History of Education Society

Schedule of Events

Thursday, October 20, 2005

11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Registration
LIBERTY FOYER

8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	History of Education Society Board Meeting
DOUGLAS

Noon - 1:00 p.m.	HES Graduate Student Committee Meeting and Luncheon
TBA

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.	Concurrent Sessions

PRATT A	Philanthropy and the Education of African Americans and Deaf Students
	Perzavia Praylow, University of Illinois
	"I think I'd Like to Have the Experience of Meeting a Negro": Elite White Women Raise Funds for Black Colleges
	Marybeth Gasman, University of Pennsylvania
	Advancing Gallaudet: A Historic Look at Alumni Support for the Nation's University for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
	Noah Drezner, University of Pennsylvania
	Linking Friends in Service: Black Women Philanthropists "Link" Up to Lift Up through Education and Philanthropy
	Kijua Sanders-McMurtry, Georgia State University
	Chair & Discussant: Jana Nidiffer, University of Michigan

PRATT B	Missionaries, Imperialists and Democracies: Western Educational Influences in the 20th Century Philippines, Tanzania, China and Post-War Germany
	Chair: Youn-Ho Park, Gwangju National University of Education, Korea
	Western Missionaries in Tanzania: Norman Dilworth as a Case Study of Hybridity
		Fabian Maganda, University of South Carolina
	Infusing Democracy: The 1946 U.S. Education Mission to Germany
		Charles Dorn, Bowdoin College
	The Socially Disruptive Effects of Modern Educational Reform in Early 20th Century China
		Thomas Curran, Sacred Heart University
	Discussant: Bruce Leslie, SUNY-Brockport

Thursday, October 20, 2005

3:00-4:30 p.m.	Concurrent Sessions (Cont’d)

POE	Racial Segregation in the North: An Examination of Selected Schools in New Jersey
	Chair: Anne Phillips, Rowan University
	Defer No Longer: A Politico-Philosophical Look at Civil Rights Enforcement, 1945-Present
		Christopher Yates, Rowan University
	An Oral History of the Richardson Avenue School: An Expression of African American Hope
		John Ciocco, Rowan University
	Long Branch Segregation and White Flight in Monmouth County
		John Vaccarelli, Rowan University
	Discussant: Eben Laurenzi, Rowan University

5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.	Welcome Reception
HALL OF FAME LOUNGE	Co-hosted by the Graduate Student Committee and the Diversity Committee

Friday, October 21, 2005

8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.	Registration
LIBERTY FOYER

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.	HES Book Exhibit
HOPKINS

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Concurrent Sessions

PRATT A	Oral History and Educational History: Theory, Methods Practice
	Participants: Alan Wieder, University of South Carolina
	Barbara Finkelstein, University of Maryland
	Valinda Littlefield, University of South Carolina
	Jack Dougherty, Trinity College
	Maxine Stephenson, University of Auckland

Friday, October 21, 2005

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Concurrent Sessions (Cont)

PRATT B	New Visions/New Interpretations: The Contributions of Three New Books in the History of Higher Education
	Chair: Kim Tolley, Notre Dame de Namur University
	- Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1840 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
		Margaret Nash, University of California-Riverside
	The American State Normal School: "An Instrument of Great Good" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
		Chris Ogren, University of Iowa
	A History of American Higher Education (John Hopkins, 2004)
		John Thelin, University of Kentucky
	Discussants: Ron Buchart, University of Georgia
	Barbara Beatty, Wellesley College
	Jane Nidiffer, University of Michigan
	Linda Eisenmann, John Carroll University

POE	Southern Women's Work in Education: The Activities of Women's Groups in Progressive Era Educational Reform in Tennessee
	Chair: Janice Leone, Middle Tennessee State University
	"New Levels of Attainment:" The Work of Women in Defining Need and Developing Policy Toward Progressive Educational Reform in Tennessee
	Mary Evins, Middle Tennessee State University
	To Serve by Precept and Example: African American Women Teachers' Efforts during the Progressive Era in Nashville, Tennessee
	Sonya Yvette Ramsey, University of Texas, Arlington
	Redefining Settlement Work: Educational Activities of Southern Women
	Janice Leone, Middle Tennessee State University
	Discussant: Kriste Lindenmeyer, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Friday, October 21, 2005

8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	Concurrent Sessions (Cont’d)

MENCKEN	Controversial Issues in Recent and Modern Educational History
	Chair:
	From Early Childhood Education Critic to Home School Champion: The Curious Ascendance of Raymond Moore, 1961-1985
	Casey Patrick Cochran, Emory University
	A Broken Covenant: A History of New York State's First Charter School, 1999-2005
	Richard Ognibene, Siena College
	Teach the Controversy: A Historical Analysis of Challenges in Pennsylvania to Teaching the Theory of Evolution
	John Jones, Pennsylvania State University
	Discussant: Jeff Mirel, University of Michigan

