Program Schedule for Monday, March 19, 2007

Program Schedule for Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Program: International Education

Robert J. Snavely Award Winners for 2007 can be found here.

Keynoters

Monday Luncheon Keynote Speaker:
"The Globalization of Education as a Commodity"

Gloria Ladson-Billings

Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education
Department of Curriculum & Instruction
University of Wisconsin-Madison

GLORIA LADSON-BILLINGS is the Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the immediate past president of the American Educational Research Association. Ladson-Billings’ research examines the pedagogical practices of teachers who are successful with African American students. She also investigates Critical Race Theory applications to education. She is the author of the critically acclaimed books, The Dreamkeepers: Successful teachers of African American children; Crossing over to Canaan : The journey of new teachers in diverse classrooms; and Beyond the Big House: African American Educators on Teacher Education, and more than 50 journal articles and book chapters. She is the former editor of the American Educational Research Journal and a member of several editorial boards. Her work has won numerous scholarly awards including the H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship, The Spencer Post-doctoral Fellowship, and the Palmer O. Johnson outstanding research award. In 2002 she was awarded an honorary doctorate for Umea University, Umea Sweden. During the 2003-2004 academic year she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA. In fall of 2004 she received the George and Louise Spindler Award from the Council on Anthropology and Education for significant and ongoing contributions to the field of educational anthropology. In the spring of 2005 she was elected to the National Academy of Education and the National Society for the Study of Education.

Tuesday Luncheon Keynote Speaker:
"Literature Makes History:How Poets Helped End Slavery."

James G. Basker

President
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

JAMES G. BASKER is President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and The Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Educated at Harvard College, Cambridge University, and (as a Rhodes Scholar) at Oxford University, Basker taught at Harvard for seven years before coming to Barnard in 1987.

His scholarly work spans the fields of history and literature, focusing especially on the 18th century and the history of slavery and abolition. He has published several books, the most recent of which are Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery 1660-1810 (2002), Early American Abolitionists: A Collection of Anti-Slavery Writings 1760-1820 (2005), and Slavery in the Founding Era: Literary Contexts (2005).

As President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute for the past nine years, Basker has overseen the development of history education initiatives nationwide, including history high schools, teacher seminars, traveling exhibitions, publication series, scholarly fellowships, research centers, and national history teacher of the year awards.

Recently he was Project Director for "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America" at the New-York Historical Society, the largest exhibition on Hamilton ever mounted. A former fellowship holder at the American Antiquarian Society, Yale University, and Cambridge University, Basker is an elected member of the Society of American Historians, and a trustee of both the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Center on Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale.