria MacDonald (Florida State University)
Friday, 1 November, 12:05-1:15
Chair: Clarence Taylor (Florida International University)
Ami Neiberger (University of Florida), Desegregating an Educational
Program
Cynthia Taines (University of Wisconsin), “That No Good Cause Shall
Lack a
Champion: African-American
Newspapers and the Struggle for School
Comment: Barbara Shircliffe (University of South Florida)
African-American Education in the 19th-Century North
Chair/Comment: Ronald Butchart (University of Georgia)
Hilary Moss (Brandeis University), “Cast down on every side”: The Demise
of the First “African College” and the Rise of Opposition to Black
Education in
Antebellum New England
Russell Irvine (Georgia State University), Charles Avery and Avery’s
College,
1849-1912: Pittsburgh Philanthropy
Luncheon Meeting of the Editorial Board of History of Education Quarterly
Kate Rousmaniere (Miami University) and Connie Goddard (Roosevelt University), Writing about Teachers—And for Teachers: Discussion of a Possible Series of Books about Educational History Aimed at Classroom Teachers, Administrators, and Parents
Chair: Susan Poulson (University of Scranton)
Christopher Loss (University of Virginia), Getting Personal: Therapeutic
Culture
and American Higher Education, 1919-1941
Laura Micheletti Puaca (University
of North Carolina),”For College Women
There is Now a Strident Call”:
Feminism, Higher Education, and the Second World War
Philo Hutcheson (Georgia State University), A Rational and Planned
Future:
The American Council on Education, the G. I. Bill, and the 1947
President’s
Gene Chintala (Tiffin University), Reshaping Post-War Society: President
Comment: Linda Eisenmann (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Chair: Leslie Miller-Bernal (Wells College)
Benjamin Burks (University of Virginia), “To Awaken from Idle
Slumber”: The
Virginia Normal and Collegiate/Industrial Institute and the Activities of
Its
Graduates (1883-1929)
Thomas O’Brien (Ohio State University at Mansfield), Selling
Industrial
Education in the Jim Crow South:
The Life and Work of Joseph W. Holley,
1874-1958
Monica Knight (University of Georgia), Selling Washington, but Doing
Dubois:
Serena Wilson (Georgia State University), Contemporary Black Higher Education: A Mutation of DuBois’s Theory?
Comment: Linda Perkins (Hunter College/CUNY)
Revisiting Curriculum Revision, Race, Student-Centered Reform, and Mental Retardation, 1910-1950
Chair: Jana Noel (California State University, Sacramento)
Eric Cummings (Pennsylvania State University), The Real Reason for
the
Stanford-Binet: Exploring
the Links between Lewis M. Terman and the
David Gamson (Pennsylvania State University), Reinterpreting
Curriculum
Reform, 1920-1950: What Were the Accomplishments and Outcomes of
the
Karen Benjamin (University of Wisconsin), Compromising Liberalism: E.
E.
