LINDA EISENMANN
Department of Leadership in Education
Graduate College of Education
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
(o) 617/287-7615 (fax) 617/287-7664
email:
linda.eisenmann@umb.edu
Harvard
University, Graduate School
of Education, Ed.D. in History of Education, 1987. Qualifying Paper passed with
distinction. Ed.M. 1981.
- Thesis: "Women at Brown University,
1891-1930: 'Academically Identical, But Socially Quite Distinct.'" Advisor: Patricia Albjerg Graham
Georgetown University, M.A. in English, 1977.
Connecticut College, B.A. in English, summa cum laude,
1975; Phi Beta Kappa, junior year.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor of Education, University of Massachusetts Boston, Graduate
College of Education (under review for promotion to Full Professor,
2003-04).
- Department Chair, 2001-2002, 1999; Director
of Doctoral Programs, 2001-2002, 1998; Tenured, 1999; Assistant
Professor, 1994-1999.
- Teach core courses, including history of
education, in doctoral programs in Higher Education and Leadership in Urban
Schools.
PREVIOUS
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
Harvard University/Radcliffe College, Mary
Ingraham Bunting Institute (now,
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study),
Assistant Director, 1990-1994.
Supported management of nation's oldest and
largest multidisciplinary research center for women. Worked with 45 new
scholars annually to facilitate their research and to foster a scholarly
community. Managed budget of nearly $1
million, including grants management and fundraising. Secured renewal of $5 million Women Science Scholars grant from
U.S. Office of Naval Research.
New
England Resource Center for Higher Education, University of Massachusetts Boston, Project Director, Study on the
Implementation of General Education Programs, 1989-1990 (funded by Exxon
Educational Foundation).
Institute for Educational Management and Management Development Program,
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Program Assistant and
Consultant, 1986-1990.
Supported two professional development
programs for university administrators.
Harvard Educational Review, Co-chair of Editorial Board, 1983-84, board member, 1982-84.
Coordinated work of twenty-member editorial
board and professional staff in publishing quarterly.
Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, Intern, summer 1980.
Supported project on faculty compensation and institutional rewards, including conducting interviews and developing survey instrument. Also examined the practice and potential growth of master's degree programs in Massachusetts.
Georgetown University, Career Counselor, 1977-1980.
Counseled students on long-term career and short-term
employment issues; designed and taught seminars; managed on-campus recruiting
program and federal intern program.
PREVIOUS TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Assistant Professor, Education Department and Writing Program, 1988-1990 (part-time).
"History of American Education," "Women, Education, and Work," and "Collegiate Women" - Designed and taught education and writing courses for liberal arts students, including students preparing for secondary teacher certification.
Harvard University Extension School, Cambridge, MA, 1990, 1991.
"Women, Education, and Work" - Designed and taught educational history course for varied student body, including graduate students and non-degree candidates.
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, Visiting Lecturer in Education, 1987-88.
"History of American Education" and "Issues in Twentieth Century American Education" - Courses focused on the ways education has adapted to new and diverse populations over time; included students preparing for secondary teacher certification.
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, Instructor, 1985.
- "Issues for Women in Higher Education" - Designed and taught half-semester course on concerns pertinent to women as students and professionals.
- "Purposes and Effects of
Education" - Team-taught, with Prof. Marvin Lazerson, history course
required of first-year doctoral students in administration.
RESEARCH POSITIONS
American National Biography, Associate Editor for Education, Oxford University Press, 1990-1999.
Project included selecting entries for inclusion in multi-volume, revised version of the Dictionary of American Biography, as well as writing biographical essays, nominating scholars to write sketches, and editing submissions. ANB published in 1999.
Study on the Education of Educators, Researcher, 1987-89.
Member of a team of historians directed by John I. Goodlad, Center for Educational Renewal, examining the history of teacher education in the United States. Conducted case studies of teacher training at three Pennsylvania universities and contributed book chapter on the state perspective. Published in Places Where Teachers Are Taught (1990).
Research Assistant, President Derek Bok, Harvard University, 1985.
Studied the history and current issues in graduate and professional education as background research for Higher Learning (1986).
Research Assistant, Prof. Barbara Sicherman, 1982.
