Charles Dorn
Assistant Professor of Education, Chair of Education Department
Spring 2008
- The Educational Crusade (EDUC 020)
- Intermediate Independent Study in Education (EDUC 291)
- The Civic Functions of Higher Education in America (EDUC 310)
| Phone | (207) 798-4145 |
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Department | EDUCATION |
| 2nd Title | Chair |
| 2nd Department | EDUCATION |
| Work Location | 111 Kanbar Hall |
| cdorn@bowdoin.edu |
Research Interests:
Professor Dorn's research into the history of education investigates the civic functions adopted by and ascribed to centers of early childhood education, public elementary and secondary schools, and colleges and universities in the United States.
Education:
Ph.D. 2003 University of California, Berkeley
School of Education, Berkeley, CA
M.A. 1994 Stanford University
School of Education, Stanford, CA
B.A. 1990 The George Washington University
Major: American Studies, Washington, DC
Invited Talks:
"'The World's Schoolmaster': The American Origins of UNESCO." United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization symposium covened to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of UNESCO. November 16-18, 2005. Paris, France.
"Evaluating Democracy: The 1946 U.S. Education Mission to Germany." San Francisco Bay Area Evaluators Association meeting, as part of the series "Evaluating Democracy Building: Connecting Education, Culture, and Sovereignty." September 21, 2005. San Francisco, California.
Recent Conference/Symposia Presentations:
"'Treason in the Textbooks': Reinterpreting the Harold Rugg Textbook Controversy in the Context of Schooling During Wartime." Paper presented at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting as part of the symposium, "Mobilization and Progressive Education in the U.S. during World War II." October 25-28, 2007. Cleveland, OH.
"'Look to the Bulwarks of Democracy': Nursery Schooling During the Second World War." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association as part of the symposium, "Democracy, Schooling, and the Changing Roles of Women in Wartime America." April 9-13, 2007. Chicago, IL.
"Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century." Paper presented at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting as part of the symposium, "From 'Innocents Abroad' to the Power of Innocents: Perspectives on Missionary Education, Development Policy, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." October 26-29, 2006. Ottawa, Canada.
"Education and Nation-Building." Session Chair, History of Education Society Annual Meeting. October 26-29, 2006. Ottawa, Canada.
"Democratic Minds, Democratic States: Educational Reconstruction and the Founding of UNESCO." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians as part of the symposium, "Educational Imperialism in the American Century." April 19-22, 2006. Washington, D.C.
Publications:
Books
Dorn, Charles. American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Refereed Publications
Dorn, Charles. "'Treason in the Textbooks': Reinterpreting the Harold Rugg Textbook Controversy in the Context of Schooling During World War II." Paedagogica Historica, forthcoming.
Dorn, Charles. "'A Woman's World': The University of California, Berkeley, During the Second World War." History of Education Quarterly, 48, no. 4, forthcoming.
Dorn, Charles. "'The World's Schoolmaster': Educational Reconstruction, Grayson Kefauver, and the Founding of UNESCO, 1942-1946." History of Education, 35, no. 3 (2006): 297-320.
Dorn, Charles. "'I Had All Kinds of Kids in My Classes, and It Was Fine': Public Schooling in Richmond, California, During World War II." History of Education Quarterly, 45, no. 4 (2005): 538-564.
Dorn, Charles. "Promoting the 'Public Welfare' in Wartime: Stanford University During World War II." American Journal of Education, 112, no. 1 (2005): 103-128.
Dorn, Charles. "Evaluating Democracy: The 1946 U.S. Education Mission to Germany." American Journal of Evaluation, 26, no. 2 (2005): 267-277.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Dorn, Charles and Brian Puaca. "'The Appeal to the German Mind': Educational Reconstruction in the American Zone of Occupation, 1944-1948." In Noah Sobe, ed. By the Dawn's Early Light: American Post-Conflict Educational Reconstruction from the Spanish-American War to Iraq, forthcoming.
Book Reviews
Dorn, Charles. "Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century." History of Education Quarterly, 47, no. 4 (2007): forthcoming.
Dorn, Charles. "The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s." History of Education Quarterly, 44, no. 3 (2004): 457-459.
Dorn, Charles. "Learning to Divide the World." Educational Studies, 31, no. 3 (2000): 312-317.
Encyclopedia Entries
Dorn, Charles. "Victory Gardens." In The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, and Canada in World Wars I and II, James Ciment, ed., Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006.
Dorn, Charles. "Horace Mann Bond." In Greenwood Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration, Steven A. Reich, ed. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006.
Dorn, Charles. "Grammar School." In Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society, edited by Paula S. Fass. New York: MacMillan Reference USA, 2004.
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships:
Sydney B. Karofsky Prize for Junior Faculty (for distinction in teaching), Bowdoin College, 2007.
Fletcher Family Research Grant. Bowdoin College Faculty Resources Committee, October 2006.
Faculty Leave Fellowship. Bowdoin College Faculty Resources Committee, February 2006.
Fletcher Family Research Grant. Bowdoin College Faculty Resources Committee, October 2005.
Fund for Course Development Grant. Bowdoin College Faculty Resources Committee, May 2004.
Fletcher Family Research Grant. Bowdoin College Faculty Resources Committee, October 2003.
Graduate Scholarship, 2002-2003. University of California, Berkeley.
Michaelis Fellowship, 2001-2002. University of California, Berkeley.
Spencer Research Training Fellowship, 2000-2001.
University Fellowship, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001. University of California, Berkeley.