SUSAN DOUGLAS FRANZOSA Professor and Dean of Education at Fairfield University, Fairfield CT, Susan Douglas Franzosa now serves as immediate past president of the American Educational Studies Association. A past Associate Editor of NWSA Journal with a long history of participation in Women's Studies and leadership on campus women's issues,she was involved in early development of Summer Institutes on women's studies across the curriculum for school teachers, funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities. She edited Ordinary Lessons: Girlhoods of the 1950's, to which all founders of the Society for Educating Women contributed. With Karen Mazza she co-authored Integrating Women's Studies into the Curriculum: An Annotated Bibliography; also, she authored Civic Education: Its Limits and Conditions. She is currently at work on an educating woman's biography. Dean Franzosa is 2009 Conference Chair of the Society for Educating Women. Contact: sfranzosa@mail.fairfield.edu. |
SUSAN LAIRD Recent past president of the Philosophy of Education Society and contributor to Philosophy of Education yearbooks and other journals, anthologies, and encyclopedias over the past two decades, Susan Laird edited Philosophy of Education 1997 and authored Mary Wollstonecraft: Philosophical Mother of Coeducation, volume 15 of the Continuum Library of Educational Thought (2008). Thought on coeducation continues to be the focus of her philosophical-historical inquiry. Recently honored for her teaching/advising, she is Professor of Educational Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, and Human Relations at the University of Oklahoma, where she now also serves as founding faculty adviser of the Oklahoma Educational Studies Association (affiliated with the American Educational Studies Association) and the Oklahoma Mothers & Educators Collaborative (working for a more family-friendly campus), both led by graduate students. While theorizing an educational life-practice of "befriending girls," she founded and advised a Campus Girl Scouts group with whom she led a racially and sexually diverse Girl Scout troop of economically challenged teens. Active in the Ithaca Feminist Education Coalition as a public-high-school English teacher in the early 1980s, she participated in founding the National Women's Studies Association's PreK-12 Caucus. Prof. Laird administers online development of the Society for Educating Women, including its forthcoming journal, Educating Women.
Contact: laird@ou.edu.
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President-elect of the International Society of Educational Biography and executive director of the Country Schools Association of America, Lucy Townsend is also curator of the Blackwell History of Education Museum at Northern Illinois University, where she is Professor of Educational Foundations. She has served as president of the Midwest History of Education Society (now known as the Organization of Educational Historians), secretary of the American Educational Studies Association, and co-editor of Vitae Scholasticae. Project Director of the Emma Willard Papers, she and Barbara Wiley published The Emma Willard Papers, 1787-1870 (2004), a microform collection of some 15,000 pages of documents and texts, as well as a 64-page guide (2005). She has published a biography of the founder of Rockford College (The Best Helpers of One Another, 1988) and edited with Gaby Weiner, Women: A Global Perspective (2002). She and Weiner have just completed Deconstructing and Reconstructing Lives: Using Auto/Biography in Educational Settings, to be published by Althouse Press, University of Western Ontario (2009). She is currently researching the lives of the first two hundred women to earn the American doctorate. Having served as 2008 Conference Chair of the Society for Educating Women, Prof. Townsend is now editing special issues of Vitae Scholasticae and Educational Studies that will feature selected articles from that inaugural conference. |
Updated JH 7/3/2009