Research and Teaching Interests: History of American Education; American Urban History (especially material culture); Oral History; Family History; Course Portfolios and the Scholarship of Teacing and Learning.

Personal Statement: My research and teaching interests focus on the relationship between education and American culture. I have explored this relationship by studying the history of the school, the family, and the material culture of education. I have taught an introductory graduate course in American history, a graduate course on the history of the family, using oral history as the principal research methodology, and a general research seminar in American history. I have taught most recently courses on the history of urban edcuation, the history of childhood and adolescence and a graduate course on the teaching of history in college. I am working on a new general education course on the role of higher education in American society.

My recent research includes the history of the home-school relationship in America since the middle of the nineteenth century and the material culture of American education, stressing school design, public buildings, and civic art. I am currently beginning a new project on the history the history of thbe Elementary and Secondary Education Act in urban school districts.  I also work on projects having to do with the scholarship of teaching and learning, which I have done in cooperation with the American Association for Higher Education, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the American Historical Association.

William W. Cutler

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