Jeff Snyder

JEFFREY AARON SNYDER, Ph.D.
Carleton College
Department of Educational Studies
One North College Street
Northfield, MN 55057
jsnyder@carleton.edu

Ph.D., History of Education, 2011

Dissertation: Race, Nation and Education: Black History During Jim Crow

Adviser: Dr. Jonathan Zimmerman

Harvard University

Ed.M., Learning and Teaching, 2004

Carleton College

B.A., Psychology, magna cum laude, 1997

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

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Curriculum Development Fund Grant (with Anita Chikkatur, Introduction to Educational Studies course redesign), Carleton College, Summer 2015

Curriculum Development Fund Grant (new Argument and Inquiry seminar, Will This Be On The Test? Standardized Testing and American Education), Carleton College, Summer 2013

Humanities Center Student Research Assistant Grant, Carleton College, Winter 2012

Carter G. Woodson Fellowship, Emory University Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, 2009-10

Dean’s Grant for Student Research, New York University, 2009-10

Founders Fellowship, New York University, 2007-10

Dean’s Fellowship Award, Harvard University, 2004-5

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy Fellowship, 2004-5

Teaching

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Carleton College, Assistant Professor

• Will This Be on the Test? Standardized Testing and American Education (EDUC 100)
• Introduction to Educational Studies (EDUC 110)
• History of American School Reform (EDUC 245)
• Fixing Schools: Politics and Policy in American Education (EDUC 250)
• Multicultural Education (EDUC 338)

Loyola University Maryland, Instructor

• Teacher Research and Inquiry, Fall 2011

Ball State University, Online Instructor

• History of American Education, Spring and Fall 2010, Summer 2011

New York University, Instructor

• History of Education in the United States, Fall 2008
• Inquiries into Teaching and Learning, Fall 2007 and Spring 2008

Harvard University, Head Teaching Fellow

• History of American Education, Fall 2006

            Beijing, China, Tsinghua University, Summer 2004  

            Boston, MA, Jewish Vocational Services, 2001-3

            Dharamsala, India, Volunteer Teacher, Winter 2001

            Montpellier, France, ACB Langues et Traduction, 1999-2000

            Prague, Czech Republic, Budejovicka High School; OK Centrum Language School; and
            Charles University, 1997-99

Research Assistant to Professor Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Harvard University, 2005-6

Research Consultant, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, 2005-6

Making Black History: Race, Culture and the Color Line in the Age of Jim Crow

Under contract with University of Georgia Press. 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

"Teaching 'Grit' is All the Rage: Here's What's Wrong With It," New Republic, May 6, 2014.

“The King Memorial Fails to Capture the Spirit of the Man and the Movement,” History News Network, October 20, 2011. 

“The Paradox of Race: Lessons from the Smithsonian,” Teachers College Record, October 7, 2011.

“A Brief History of the Syllabus,” Harvard University Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, 2006.

Essay Book Reviews

A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars by Andrew Hartman, New Republic, April 23, 2015.

The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America by Lani Guinier, Boston Review, January 13, 2015. 

The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools by Christopher and Sarah Lubienski, Boston Review, December 5, 2013.  Syndicated in Business Insider, December 9, 2013.

The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America by James Patterson, History News Network, May 8, 2013. 

Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation by Jonathan Rieder, New Republic, April 19, 2013.

Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education by Mike Rose, Education Review, April 15, 2013. 

Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America by William McKee Evans, Callaloo 34, no.1 (Winter 2011): 214-6.

American Education: A History by Wayne J. Urban and Jennings L. Wagoner, Jr., Education Review, September 9, 2009.

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Vol. 17): Education by Clarence L. Mohr (ed.), Louisiana History Journal 55, no.1 (Winter 2014): 123-25.

A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America by Stephen G. Hall, Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 37, no.1 (January 2013): 179-81.  

Critical Rhetorics of Race by Michael Lacy and Kent Ono (eds.), Teachers College Record, January 10, 2012.

In Search of the Talented Tenth: Howard University Public Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race, 1926-1970 by Zachery R. Williams, Journal of American Studies 44, no.3 (2010): E57. 

Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane and Vanderbilt by Melissa Kean, History of Education Quarterly 50, no.3 (August 2010): 406-8.

The Cost of Unity: African-American Agency and Education in the Christian Church, 1865-1914 by Lawrence A.Q. Burnley, Journal of African American History 95, no.1 (Winter 2010): 106-8.

The New Negro Goes to School: Black History and the Negro Renaissance
Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Convention, Raleigh, September 2010

The New Negro Goes to School: Black History and the Harlem Renaissance                                 
Organization of American Historians Annual Convention, Washington, DC, April 2010

The Dilemmas of Segregation: African American Scholars Debate Negro Education During the New Deal
History of Education Society Annual Convention, Philadelphia, October 2009

“Color, the Unfinished Business of Democracy”: Howard University Scholars on Black History, Race and Citizenship, 1942-1954
Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Convention, Cincinnati, October 2009

Teachers and Teaching in the United States: A Historical Overview 
Invited Lecture, New York University, February 2009

Defining Diversity, Requiring Diversity: The Origins of a Diversity Course Requirement at University of Massachusetts Boston, 1989-1991
Harvard Graduate School of Education Student Research Conference, February 2006

Before and After: Addressing the Issue of Students’ Prior Knowledge
Workshop, Harvard University Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Fall Teaching Conference, September 2005

Focusing on the Learner
Workshop, Harvard University Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Winter Teaching Conference, February 2005

In the Media

Rachel Cohen, "Teaching Character: Grit, Privilege and American Education's Obsession with Novelty," American Prospect, April 17, 2015.

“Should Schools Teach Personality?” Anna North, New York Times, January 10, 2015.

Grammar Revolution, documentary film by David and Elizabeth O’Brien, 2014. 

Professional Memberships     

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American Educational Research Association

Association for the Study of African American Life and History

History of Education Society

Organization of American Historians

 

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