Charles Dorn

Associate Professor of Education

Fall 2009

  • The Educational Crusade (EDUC 020)
  • Curriculum (EDUC 303)
Phone (207) 798-4145
Title Associate Professor
Department EDUCATION
2nd Title Chair
2nd Department EDUCATION
Work Location 208 Riley House
E-Mail cdorn@bowdoin.edu
Charles Dorn

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:

“American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War.” Amherst College. Amherst, Massachusetts. March 11, 2009.

“‘The World's Schoolmaster’: The American Origins of UNESCO.” United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. November 17, 2005. Paris, France.

“Evaluating Democracy: The 1946 U.S. Education Mission to Germany.” San Francisco Bay Area Evaluators Association. September 21, 2005. San Francisco, CA.

Recent Conference/Symposia Presentations:

“From ‘Learned Professions’ to ‘Lucrative Professions’: The Civic Functions of Higher Education in America.” Paper presented at the History of Education Society annual meeting. November 6-9, 2008. St. Petersburg, FL.

“Institutional Adaptation: UNESCO, the World Bank and American Foreign Policy During the Cold War.” Paper presented at the International American Studies annual meeting. October 8-10, 2008. Istanbul, Turkey.

“‘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 American Educational Research Association annual meeting 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.

“Democratic Minds, Democratic States: Educational Reconstruction and the Founding of UNESCO.” Paper presented at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting as part of the symposium, “Educational Imperialism in the American Century.” April 19-22, 2006. Washington, DC.

Publications:

Recent Publications

American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

"'A Woman's World': The University of California, Berkeley, During the Second World War." History of Education Quarterly, 48, no. 4 (2008).

"'Treason in the Textbooks': Reinterpreting the Harold Rugg Textbook Controversy in the Context of Schooling During World War II." Paedagogica Historica, 44, no. 4 (2008): 457-479.

"'The World's Schoolmaster': Educational Reconstruction, Grayson Kefauver, and the Founding of UNESCO, 1942-1946." History of Education, 35, no. 3 (2006): 297-320.

"'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.

"Promoting the 'Public Welfare' in Wartime: Stanford University During World War II." American Journal of Education, 112, no. 1 (2005): 103-128.

"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.

Awards, Grants, Fellowships and Invited Seminars

  • Faculty Research Award.  Bowdoin College Faculty Development Committee, 2008-2009.
  • The Aspen Institute Wye Faculty Seminar on Citizenship and the American Polity, 2008.
  • Seeking the Common Good Grant.  Bowdoin College, Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs, 2007-2008.
  • Sydney B. Karofsky Prize for Junior Faculty (for distinction in teaching).  Bowdoin College, 2006-2007.
  • Fletcher Family Research Grant.  Bowdoin College Faculty Resources Committee, 2006-2007.
  • Faculty Leave Fellowship. Bowdoin College Faculty Resources Committee, 2006-2007.
  • Fletcher Family Research Grant.  Bowdoin College Faculty Resources Committee, 2005-2006.
  • Fund for Course Development Grant. Bowdoin College Faculty Resources Committee, 2004-2005.
  • Fletcher Family Research Grant.  Bowdoin College Faculty Resources Committee, 2003-2004.