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James D. Anderson
Anderson’s scholarship focuses broadly on the history of U.S. education, with specializations in the history of African-American education in the South, the history of higher education desegregation, the history of public school desegregation, and the history of African-American school achievement in the 20th century. His book, “The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935,” won the American Educational Research Association outstanding book award in 1990. He is senior editor of the History of Education Quarterly. Anderson has served as an expert witness in a series of federal desegregation and affirmative action cases. He served as an adviser for and participant in the PBS documentaries “School: ‘The Story of American Public Education,” “The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow,” “Forgotten Genius: The Percy Julian Story” and “Tell Them That We Are Rising: The Story of Black 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址s and Universities.” He was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2008.
In 2012, Anderson was selected as a Fellow for Outstanding Research by the American Educational Research Association, and that same year, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址s for Teacher Education. In 2013, he was selected Center for Advanced Study Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois. Anderson earned a B.A in sociology from Stillman 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 (1966), and he holds an M.Ed. in history and social studies education (1969), as well as a Ph.D. in history of education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1973).
William M. Tuttle Jr.
Tuttle has taught in American studies, history, and African and African-American studies, offering the first courses at the University of Kansas in African-American history and post-World War II American history. His course on recent America was legendary for attracting the very best seniors at KU. In 2007, he taught at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, holding the John Adams Distinguished Fulbright Chair. He also has lectured in Cuba and Japan.
Tuttle has written seminal work in African-American history, labor history, the history of childhood, and recent American history that has influenced scholars and students around the world. As a pioneer in history from the bottom up, he produced the classic books: “Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919” and “Daddy’s Gone to War: The Second World War in the Lives of America’s Children,” and he co-edited “Plain Folk: The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans.” Through seven editions of the co-authored “A People and a Nation,” Tuttle reached millions of students. His scholarly articles have been reprinted frequently and widely cited. In addition to his B.A. in history from 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 ######### (1959), Tuttle earned his M.A. in history (1964) and Ph.D. in history (1967) from the University of Wisconsin. Tuttle was honored by 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 ######### with its prestigious Alumni Citation in 1995.
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