Oberholtzer’s Racial Politics
in the Tulsa and Houston School Systems, 1913-1929
Marc VanOverbeke (University of
Wisconsin), Stopping the “Mad Race after
Comment: David Labaree (Michigan State University)
Chair: Daniel Golodner (Wayne State University)
Jackie Blount (Iowa State University), The Erasure of Lesbian/Gay/ Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT) Teachers from Radical History
Kathleen Murphey, (Indiana
University-Purdue University Fort Wayne), The
Yoon Pak (University of Illinois),
The Invisibility of Asian-American Teachers’
Kate Rousmaniere (Miami
University), Women Teachers Don’t Count: The
Valinda Littlefield (University of
South Carolina), “A Peach Out of Reach”:
African-American Women School
Teachers and the Dilemma of Image and
Activism
Comment: The Audience
Trends in 19th-Century Schooling
Chair/Comment: Robert Hampel (University of Delaware)
John Burton (DePaul University), Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars:
Secondary
Stephan Brumberg (Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center),
God-Fearing
People, Godless Schools: Secularizing Public Schools in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America
Christopher Rasmussen (University
of Michigan), Development, Implementation,
and Response to the
Establishment of “Diploma Relations” between High Schools
and the University of Michigan
African-American Educators in the 20th Century
Chair: Elizabeth Ihle (James Madison University)
Carol Karpinski (Rutgers University), J. Rupert Picott and the
Strengthening of a
Louis Ray (Hunter College/CUNY), Advocacy, Provocation, and
Scholarship:
The Journal of Negro Education Editorials of Charles H. Thompson, 1932-1941
Adah Ward Randolph (Ohio University), Employing Democracy as a Tool
to
Comment: Michael Fultz (University of Wisconsin)
Education in the Southwest
Chair: J. Wesley Null (Baylor University)
Melissa Bingmann (Arizona State University), Prep School Cowboys:
The
Susan Richardson (Pennsylvania State University), “The Worst Threat to
Our
State and Nation”; Texas Lawmakers and Their Pursuit of New Dealers, Communists, and Inter-racialists in State Higher Education, 1938-1945
Lee Duemer (Texas Tech
University), The History of The Catalyst: The
Comment: David Adams (Cleveland State University)
Chair: Thomas Ewing (Virginia Tech University)
Frank Simon (University of Gent) and Marc Depaepe (Catholic University of
Leuven), Open-Air Schools:
A Real Innovation? Some
Reflections from the
Milton Gaither (Messiah College), Intellectual Roots of the Modern
Homeschool
Comment: Barbara Beatty (Wellesley College)
James Anderson (University of Illinois)
(For many years the R. Freeman Butts lecture has been a central feature of the AESA meetings, reflecting that organization’s tradition of promoting history of education as central to educational studies. The History of Education Society gratefully acknowledges the efforts of Joseph Newman of the University of South Alabama, this year’s program chair for AESA, in making this joint event possible)
Continental Breakfast with slide presentation, followed by bus and walking tour led by Joel Tarr (additional fee and pre-registration required)
Ideology and Education in the 18th Century
Chair: Kim Tolley (Independent Scholar)
Anilkumar Belvadi (Washington University), “Ungospellized
Plantations”:
Early Eighteenth-Century Educational Theory and Practice from
Massachusetts
to the Malabar
William Cahill (Independent Scholar), Romance and Environmentalism in
18th-
Anne Christina Rose (Johns Hopkins University), Émile and the
“Empire of
Comment: Keith Whitescarver (College of William and Mary)
Education after Defeat in Germany and
Japan
Chair: Edward Beauchamp (University of Hawaii)
Don Martin and Yasumi Moroishi (University of Pittsburgh), Women in
Higher
Education in Post-World War II Occupied Japan: The Effect of
Democratic
Kathrin Meyer (Technical University Berlin), Women’s Internment Camps
in the
US Occupation Zone: A Case Study in the Shift from Enforced Detention to Enlightened Democracy, 1945-1952
Craig Pepin (SUNY-Plattsburgh),
“An Unnecessary Break with the Past”?:
Comment: Edward Beauchamp
Benita Blessing (Ohio University)
Means and Ends: The Impact of Educational Philanthropy on the Experience of African-American Southerners
Chair: Alfred Moss (University of Maryland)
Chris Carbaugh (South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities), Laying the Foundation: The General Education Board as a Facilitator for the Work of Later Foundations in the Promotion of Southern Black Education
Mark Schultz (Lewis University), The Rosenwald Watershed: Selling Black Education to the Jim Crow South
Gayle Westbrook (Marianna High School), The Rosenwald Philanthropy: Building Gilmore Academy, a School for African Americans in Northwest Florida
Comment: Eric Anderson (Pacific Union College)
Chair: Alan Wieder (University of South Carolina)
Craig Kridel (University of South Carolina), Living with the Biographical Subject
Kate Rousmaniere (Miami University), Birth to Death: Chronologial Annoyances
Wayne Urban (Georgia State University), Autobiography and the Historian
Alan Wieder, Oral History as Testimony: Conduit or Critic?
