- Professor of American History, Western Washington University
My scholarship has emphasized the political and intellectual history of the early American republic. I have also written extensively about contemporary education reform at the K12 and higher levels.
I am author of three books:
1. What's the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform (2019);
2. Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (2017); and
3. Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts (2008).
Experience
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–presentProfessor of American History, Western Washington University
Education
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2004University of Virginia, PhD History
Publications
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2019What's the Point of College? Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform, Johns Hopkins U Press
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2017Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America, Johns Hopkins U Press
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2008Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts, Harvard University Press
