CONTRIBUTOR:

Luther Spoehr

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Senior Lecturer

DEPARTMENT:

Education and History

INSTITUTION:

Brown University

BIOGRAPHY:

Luther Spoehr is Senior Lecturer in Education and (by courtesy) History at Brown University, where he teaches courses about the history of American higher education and the history of American school reform, including “Academic Freedom on Trial: A Century of Campus Controversies.” His Ph.D. dissertation, a study of David Starr Jordan, Stanford University's first president, included detailed examination of early academic freedom cases there. His most recent article is “Making Brown’s ‘New Curriculum’ in 1969: The Importance of Context and Contingency,” forthcoming in the journal Rhode Island History.