Past Henry Barnard Prize Winners
2021
Ashley Dennis, “‘The Intellectual Emancipation of the Negro’: Madeline Morgan and the Mandatory Black History Curriculum in Chicago during World War II.”
2019
Mark Balmforth, “A Nation of Ink and Paint: Map Drawing and Geographic Pedagogy in the American Ceylon Mission”
2017
Christina Groeger, “A ‘Good Mixer’: University Placement in Corporate America”
2015
Rowan Steineker, “‘Fully Equal to that of Any Child’: Experimental Creek Education in the Antebellum Era”
2013
Kenneth Noble, “’A More Meaningful Democracy than We Ourselves Possess’: Charles S. Johnson and the Education Mission to Japan, 1945-1952”
2011
Rita Koganzon, “Producing a Reconciliation of Disinterestedness and Commerce: The Political Rhetoric of Education in the Early Republic”
2009
Sarah Manekin, “Markets, Maneuvering, and the Expansion of Women’s Education at the University of Pennsylvania, 1913-1940”
2007
Paul Ramsey, “In the Region of Babel: Public Bilingual Schooling in the MIdwest, 1840s-1880s”
2005
Karen Leroux, “Lady Teachers and the Genteel Roots of Teacher Organization in Gilded Age Cities”
2003
Jonna Perrillo, “Beyond ‘Progressive’ Reform: Bodies, Discipline, and Construction of the ‘Professional Teacher’ in Interwar America”
2001
Michael Fuquay, “Civil Rights and the Private School Movement in Mississippi”