Division F - History & Historiography

Announcements

AERA 2010 ANNUAL MEETING
DIVISION F: HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

Division F Mentoring Seminar
For Graduate Students and Junior Faculty
Thursday, April 29, 2010, and Friday, April 30, 2010
Denver, Colorado

On Thursday, April 29th (the evening before the opening day of the 2010 AERA meeting) and Friday, April 30th (the opening morning of the AERA meeting), a group of historians of education will hold a mentoring seminar for graduate students and junior faculty members. Application Deadline: Monday, January 11, 2010.

More information and application: 2010 Mentoring Seminar Flier with Application 

Questions?  Contact AERA Division F Graduate Student Representatives Jes Cisneros (cisneros@niu.edu) or Jess Clawson (jclaw@ufl.edu), or AERA Division F Mentoring Seminar Organizer Roland Sintos Coloma (roland.coloma@utoronto.ca).

"Mini Course" at AERA: Making Sense of Oral History in the Digital Era:  Integrating internet resources, blogs, videos and photography to tell a story
Sunday, May 2, 8:00am-12:00pm.  The location of the course will be announced at a future date.  Pre registration for this course is required.  For more information, contact:
Valerie J. Janesick, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
University of South Florida
VJanesic@tempest.coedu.usf.edu 
813-974-1274

Graduate Students in Division F:
A special welcome to graduate students interested in the historical context of all things educational!  Division F is a wonderful place to meet fellow graduate students and faculty that are supportive and helpful, regardless of how far along one might be in the process.  As scholars whose work addresses some aspect of the importance of historical context, those of us affiliated with Division F are already a bit in the "fish out of water" category in the broader field of educational research. This division provides a safe and nurturing environment where we can ask anything from "how do I make the transition from graduate student to faculty member.." to "how do I best deal with having to use APA style citation?" (oh no!! I thought all historians used Chicago Style!)
Division F is among the smallest within AERA. What might be a limitation in terms of size is more than made up for by the fantastic opportunities for mentoring and positive relationships among graduate students and faculty. As one of our division's graduate student representatives, I look forward to meeting each and every one of you in San Diego, and to hearing about your research interests and interests in general!
Jes Cisneros, Northern Illinois University

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 mpurdy@emory.edu. 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 nidiffer@oakland.edu.

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, see http://www.edhistorians.org/.

Award

2010 Claude A. Eggertsen Dissertation Prize
History of Education Society

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, manash@ucr.edu. Entrants should send one copy of the complete dissertation to each 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

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:

Valerie J. Janesick's new book on oral history will be out 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) became available in June.  "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) appeared early this summer.  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) appeared in March. "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) became available in February. "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) appeared in January.  The book 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) was published in hardback in January and paper release in June.  Theobald 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."

Jared R. Stallones, Struggle for the Soul: Integration, Reinterpretation, and Denial of Religious Experience in the Lives of Progressive Educators (Information Age Publishing, Studies in the History of Education series) will be published later this year. In a set of biographies, Stallones investigates the youthful religious experiences of selected progressive educators and assess the religious influences on their work in education.

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 of 2009.

Scott Baker's Paradoxes of Desegregation: African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina 1926-1972 (University of South Carolina Press, 2006) was selected as an outstanding academic title by Choice Magazine.

The Spring issue of the journal Film & History focused on historical portrayals of education in film. Included was Heather Weaver's paper,"Beyond Apples and Ice Cream: The Teacher-Student Relationship as Cinematic Romance, 1909-1939."

Theory and Research in Social Education (published by the College and University Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies) is planning a special issue for Fall 2009 on "Histories of Social Studies Thought and Practice in Schools and Communities," Christine Woyshner guest editor.

Career Moves--Congratulations To:

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.