Isaac  Gottesman


Isaac  Gottesman

Lenore Tingle Howard '42 Associate Professor of Education
Department Chair

Joined Connecticut College: 2022

Education
B.S., University of Oregon
M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.Ed., University of Oregon
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle


Specializations

History of Education, Ideas, and Left Movements in the U.S., 1945- Present

Critical Theories of Education

History of Education as an Academic Field of Study

A historian of education, Isaac Gottesman's work focuses on the history of education as an academic field of study and the relationship between education and social struggle. He is the author of The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race (Routledge, 2016), a history of the emergence of critical theories in educational scholarship. Born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, Gottesman joined the faculty at Conn in 2022.

 



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Isaac  Gottesman
Connecticut College
270 Mohegan Ave.
New London, CT 06320