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College of Education
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

• Ph.D., Educational Policy Studies (History of Education), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996
• M.A., Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993
• B.A., History, Carleton College, 1987

• Social Foundations of Education
• Higher Education

Faculty:

• University of Iowa, 1999-present
• University of South Florida, 1996-1999

Other:

• Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow, 1998-1999
• Assistant Dean of Admissions/Admissions Counselor, Carleton College, 1987-1990

• History of Education Society
  History of Education Quarterly editorial board, 2000-2003

• American Educational Research Association, Divisions F (history) and J (higher education)
  Program Chair, Division F, 2003 annual meeting
  Secretary, Division F, 2008-

• Association for the Study of Higher Education

• Social Science History Association

Select Publications

Ogren, C. (2005).  The American State Normal School:  "An Instrument of Great Good".  New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Orgen, C. (in press). Sites, Students, Scholarship, and Structures: The Historiography of American Higher Education in the Post-Revisionist Era. In Reese, W., & Rury, J. (Eds). Rethinking the History of American Education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Orgen, C. (2007). “Precocious knowledge of everything”: New interpretations of women’s higher schooling in the U.S. in the late-18 th and early-19 th centuries. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 39:4, 491-502.

Ogren C. (2003).  Rethinking the 'nontraditional' student from a historical perspective:  State normal schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  The Journal of Higher Education, 74 (Nov./Dec.), 640-664.

Ogren, C. (2006). Teacher education and normal schools. In Cayton, A. R. L., Sisson, R., & Zacher, C. (Eds.). The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Ogren, C. (2002). "Betrothed to the State"? Nineteenth-Century Academies Confront the Rise of thee State Normal Schools. In Beadie, N. & Tolley, K. (Eds.). Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, p. 284-303.

Ogren, C. (2000). 'A large measure of self-control and personal power': Women students at state normal schools in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Women's Studies Quarterly, 27 (Fall/Winter), 211-232.

Ogren, C. (1997, 1995). "Where Coeds Were Coeducated: Normal Schools in Wisconsin, 1870-1920," History of Education Quarterly 35 (Spring 1995): 1-26. (Reprinted in: The History of Higher Education, Second Edition, eds. Lester F. Goodchild and Harold Wechsler. ASHE Reader Series, Simon & Schuster, 1997; and Educational Equity, ed. Karen Maschke. Volume IV of Gender and American Law, Garland Publishing, 1997.)

Orgen, C. (2006). Book review: The trouble with Ed Schools, by David F. Labaree, in History of Education Quarterly 46 (fall), 452-455.

I am a historian of education. I am most broadly interested in the history of higher education, women's education (k-12 and higher) and teacher education in the United States. First and foremost, my research leads to new understandings of the history of educational institutions and types of students who have traditionally been under-represented in the history-of-education literature. Specifically, I have examined state normal schools in the U.S. and the experiences of their students. Two important strands of my analysis of normal schools, gender and institutional status issues will underlie much of my future research. Upcoming projects include an investigation of the work lives of normal-school faculty, research on the simplified-spelling movement of the progressive era, and collaborative work with Bruce Fehn on Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin (1927-1932).

• 07B:100 Issues and Policies in Higher Education
• 07B:102 History of American Education
• 07B:220 History and Philosophy of Post-Secondary Education
• 07B:240 Topics in Education: The History of Teaching in the U.S.
• 07B:240 Topics in Education: The History of Women's Education in the U.S.
• 07B:240 Topics in Education: The History of School Leadership in the U.S.