Paul Mattingly

Professor Emeritus

Education

University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. 1968

Areas of Research/Interest

Suburbanization and urbanization; community formation; education; public history.

Publications

  • An American Art Colony
    (London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2019)
    And American Art Colony
  • The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in the Nineteenth Century
    (New York: New York University Press, l975)
    classless profession
  • Education and Social Change: Themes from Ontario's Past
    Co-Editor with Michael B. Katz
    (New York: New York University Press, l975)
  • “Schools and the Means of Education Shall Forever Be Encouraged”: A History of Education in the Old Northwest, 1787-1880
    Co-Editor with Edward W. Stephens
    (Athens: Ohio University Libraries, 1987)
  • Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a Metropolitan Community
    Winner of 2002 Citation of American State and Local History Association
    (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)
    suburban landscape
  • American Academic Cultures: A History of Higher Education
    (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017)
    american academic cultures

Select Articles

"Useful History and Black Identity," History of Education Quarterly, l0, no. 4 (Winter l970): 338-50.

"Educational Revivals in Ante-Bellum New England," History of Education Quarterly, 11, no. 1 (Spring l97l): 39-7l.

"Urban Education and Collective Scholarship," in Diane Ravitch and Ronald Goodenow (Eds.), Educating an Urban People: The New York City Experience (New York: Teachers College Press, l98l): 23l-39.

"Academia and Professional School Careers, l840-l900," Teachers College Record, 83, no. 2 (Winter l98l): 2l9-33.

"Structures Over Time: Institutional History," in Historical Inquiry in Education: A Research Agenda. Edited by John Hardin Best (Washington, D.C., American Educational Research Association Publications, l983), pp. 34-55.

"Deafness and American Social Reform," in The Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness, 4 vols. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, l986)

"Workplace Autonomy and the Reforming of Teacher Education," in Critical Studies in Teacher Education: Its Folklore, Theory and Practice, edited by Thos. Popkewitz (London: Falmer Press, 1987),pp. 36-56.

"Excavating the Historic Suburb" in American Quarterly, v. 41, no. 4 (December, 1989): 689-94.

"The Suburban Canon Over Time," in Suburban Discipline Edited by Peter Lang (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997)pp. 36-51.

"The Pedagogy of Public History," Journal of American Ethnic History," with Rachel Bernstein (Fall, 1998), v. 18, no. 1: pp. 77-92

"Race, Gender and Equity Policy: The Case of the National Institute of Education," with Marilyn Tobias, to History of Education Quarterly (Winter 1999), v. 39, no 4:397-426.

"American Educational Policy in the Nineteenth Century," in Paul Finkelman (ed) Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century (NY: Charles Scribers, 2001), v. 1, pp. 395-98.

“Cities of Knowledge,” History of Education Quarterly, v 46, no 1 (Spring 2006): 100-105.

“The Suburban Discourse,” in Journal of Urban History v35, No. 4 (March 2009):418-25.

“Clark Kerr: The Unapologetic Pragmatist,”  Social Science History (Winter 2012) v.36, no. 4:481-497.

“A Maryland Jesuit in Eighteenth Century Europe,” Maryland Historical Magazine v. 107, no.2 (Summer 2012)

Administrative Experience

Dept Chair, NYU’s Dept of Cultural Foundations, SEHNAP, 1974-1981

Editor, History of Education Quarterly, 1974-1985

Co-Founder and Director, NYU’s Program in Public History, 1981-2006

Co-Founder, Trustee (1999-Present), President (2007-2014), Elizabeth (NJ)

Historical Society

Editor, NYU Press Series, Education and Socialization in American History, 1975-82

Editorial Board, History of Education, (Australia) 1980-95

Editorial Board, The Public Historian, 1999-2002

Board Member, National Council on Public History, 1983-87

Network Chair (Education) Social Science History Association, 1995-2005

AWARDS, GRANTS, & RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

National Research Council  [Committee for the Basic Research on  Education Chairman: James Coleman], l970-l97l.

Spencer Foundation Fellowship, National Academy of Education, l974-l979.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend [June-July], 1985.

New Jersey Historical Commission Grant, July 1986-July 1987

New York University Challenge Grant, 1990-91; NYU Emergency Challenge Grant, 1994-95; 2001-2002

2005 NYU Golden Dozen Award for Teaching Excellence

2005 NYU History Society Distinguished Teacher Award