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Space and Place Affinity Group Pre-Conference Zoom Session
The Space & Place Affinity Group will be holding its pre-conference Zoom session on Oct 26, from 6:30 to 8 PM EST (3:30-5 pacific time). The session is titled "Race, Space, Place and Education in the 20th Century: Chicago and Kansas City." It will feature...
Educational Foundations Position at Denison University
The Department of Education at Denison University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, beginning August 2022. Candidates are required to have by start date a Ph.D. (or Ed.D.) in Education. We seek candidates...
SHOES 50th Anniversary Retrospective Panel
Expert Needed for Project on High School History
Carol Lloyd, VP Editorial Director for GreatSchools, a nonprofit providing resources to parents and communities to improve children's learning, is overseeing a 2-year project that involves the creation and distribution of information for parents about high school...
Alison Prentice, In Memoriam
Professor Alison Prentice died on June 25 in Victoria, BC. A longstanding professor of history of education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto, Prentice wrote extensively on the history of education and gender in Canada and...
2021 Barnard Prize Call for Nominations
Call for Nominations: The 2021 Henry Barnard Prize The History of Education Society awards a prize of $500 biennially for the best graduate student essay in the history of education, broadly defined to cover a wide range of educational and cultural institutions...
LGBTQ+ Histories of Education Call
Inviting New Work in LGBTQ+ Histories of Education We invite scholars to submit new work in LGBTQ+ Histories of Education for a special issue of Historia y Memoria de la Educación (http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/HMe), the online journal of the Spanish Society for...
History and Policy Conversation with Larry Cuban, Oct. 8
Pre-Conference Affinity Group Meetings for HES 2020
From Vice President Chris Span: HES Membership, I am so excited about the forthcoming virtual conference November 5-8. Together, we will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the History of Education Society. I look forward to meeting and greeting all of you. Very soon...
Bernard Bailyn Dies at 97
Bernard Bailyn, whose 1960 book Education in the Forming of American Society exerted powerful and lasting influence on the discipline of history of education and whose mentorship of several generations of graduate students continues to shape the field, died earlier...