Comment: V. P. Franklin (Columbia University)
Multiethnic Intersections in Education: Illinois, Mississippi, and Tennessee, 1900-1990
Chair: James Anderson (University of Illinois)
Stephanie Robinson (University of Illinois), The Influence of Old World Views in the New World
Sieglinde Lim de Sanchez (University of Illinois), Braided Histories: The Education of Chinese, Italian, Jewish, and Mexican Children in Memphis and the Mississippi Delta, 1945-1955
Carol Huang (Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville), Revolving Door Immigration Policy, Welfare Reforms, and the Schooling of Midwest Mexican Migrants’ Children: A Historical Case Study of the Oldest Migrant Summer Educational Program in Illinois
Comment: Valinda Littlefield (University of South Carolina)
Chair: Sarah Barnes (independent scholar)
David Jones (independent scholar), Synecdoche? The University of Melbourne and the History of Australian Higher Education
Karl-Heinz Füssl (Humboldt
University, Berlin), German Academic Émigrés at
Black Mountain College after 1933: An Exploration in American-European Education
Malie Montagutelli (University of Paris 8), Writing on the History of American Education in France: One Historian’s Experience
Comment: James Albisetti (University of Kentucky)
History and Social Studies in the 20th Century
Chair: David Setran (Wheaton College)
Iftakhar Ahmad (Long Island University), Civic Education in Twentieth-Century America: A Theoretical Analysis
Joseph Watras (University of Dayton), Social Studies or History, 1892-1937: Part of a Struggle for the American Curriculum?
Jared Stallones (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona), Paul Robert Hanna and Expanding Communities
Linda Symcox (California State University, Long Beach), Whose History? The Struggle for National Standards in American Classrooms
Comment: The Audience
Studies in 19th-Century
Colleges
Chair: Lynn Gordon (University of Rochester)
Ethan Schrum (Wheaton College), James Marsh: The Unknown Pioneer of Teaching English Literature in American Higher Education
Jeffrey Bouman (University of Michigan), Student Life, Religious Faith, and Curricular Expansion, 1850-1920: Evangelical and Progressive Attempts to Integrate Faith and Learning in American Higher Education
Priscilla Brewer (University of South Florida), “Nasty Feminine Rows”: Student Politics and Northern Women’s Colleges, 1870-1910
Comment: Roger Geiger (Pennsylvania State University)
Chair: V. P. Franklin (Columbia University)
Jan Briffaerts (Catholic University of Leuven), What Was It Like in the Colonial Classroom? Reality of Education in the Belgian Congo, the Mbandaka Case (1908-1960)
Pierre Kita Masandi (Catholic
University of Leuven), The Role of Songs in Colonial Education in the Belgian
Congo
Alan Wieder (University of South Carolina), Teachers Fighting Apartheid: Oral Testimonies
Comment: Ntal Alimasi (University of Pittsburgh)
Book Session: Jonathan Zimmerman’s Whose America? The Culture Wars in the Public Schools
Chair: Thomas O’Brien (Ohio State University at Mansfield)
Panelists: Jackie Blount (Iowa State University)
James Carper (University of South Carolina)
Catherine Lugg (Rutgers University)
Jeffrey Mirel (University of Michigan)
Response: Jonathan Zimmerman (New York University)
Interactive Symposium: Reconceptualizing the “Other” in the Curriculum: Representations of Race and Ethnicity in “Americans All, Immigrants All” and “Canadians All,” 1938-1947
Chair: Harry Smaller (York University)
Panelists: Lauri Johnson (SUNY at Buffalo)
Yoon Pak (University of Illinois)
Reva Joshee (University of Toronto)
Comment: The Audience
20th-Century Philanthropy: Administering, Asking, Receiving
