Publications
"'They Turned a School Into a Jungle!': How The Blackboard Jungle Redefined the Education Crisis in Postwar America," article forthcoming in Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Spring 2009.
"We Are What We Teach: American Studies in the K-16 Classroom," American Quarterly 60:2 (June 2008): 443-454.
“Lessons From the Blackboard Jungle,” Education Week, 25:4 (21 September 2005): 39-40.
Reprinted as “Misunderstood Youth,” Teacher Magazine 17:3 (1 November 2005): 40-42.
"Solving the Dewey Problem." Review of Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett, Dewey’s Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Reform, H-Childhood, H-Net Reviews, December 2007.
"The OTHER Other Fifties." Review of Alison J. Clarke, Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America, H-Amstdy, H-Net Reviews, January 2003.
“National Defense Education Act of 1958,” “Life Adjustment Movement,” and “Committee on Education Beyond the High School (Eisenhower).” The Greenwood Dictionary of Education. Ed. John Collins and Nancy O'Brien. Greenwood Press, 2003.
“James Weldon Johnson” and “X-Games.” St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Ed. Tom and Sara Pendergast. 5 Vols. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 2000.
Current Research
"'Danger! They're After Our Schools!': Education, Culture, and Politics in Postwar Pasadena," article manuscript in progress.