Provided research assistance for biography of Dr. Alice Hamilton, industrial toxicologist and first female professor at Harvard University.
Research Assistant, Dean Patricia Albjerg Graham, Harvard University, 1981.
Conducted research for book on the role of the federal government in education throughout the nation's history.
PUBLICATIONS
IN
PROGRESS
Higher
Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965 : Reclaiming the Incidental
Student (under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press; ms. submitted
October 2003).
Accepted for Publication
“Brokering
Old and New Philanthropic Traditions: Women’s Continuing Education in the Cold
War Era,” in Andrea Walton, ed., Women and Philanthropy in Education
(forthcoming, Indiana University Press).
"Coeducation,"
invited for Encyclopedia of New England Culture (forthcoming, Yale
University Press).
Book
Editor, Historical Dictionary of Women's
Education in the United States, Greenwood Press, 1998.
Articles and Essays
“Integrating Disciplinary Perspectives into
Higher Education Research: The Example of History,” Journal of Higher
Education, vol. 75 (Jan./Feb. 2004): 7-22.
“Educating the Female Citizen in a Postwar
World: Competing Ideologies for American Women, 1945-1965," Educational
Review [U.K.], vol. 54 (2), 2002: 133-141.
“Creating a Framework for Interpreting U.S.
Women’s Educational History: Lessons from Historical Lexicography,” History
of Education [U.K.], vol. 30 (5), 2001: 453-470.
“Advocacy, Research, and Service: The
Pioneering Origins of the University of Michigan’s Center for the Education of
Women,” University of Michigan, Center for the Education of Women Research
Paper Series, Winter 2001.
"Reclaiming Religion: Historiographic
Challenges in the Relationship of Religion and American Higher Education,"
History of Education Quarterly, vol. 39 (Fall 1999): 295-306; part of
symposium, “A Conversation: Historiographic Issues in American Higher
Education.”
Biographical essays (three) on Mary Lyon,
Sarah E. Doyle, and Anne Crosby Emery Allinson, in American National
Biography, ed. John A. Garraty, Oxford University Press, 1999.
“Foreword” to Carolyn Terry Bashaw, Stalwart
Women: The Dean of Women and her Challenges on Coed Campuses in the South
(Teachers College Press, 1999).
"Reconsidering a Classic: Assessing the
History of Women's Higher Education a Dozen Years after Barbara Solomon," Harvard
Educational Review, vol. 67 (Winter 1997): 689-717. Article reprinted in Minding Women:
Reshaping the Educational Realm, 1998.
"Befuddling the 'Feminine Mystique':
Academic Women and the Creation of the Radcliffe Institute, 1950-1965," Educational
Foundations, vol. 10, no. 3 (Summer 1996): 5-26.
"Weathering 'A Climate of
Unexpectation': Gender Equity and the Radcliffe Institute, 1960-1995," Academe,
July/August, 1995: 21-25.
Review Essays
“One Woman’s Education: Jill Ker Conway’s
Smith College Years,” Harvard Magazine, 104 (5) (May/June 2002): 19-24.
"Women, Higher Education, and
Professionalization: Clarifying the View," Harvard Educational Review,
66 (Winter 1996): 858-73.
"Teacher Professionalism: A New
Analytical Tool for the History of Teachers," Harvard Educational
Review, 61 (1991): 215-24.
"Fighting Complacency: Assessing Women's
Status in Higher Education," Metropolitan Universities, 1
(Fall/Winter 1990-91): 101-08.
"Sisterhood and the Family Claim in
Nineteenth Century America," History of Education Quarterly (Fall
1989): 465-73.
Book Chapters
"Peggy McIntosh" [curriculum
specialist], biographical chapter in Women Educators in America: A
Biographical and Bibliographical Sourcebook, ed. Maxine Schwartz
Seller, Greenwood Press, 1994, pp.
306-14.
"'Freedom to be Womanly': The Separate
Culture of the Women's College, 1891-1930," in The Search for Equity:
Women at Brown University, 1891-1991, ed. Polly W. Kaufman, Brown Univ.
Press, 1991, pp. 55-85.
"The Costs of Partial Support: 100 Years
of Brown Graduate Women," in The Search for Equity: Women at Brown
University, 1891-1991, ed. Polly W. Kaufman, Brown Univ. Press, 1991, pp.