Chair: Linda Eisenmann (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Amy Wells (University of New Orleans), A Woman in a Man’s World: Sydnor Walker and Rockefeller Philanthropy during the 1920s and 1930s
Marybeth Gasman (Georgia State University), Convincing Words? Fundraising Language Used by the United Negro College Fund in the Immediate Post-Brown Period
Auden Thomas (Indiana University), Welfare Women Go Elite: The Ada Comstock Scholars Program
Comment: Jana Nidiffer (University of Michigan)
Psychology and Education in the Mid-20th Century
Chair: Emily Cahan (Wheelock College)
David Setran (Wheaton College), “Character and the Clinic”: The Shift from Character to Personality in Public School and YMCA Character Education Programs, 1930-1940
Michelle Boulé (New York University), Control Your Emotions! Psycho-social Guidance Films in the Postwar Classroom
Jody Hall (University of Massachusetts, Boston), The 1960-64 Battle over Psychological Foundations of Learning: Cold War, Psychology, and Schooling
Comment: Julia Grant (Michigan State University)
Chair/Comment: Jonathan Zimmerman (New York University)
Benjamin Justice (Rutgers University), Thomas Nast and the Schools: A Reconsideration
Sevan Terzian and Andrew Grunzke (University of Florida), Representations of the American Intellectual in Film During the Cold War, 1948-1963
Craig Peck (Colgate University), How Social Protest Groups Educate
Cows, Corn, and Coeducation: Women at Land-Grant Colleges in the Midwest and West during the 19th and 20th Centuries
Chair/Comment: Christine Ogren (University of Iowa)
Doris Malkmus (Independent Scholar), “She Shall Have Her Full Share”: Coeducation at Midwestern Land-Grant Institutions, 1853-1871
Andrea Radke (University of Nebraska), The Roots of Coeducation at Western Land-Grant Universities, 1862-1890
Sarah Barnes (Independent Scholar), Moving Beyond Home Economics: Women at Midwestern and Western Land-Grants, 1920-1960
Schooling and Teaching before the Civil
War
Chair: John Burton (DePaul University)
Connie Goddard (Roosevelt University), Albion’s Seed and America’s Schools: An Inquiry into the Religious Origins of Regional Differences in Attitudes toward Schooling in the United States in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Elizabeth Eder (University of Maryland), “To Sample Southern Manners and the Plantation Way of Life”: The Experiences of Margaret Clark Griffis, a Northern Teacher in the Antebellum South
Kim Tolley (Independent Scholar), Teaching for a Living: An Analysis of Economic Incentives to Teach in Massachusetts, New York, and North Carolina, 1815-1850
Comment: James Leloudis (University of North Carolina)
Presidential Address
Mary Ann Dzuback, Washington University
Annual Business Meeting of the History of Education
Society
Saturday, 2 November, 6:30-7:30
Reception
Marquis
Ballroom
(Sponsored by the
Department of Education, Washington University, and the Department of History,
Carnegie-Mellon University)
Saturday, 2 November, 7:30-9:30
HES Banquet Marquis Ballroom
Announcement of
winners of book, article, and dissertation prizes
Speaker: Donald Warren (Indiana University)
Urban Society and Education in the 20th Century
Chair/Comment: Jeffrey Mirel (University of Michigan)
Sam Stack (West Virginia University), Elise Ripley Clapp and the Paterson Silk Workers Strike of 1913
Catherine Wycoff (University of
Wisconsin-LaCrosse), “Money Buys Any copper in This City”: Chicago
Working-Class Ethnic Youths, the Police, and Alternative Lessons in Citizenship
Christina Collins (University of Pennsylvania), “Ethnically Qualified”: The Changing Face of the New York City Teaching Force, 1950-1975
Chair: Adah Ward Randolph (Ohio University)
Kim Sebaly (Kent State
University), Contrasting Approaches to
Conservation Education in Ohio, 1928-1950
Kevin Bower (University of Cincinnati), Schools, Communities, and the National Youth Administration in Ohio, 1935-1943
