Professor Thomas O'Brien
Professor
Bio
Thomas V. O'Brien is Professor of Educational Studies in the School of Education, Interim Director of the Center for Black Studies, and a Faculty Fellow in Honors College. and affiliate faculty at the Center for Black Studies and Honors College. O'Brien studies the history of race and schooling in the U.S. He earned a B.A. at Brown and Ph.D. at Emory University. He has taught middle-school and high-school science and math and held tenured positions at Millersville University and The Ohio State University.
- PHD - Emory University (1992)
- MED - Emory University (1988)
- BA - Brown University (1981)
History of American Education; History of Higher Education in America; Critical Issues in American Education, Comparative Education Policy Analysis and Research on a Global Level; P-12 School Law; Historical Research Methods; Public Education in the U.S.; Epistemology in Social Science Research
- Promoting 鈥渢he Kingdom of God鈥�: Louisiana College and G. Earl Guinn At Dawn of Culture Wars, 1951-1957 , Louisiana History Journal, 2019
- 鈥淧ork Choppers, Presidents, and Perverts: The Response of two University Presidents to Attacks on the Privacy and Academic Freedom of Professors by the Florida Legislative Investigative Committee, 1956 to 1965).鈥� , American Educational History Journal, 2016
- The Paradigm Shift in Education in Big Data Era: Exploring the Intersection of Historical Assessment Frameworks and AI-Powered Assessment Methods in Education, Journal of Education and Training Studies, ,
- Perils of Accommodation: The Case of Joseph W. Holley, AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL, 2007,
- Not Quite 鈥楧茅j脿 Vu All Over Again鈥�: No Child Left Behind Meets Effective Schools Research. , The Educational Forum, 2012,
- What Happened to the Promise of Brown? An Organizational Explanation and an Outline for Change, TEACHERS COLLEGE RECORD, 2007
- Bridging Theory and Practice in Teacher Education, 2007
- The Dog that didn't Bark: Aaron v. Cook and the NAACP Strategy in Georgia before Brown, Journal of Negro History, 1999,
- Old Dogs Can Learn to Like New Tricks: One Instructor鈥檚 Change in Attitude to Online Instruction from 2009-2017, 5th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'19), Peer-reviewed Proceedings 5th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd鈥�19), 2019,
- Democracy, Privilege, and Schooling in Georgia: Testing the effects of politics and markets. , JAI Series in Advances in Educational Policy, 1998
- American Association of University Professors
- Society for the Study of Curriculum History
- Southern History of Education Society
- The Organization of Educational Historians
- English (Native or Bilingual)
- Italian (Elementary)
- Spanish (Elementary)
- French (Elementary)