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Rethinking Campus Life

New Perspectives on the History of College Students in the United States

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Editors:
  1. Christine A. Ogren

    1. Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

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  2. Marc A. VanOverbeke

    1. College of Education University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

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  • Examines the historiography of American college students and the extracurriculum in the thirty years since the publication of Helen Horowitz’s Campus Life
  • Explores college student life among latino and LBGTQ communities as well as African American students at HBCUs and PWIs from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries
  • Outlines common themes and strands in campus life across chronological periods, diverse student groups, and institutional types, and discusses how the collection refines, challenges, expands, and/or critiques Horowitz’s work.

Part of the book series: Historical Studies in Education (HSE)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Rethinking Campus Life

    • Christine A. Ogren, Marc A. VanOverbeke
    Pages 1-10

  3. Trends in the Historiography of American College Student Life: Populations, Organizations, and Behaviors

    • Michael S. Hevel, Heidi A. Jaeckle
    Pages 11-36

  4. “We Are Not So Easily to Be Overcome”: Fraternities on the American College Campus

    • Nicholas L. Syrett
    Pages 37-60

  5. “Mattie Matix” and Prodigal Princes: A Brief History of Drag on College Campuses from the Nineteenth Century to the 1940s

    • Margaret A. Nash, Danielle C. Mireles, Amanda Scott-Williams
    Pages 61-90

  6. “Enthusiasm and Mutual Confidence”: Campus Life at State Normal Schools, 1870s–1900s

    • Christine A. Ogren
    Pages 91-114

  7. Instruction in Living Beautifully: Social Education and Heterosocializing in White College Sororities

    • Margaret L. Freeman
    Pages 115-139

  8. The Mexican American Movement

    • Christopher Tudico
    Pages 141-163

  9. Student Activists and Organized Labor

    • Timothy Reese Cain
    Pages 165-190

  10. New Voices, New Perspectives: Studying the History of Student Life at Community Colleges

    • Nicholas M. Strohl
    Pages 191-212

  11. Activism, Athletics, and Student Life at State Colleges in the 1950s and 1960s

    • Marc A. VanOverbeke
    Pages 213-235

  12. Campus Life for Southern Black Students in the Mid-Twentieth Century

    • Joy Ann Williamson-Lott
    Pages 237-259

  13. Higher (Power) Education: Student Life in Evangelical Institutions

    • Adam Laats
    Pages 261-281

  14. Conclusion: New Perspectives on Campus Life and Setting the Agenda for Future Research

    • Christine A. Ogren, Marc A. VanOverbeke
    Pages 283-296

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 297-311
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About this book

This edited volume explores the history of student life throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  Chapter authors examine the expanding reach of scholarship on the history of college students; the history of underrepresented students, including black, Latino, and LGBTQ students; and student life at state normal schools and their successors, regional colleges and universities, and at community colleges and evangelical institutions.  The book also includes research on drag and gender and on student labor activism, and offers new interpretations of fraternity and sorority life.  Collectively, these chapters deepen scholarly understanding of students, the diversity of their experiences at an array of institutions, and the campus lives they built.

Reviews

“The book title, Rethinking Campus Life, is both specific and referential. The essays offer a literal rethinking of traditionally told tales of college student life … the volume is both a rethinking of an older frame from the past and an introduction to new work in the future. It is a comprehensive and forward-thinking volume.” (Kate Rousmaniere, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 59 (2), May, 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Christine A. Ogren

  • College of Education University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Marc A. VanOverbeke

About the editors

Christine A. Ogren is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies at the University of Iowa, USA.


Marc A. VanOverbeke is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rethinking Campus Life

  • Book Subtitle: New Perspectives on the History of College Students in the United States

  • Editors: Christine A. Ogren, Marc A. VanOverbeke

  • Series Title: Historical Studies in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75614-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75613-4Published: 31 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09278-8Published: 15 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75614-1Published: 19 July 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2945-7173

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-7181

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 311

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Education, Higher Education, Sociology of Education

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