154-81.
"The Influence of Bureaucracy and
Markets: Teacher Education in Pennsylvania," in Places Where Teachers
Are Taught, eds. John I. Goodlad, Roger Soder, and Kenneth A. Sirotnik,
Jossey-Bass, 1990, pp. 287-329.
Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning, by Thomas Neville Bonner (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), reviewed for H-Net: Education, September, 2003.
Gender and the Restructured University: Changing Management and Culture in Higher Education, eds. Ann Brooks and Alison Mackinnon, Review of Higher Education, 26 (Summer 2003).
The
California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan,
by John Aubrey Douglass, History of Education Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2
(Summer 2001): 289-292.
A Good Poor Man’s Wife”: Being a Chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson & Her Family in 19th-Century New England, by Claudia L. Bushman, Historical Journal of Massachusetts (Summer 2000): 218-220.
The Political University: Policy, Politics, and Presidential Leadership in the American Research University, by Robert M. Rosenzweig, History of Education Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 1 (Spring 1999) 91-93.
Contending With Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century, by Philip Gleason, Historical Journal of Massachusetts, XXVI (Summer 1997): 189-191.
Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In, ed. Suzanne Hildenbrand, History of Education Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 245-46.
A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England, by Karen V. Hansen, Historical Journal of Massachusetts, vol. XXIV (Winter 1996): 99-102.
The Feminist Classroom, by Frances A. Maher and Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault, Teachers College Record, vol. 97, no. 3 (Spring 1996): 492-94.
True North, by Jill Ker Conway, Thought and Action, Vol. XI, no. 2 (Winter 1995): 139-44.
Blacks at Harvard: A Documentary History of African-American Experience at Harvard and Radcliffe, eds. Werner Sollors, Caldwell Titcomb, Thomas A. Underwood, Teachers College Record, vol. 96, no. 2 (Winter 1994): 358-60.
Research and Relevant Knowledge: American Universities from World War II to the Present, by Roger Geiger, History of Education Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3 (1994): 389-91.
Education and Women's Work: Female Schooling and the Division of Labor in Urban American, 1870-1930, by John L. Rury, History of Education Quarterly, Fall 1992.
Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present, by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Harvard Educational Review, Feb. 1988.
For The American School Board Journal: reviews of When Teenagers Work (May 1987); The Great School Debate (Feb. 1986); Public Schools in Hard Times (Feb. 1985); and Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (July 1984).
REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Integrating Disciplinary Perspectives into Higher Education
Research: The Uses of History,”Association for the Study of Higher Education
(ASHE), Sacramento, CA, November 2002.
“Equivocal Expectations: Educators’ Plans for Women’s Post-Secondary Training in Post-World War II United States,” paper presented at the International Standing Conference on the History of Education, Paris, France, July 2002.
“Brokering Old and New Philanthropic Traditions: Women’s
Continuing Education in the Cold War Era,” paper presented at the annual
meeting of ASHE, Richmond, VA, November 2001.
“The
Primacy of Institution-Building,” paper presented in symposium on “Speculating
on a Synthesis for Women’s Educational History: A Discussion of Four Potential
Interpretive Frameworks,” annual meeting of the History of Education Society
(HES), New Haven, CT, October 2001.
“Educating
the Female Citizen in a Postwar World: Competing Ideologies in the Higher Education
of American Women, 1945-1965," paper, International Standing Conference on
the History of Education, Birmingham, England, July 2001.
“Next
Steps in Analyzing the History of Desegregation of Southern Higher Education,”
invited critic for “Race, Gender, and Civil Rights in the Transformation of
Southern Public Universities, 1930s-1960s,” American Historical Association,
Boston, January 2001.
“Women, Deans, Professionals: A New Possibility or a
Contradiction in Terms?”, invited critic for panel, “Critical Reflections and
Scholarly Assessments: Three Historians Respond to the Recent Scholarship on
Women,” HES annual meeting, San Antonio, October 2000.
“‘Our
Respectful Way of Working Within the System’: 1950s Origins of Continuing
Education for Women at the University of Minnesota and Sarah Lawrence College,”
symposium presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational
Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, April 2000.
“Writing the Histories of Post-World War II Colleges and
Universities,” symposium presenter, HES, Atlanta, October 1999.