Claudia Keenan (New York University), PTA Business: Culture and Control in Suburbia, 1920-1960
Comment: Nancy Beadie (University of Washington)
Chair/Comment: Wayne Urban (Georgia State University)
Paul Ramsey (Indiana University), Preserving Kultur: German Teachers in Indianapolis
Joshua Garrison (Indiana University), Professional and Institutional Reconceptualizations: The Early History of Junior High School Teachers in the Midwest, 1910-1925
Steven Sowell (Indiana University), Indian Service Teachers’ Institutes
Chair/Comment: Mary Ann Dzuback (Washington University)
Mary Graciano (University of Michigan), From Rhetoric to Composition: The Debate about Teaching Writing at the University of Michigan, 1903-1927
Timothy Cain (University of
Michigan), A Place of Silence and
Cowardice: World War I and
Un-American Faculty at the University of Michigan
Samantha King (University of Michigan), “What is good for America is good for Detroit, and what is good for Detroit is good for the immigrant”: The Detroit Committee on Americanization and Preserving the American Way of Life, 1915-1920
Special Schools, Eugenics, and Marginalization, 1880 to
1920s
Chair: David Gamson (Pennsylvania State University)
Jonna Perrillo (New York University), Documenting Distress: The Case History
in Progressive-Era Education Writing
Jana Noel (California State University, Sacramento), Intelligence Test Developers, Eugenics, and the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924
Erich Dietrich (New York
University), “Does that make me a Negro?”:
Eugenics Education in the 1920s
and the Teaching of Race through Visual
Comment: Hamilton Cravens (Iowa State University)
Chair: Kim Sebaly (Kent State University)
Carole Hancock (Ohio University), Each in Her Own Way: Nineteenth-Century Educational Patterns That Enabled Three Female Leaders, Caroline Severence, Ella Flagg Young, and Olivia Davidson Washington
Stephen Mucher (University of Michigan), Curricular Alternatives for Prospective Teachers in 19th-Century Michigan
Sonia Murrow (Long Island University), From the Center to the Periphery: The History of History in Teacher Education
Daniel Resnick (Carnegie-Mellon University) and Robert Levin (Youngstown State University), The Shortage of Qualified Teachers: History and Policy
Comment: Kathleen Murphey (Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne)
Chair: Susan Semel (City College of New York)
Elizabeth Ihle (James Madison University), Undergraduate Education at the University of Virginia
Leslie Miller-Bernal (Wells College) and Susan Gunn Pevar (Lincoln University), Slowly Only at First: Women Enter Historically Black Lincoln University (PA)
Susan Poulson (University of Scranton), The Transitions to Coeducation at a Religious and a State Institution: Rutgers and Georgetown Universities
Marcia Synnott (University of South Carolina), Coeducation at Yale and Princeton Universities, 1969-1970s
Comment: Susan Semel
Peter Wallenstein (Virginia Tech)
The Spirit of Brown: From Post-War to Post-Community Control
in New York City
Chair: Christina Collins (University of Pennsylvania)
Martha Biondi (Northwestern University), Kenneth Clark, the Brown Decision, and the New York City Board of Education
Adina Back (New York University), Courts and Classrooms: Legal Challenges to De Facto Segregation in 1950s New York City
D. Crystal Byndloss (Manpower Demonstration Research), Minority Parents, Teachers, and Activists Speak Out in Support of community Control in Ocean Hill-Brownsville
Clarence Taylor (Florida International University), The Legacy of the 1968 Teachers’ Strike: Destruction of a Broader Teacher Unionism
Heather Lewis (New York University), Separate But Equal: Teacher Quality Matters
Comment: Jim Carl (Cleveland State University)