CALHOUN	HES Prizes: Winners of the 2005 Claude C. Eggertsen Dissertation Award and Henry Barnard Best Article by a Graduate Student Award
	Member of Eggertsen Prize Co. Victoria-Maria Macdonald, University of Maryland
	Claude C. Eggertsen Prize, Best Dissertation: Opportunity and Opposition: The African American Struggle for Education in New Haven, Baltimore, and Boston, 1825 - 185 Hillary J. Moss, Amherst College
	Chair of Barnard Prize Co.: Jim Carl, Cleveland State University
	Barnard Prize, Best Article: Lady Teachers' and the Genteel Roots of Teacher Organization in Gilded Age Cities Karen Leroux, Northwestern University
	Honorable Mention: “A Brave New Breed of Teachers”: The UFT and the Masculinization of the Teaching Profession, 1961-1964 Diana C. D'Amico, New York University

10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	COFFEE BREAK
LIBERTY FOYER

Friday, October 21, 2005

10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.	Concurrent Sessions

PRATT A	Smoking in the Boys Room: A Historical Look at High School Student Culture
	Chair: Patricia Palmieri, CUNY-Staten Island
	The "Boy Problem" in America: Truancy, Delinquency and Special Education, 1890-1950
	Julia Grant, James Madison University
	"The big distinction was being in a club, not which one." Social Life and Social Status: High School Fraternities and Sororities in Bloomington, Indiana, 1917-1940
	David Martin, Indiana University/Purdue University-Columbus
	Learning to Smoke: Canadian Adolescent Girls, the Health Curriculum and Popular Culture, 1950-1970
	Sharon Anne Cook, University of Ottawa
	Boosters and Knockers: High School Student Culture in Staten Island, 1890-1940
	Kenneth Gold, College of Staten Island-CUNY
	Discussant: Cally Waite, Teacher’s College

PRATT B	Community, Culture & Learning in the Big Cities: A Look at Race and Ethnicity in Baltimore, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York City
	Chair: V.P. Franklin, Dillard University
	Polish Community, Culture and Learning in a Southern Metropolis: The Polish Presence in Baltimore in the Late 19th and 20th Centuries"
	Frederick Augustyn, The Library of Congress
	There Ain't No North Any More: Racial Conflict and the Struggle for Intercultural Education in the Detroit and Los Angeles Schools, 1943-1950
	Lauri Johnson, University of Buffalo
	Yoon Pak, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
	What Science Teaches: Modern Lessons on "Race" in New York City, 1939-1945
	Zoe Burkholder, New York University
	Discussant: Eileen Tamura, University of Hawaii

Friday, October 21, 2005

10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.	Concurrent Sessions (Cont’d)

POE	Education for Liberation: The Promise and Peril of Private Black Colleges
	Chair: Linda Perkins, Claremont Graduate School
	We do not Protest, We Educate: The Influence of Philanthropy on Black Higher Education, 1925-1940
	Stephanie Wright, University of West Georgia
	The Closing of Colored College of the Catholic College of Oklahoma, 1936-1942
	Katrina Sanders-Cassell, University of Iowa
	Constitutional Rights vs. Campus Rules at Private Colleges in the 1960s
	Joy Ann Williamson, Stanford University
	Discussant: Linda Perkins, Claremont Graduate School

MENCKEN	A Gendered Education in Antebellum America
	Chair: Adah Ward Randolph, Ohio University
	Sophia Sawyer and the Fayetteville Female Seminary: A Mount Holyoke on the Arkansas Frontier
	Teri Castelow, University of Memphis
	Town and Gown: Gender and Higher Education in Antebellum America
	Mary Clingerman, Michigan State University
	Not a Mere Smattering of Courses: Higher Education in New England Female Academies, 1820-1860
	Jo Anne Preston, Tufts University
	Discussant: Roberta Wollons, Indiana University-Northwest

Noon - 1:30 p.m.	HES Graduate Student Open Meeting
PRATT B	All Graduate Students are invited to attend; box lunch will be provided, courtesy of HES President.
	Chair: Perzavia Praylow, University of Illinois
	Guests: David Labaree, Stanford University, HES President
	Kate Rousmaniere, Miami University, 2005 HES Vice President & Program Chair
	Nancy Beadie, University of Washington, 2006 Vice President & Program Chair

Friday, October 21, 2005

1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.	Concurrent Sessions

PRATT A	HES Outstanding Book Award: “More Than One Struggle” and Writing about Race in Educational History
	Chair: William Cutler, Temple University
	Outstanding Book Award Winner for 2005: More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee
	Jack Dougherty, Trinity College
	Honorable Mention: Advancing Democracy: African Americans and Their Struggle for Access and Equity in Texas
	Amilcar Shabazz, University of Alabama
	Honorable Mention: The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981