"Institutional Efforts at Gender Equity in the 1950s
and 1960s," paper presented for symposium, "Changing the Pictures in
Our Heads: Integrating Gender and Class into the History of Higher Education in
the United States," at AERA annual meeting, San Diego, April 1998.
"Reclaiming Religion: New Historiographic Challenges in the Relationship of Religion and American Higher Education," paper presented for symposium, "Questions of Historiography in Higher Education," HES annual meeting, Philadelphia, October 1997.
"Pedagogy and Performance: Linking Classroom Strategies and Assessment with Building Graduate Students' Critical and Reflective Thinking Skills," presentation at Association for the Study of Higher Education annual meeting, Albuquerque, November 1997.
"Joining Pedagogy and Performance: Classroom Strategies for Building Doctoral Students' Critical Thinking and Writing Skills," panel organizer and presenter at AERA annual meeting, Chicago, IL, March 1997.
"Ten Years After a Classic: Historical Research and Teaching on Women's Higher Education a Decade After Barbara Solomon," panel organizer and presenter at AERA annual meeting, San Francisco, April 1995.
"A Conversation about Educational Biography: Symposium on Biography Projects Focusing on American Educators," panel organizer and presenter at AERA annual meeting, New Orleans, April 1994.
"Befuddling the 'Feminine Mystique': Academic Women and the Creation of the Radcliffe Institute, 1950-1965," paper presented at HES annual meeting, Chicago, October 1993.
"Weathering 'A Climate of Unexpectation': Academic
Women at the Bunting Institute, 1960-1990," paper presented at AERA annual
meeting, San Francisco, April 1992.
"The Search for Equity in Higher Education: Women at Brown University," paper presented at AERA annual meeting, Boston, April 1990.
"Issues in the History of Teacher Education," paper presented at HES annual meeting, Chicago, November 1989.
"Male Faculty, Women Students: A Mixed Blessing for the First Women at Brown," paper presented at HES annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 1988.
"Women at Brown University, 1891-1930: Curricular Issues," paper presented at HES annual meeting, New York City, October 1987.
“Reclaiming the “Incidental Students”: Higher
Education and Women in the 1950s,” Vice Presidential Address, American
Educational Research Association (AERA), Division F (History and
Historiography), April 2003.
“Rehabilitating the 1950s: Women and Higher
Education in Postwar America,” presented at Wellesley College, “Issues in
Education” series, November 2002.
“Creating a Framework for Interpreting
Women’s Educational History: Impressions from the U.S. Case,” presentation for
the Department of Arts and Humanities, Teachers College, Columbia University,
January 2002.
“Higher Education for Women: Creating an
Historical Framework,” Fall Seminar Series, Program in Higher Education, Boston
College, Lynch School of Education, November 2001.
“Not Just a Modern Technique: Two Centuries
of Women’s Networking in American Higher Education,” keynote speaker at fall
meeting of the American Council on Education, National Network of Women Leaders
(ACE NNWL) (Massachusetts chapter), Brandeis University, October 2001.
“Advocacy,
Research, and Service for Women: The Pioneering Origins of the Center for the
Education of Women,” presentation as Jean Campbell Visiting Scholar, University
of Michigan, Center for the Education of Women, February 2001.
“Reflections of a Historical Lexicographer:
Lives, Leadership, and Educational Change for American Women,” keynote, History
of Education Society (UK), Birmingham, England, November 2000.
“Breaking Boundaries: The Origins of
Single-Sex Education for Girls and Women,” presenter, Old South Meeting House,
Boston, MA, April 1999.
"In the Beginning," Panelist at Forum for 35th
Anniversary of the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA, May
1997.
"Transcending Boundaries: Women, Power, and Leadership," invited speaker, Centennial Symposium, Brown University, Providence, RI, October 1991.
"Models for the Organization of American Research Centers," invited speaker, Women's Studies in the Soviet Union, conference sponsored by University of Wisconsin System/Johnson Foundation, Racine, WI, October 1991.
"Women and Science," presentation for the National Council for Research on Women annual meeting, Washington, D.C., June 1991.
Chair and Discussant, “Education and Cold War Culture,”
panel presentation, annual meeting of the American Educational Research
Association (AERA), Chicago, April 2003.
Chair, “The Enemy Within: A Post-September 11 Conversation About Academic Freedom in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” Presidential Invited Session at annual meeting of AERA, Chicago, April 2003.
Chair,
“The G.I. Bill and Higher Education after World War II: A Universal Right?”,
panel presentation, annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians
(OAH), Memphis, TN, April 2003.
Discussant, “American Higher Education from World War I to the Cold War,” annual meeting of the History of Education Society (HES), Pittsburgh, October 2002.
Chair, “Twentieth-Century Philanthropy: Administering, Asking, Receiving,” annual meeting of HES, Pittsburgh, October 2002.
Discussant, “Higher Education in the
1960s: Crossroads Between Protest and Policy,” annual meeting of AERA, Seattle,
April 2001.
Discussant, “Leadership in Higher Education: Navigating Race and Gender,” AERA annual meeting, Seattle, April 2001.
Discussant, “Women Faculty: Authority, Assessment, and Institutional Structure,” annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Sacramento, November 2000.
Discussant, “When What was Central is Pushed to the Margins,” ASHE annual meeting, Sacramento, November 2000.
Chair, “Different Histories: New Issues in the Multicultural History of Education,” annual meeting of HES, San Antonio, October 2000.
Presenter, “Publishing in the History of Education: Editorial Policies and Practices,” panel at the annual meeting of the History of Education Society (HES), Atlanta, October 1999.
Chair, “Education Books of the Century Project,” roundtable at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Montreal, Canada, April 1999.
Chair, "Beyond Patriarchy: The Journeys of Female College Students," panel at Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) annual meeting, Miami, November 1998.
Moderator, "New Perspectives on the Historiography of Teacher Education," panel at HES annual meeting, Chicago, October 1998.
Chair/Discussant, "Historical Perspectives on the Relationship Between Education Planning and Practice," panel at HES annual meeting, Chicago, October 1998.
Discussant, "Life at the Margins of Possibility: Identity Politics in Four Settings," panel at HES annual meeting, Chicago, October 1998.
Discussant, "Access, Equity, and Transformation: Women and Higher Education," panel at American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Chicago, IL, March 1997.
Discussant, "Women Academics and Higher Education," panel at History of Education Society (HES) annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 1996.
Discussant, "The Historical Legacy of Desegregation: Explorations of Federal, Local, and Judicial Activism," panel at AERA annual meeting, New York City, April 1996.
Chair, "Beating the Odds: How the Poor Get to College," book session by Arthur Levine and Jana Nidiffer, AERA annual meeting, New York City, April 1996.
Discussant, "Women, Higher Education, and Hunter College," panel at History of Education Society annual meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 1995.
Chair/discussant, "Shaping the Curriculum in a Gendered World: Constituency Influence in the History of Young Women's Education," panel at AERA annual meeting, San Francisco, April 1995.
Chair, "Women as School Superintendents: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives," panel at HES annual meeting, Chapel Hill, November 1994.
"Funding Opportunities for Black Women's Research," panel organizer and chair, Black Women in the Academy conference, Cambridge, MA, January 1994.
Chair and presenter, "Biography and Institutional Culture," AERA annual meeting, Chicago, April 1993.
Discussant, "Approaching Educational History from a Postmodern Consciousness," AERA annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 1993.
Chair, "Women Confronting
Education," AERA annual meeting, Chicago, April 1991.
Chair, "Women Winning Tenure: The 1990s and Beyond," workshop at Bunting Institute, Cambridge, Mass., November 1990.
Chair/Discussant, "Women in the Professions: Nursing and Teaching," HES annual meeting, Atlanta, Ga., November 1990.
Chair, "Mothers, Children, and the Politics of Survival in the 19th-Century American Family," Bunting Institute symposium, March 1990.
"Findings
from the General Education Project" Association of American Colleges
annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, January 1990.
Jean Campbell Visiting Scholar, University of
Michigan, Center for the Education of Women, 2000-2001 (with stipend).
Visiting Scholar, Harvard Graduate School of
Education, 2000-2001.
Junior Faculty Research Grant, UMass
Boston, 1998. Awarded for research
project on "Academic Women in the 1950s and 1960s: Early Institutional
Efforts at Gender Equity."
Junior Faculty Research Grant, UMass Boston,
1995. Awarded for editorial phase of Historical
Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States.
PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLARLY SERVICE
Current
President,
History of Education Society. Vice-Presidency, 2002 (included organizing
program for annual meeting, Evanston, IL).
Editorial Board, Journal of Higher
Education, 2002- .
Editorial Board, Journal of Educational
Administration and History [U.K.], 2002- .
Board of Reviewers, Historical Journal of
Massachusetts, 1994 -
Past Service
For the American Educational Research
Association (AERA): Vice-President, History and Historiography Division
(Division F), 2001-2003 (includes seat on Association Council); elected to seat
on 7-member Executive Board. Executive
Council, Division J (Postsecondary Education), 1998 -2000; Program Chair,
Division F (History and Historiography), 1996, Assistant Program Chair, 1995;
Program Committee, 2000, 1999, 1991; Chair, Evaluation Committee, 1999; liaison
to Committee on the Status of Women in Educational Research and Development,
1993-95; Nominating Committee, 1992; Young Scholars' Committee, 1991-92.
For the History of Education Society
(HES): Associate Editor, History of Education Quarterly, 1999-2003,
Editorial Board, 1996-98; Board of Directors, 1995-97. Program Committee, 2000,
1998, 1990; Nominations, 1990.
For the Association for the Study of
Higher Education (ASHE): Elected member of Board of Directors, 2001-2003;
Chair, ad hoc Committee on Conference Improvement, 2002; Program Chair, 2000.
Bunting Institute of Radcliffe
College/Harvard University, selection committee member and reviewer for
fellowships in Social Sciences and Education, 1995, 1997, 1998.
Freedom Support Act Fellowships, selection
committee member, 1995 and 1996.
(Reviewed applications and interviewed educators in Russia, Ukraine, and
Belarus for graduate fellowships in U.S.)
Other Service
Reviewer for tenure or promotion cases:
Claremont Graduate University; George Washington University; Teachers College,
Columbia University; University of South Carolina; and Lake Forest College
(1999-2002).
Faculty member (invited) for “Mentoring
Seminar,” History and Historiography Division, American Educational Research
Assocatiion, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003.
Proposal
reviewer: Spencer Foundation large grants competition, 1999, 1998; University
of British Columbia internal grants program, 1998.
Manuscript reviewer: Vanderbilt University
Press, 2003; Teachers College Press, 2002; Allyn & Bacon, 2002, 2001, 2000,
1998; Routledge Falmer Press, 2002, 2001; History of Education [U.K.],
2002; Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2000; Journal of General Education,
2002, 1999, 1998; Educational Foundations, 1998; SUNY Press, 1998, 1996;
Northeastern University Press, 1997; Journal of Women's History, 1997.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Department: department chair, 2001-02, 2000;
doctoral program director, 2001-02, 1998.
Personnel: tenure and promotion committees,
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003; College Personnel Committee, 2003 -; 999-2000.
Search Committees:
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Graduate College of Education Dean,
2002-03; 1998-99 (chair);1996-97.
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Graduate Studies Dean, 2002.
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Faculty, Department of Leadership in Education: 1999-2002 (chair); 1998-99,
1996-97 (chair); 1996-97; 1995-96.
College Senate: chair, 1997-2000; vice-chair,
1996-97; secretary, 1995-96.
Other committee service: Doctoral Program
Committees: 1994-2004; University Research Council, 1999-2000; Library
Committee, 19998-2000; Budget and Planning Committee, chair, (GCOE) 1996-97;
1996-98 (Faculty Council); Enrollment Management Council, 1995-1996.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Election Official, town of Lexington, MA,
2000- .
School Site Council, Jonas Clarke Middle
School, Lexington, Mass., 1996-2000.
Board of Directors, Harrington Extended Day
Program, Harrington Public School, Lexington, Mass., 1989-96 (President,
1991-93).
School Site Council, Harrington Public
School, Lexington, Mass., 1994-1996.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
History of Education Society
Organization of American Historians
American Historical Association
American Educational Research Association
Association for the Study of Higher Education
American Association for Higher Education
American Council on Education/ National
Network of Women Leaders (Massachusetts chapter)