Ramapo College of New Jersey

505 Ramapo Valley Rd.

Mahwah, NJ 07430-1680

(201)684-7627

e-mail: aurbiel@ramapo.edu

Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, 1996

Dissertation: "The Making of Citizens: A History of Civic Education in Indianapolis, 1900-1950," Dissertation Director: John Bodnar.

M.A., Wayne State University, Detroit, 1988

B.A., Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, 1984

2001 to present, Associate Professor of History, Ramapo College of New Jersey, School of Social Science and Human Services

1996 to 2001, Assistant Professor of History, Ramapo College of New Jersey, School of Social Science and Human Services

1996 Winter Semester, Instructor, Anderson University, History Department

1996 Winter Semester, Instructor, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, History Department

1995 Fall Semester, Visiting Lecturer, Indiana University, College of Arts and Sciences

1993-95 Associate Instructor, Indiana University, History Department

2002-2003 Interim Director of Teacher Education, Ramapo College of New Jersey

1993-96 Editorial Assistant, History of Education Quarterly

1990-92, Research Assistant, Population Institute for Research and Training, Indiana University

1988-90, Graduate Assistant, History of Education Quarterly

"The American Legion and the Civic Education of Teenage Boys during the Cold War," Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, March 25-28, 2004, Boston.

"The Birth of Modern American Public Education," (Invited Speaker), American Center of Volgagrad State Pedagogical University, October 27, 2002, Volgagrad, Russia.

"The Constitution of the United States is the Greatest Missile of the World': Teenage Boys, the American Legion, and Civic Education in Cold War America," Third International Conference on the Politics of Childhood, September 10-12, 2002, Hull, England.

"Civic Education in Cold War America: The Case of Boys State and Boys Nation," Second Annual Society for Childhood and Youth History Conference, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 27-28, 2001.

"Utilizing New Media in Small Public and Private Liberal Arts Colleges: A Roundtable Discussion," (Organizer, Chair, and Presenter), Annual Meeting of the American Association for History and Computing: "Moving Clio into the New Millennium: Interaction, Visualization, Digitization, and Collaboration." February 1-4, 2001, Indianapolis.

"The Education of Children in the United States and at the Hermitage in Late Victorian America," (Invited Speaker), Hermitage History Lecture Series, February 8, 2001, Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey.

"The Myth of the Educational Ladder: Some History Lessons about the Role of Race and Class in Education," (Invited Speaker), Historical Perspectives/Contemporary Struggles: Teach-In Against Racism, Ramapo College of New Jersey, April 6, 1999.

"The Schoolhouse as Equalizer: Gender and Class Barriers to Education," (Panel Chair), Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 2-5, 1998, Indianapolis.

"The Making of Citizens: Civic Education in 20th Century Indianapolis," (Invited Speaker), New Faculty Lecture Series, Ramapo College of New Jersey, November 18, 1997.

"Civic Education and Consumerism in 1950s Indianapolis," Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society, Philadelphia, October 23-26, 1997.

"From Solemnity to Spectacle: The Transformation of Memorial Day in Indianapolis, 1900-1930," Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, May 29-31, 1997.

"Curricular and Extracurricular Developments in Indiana Schools During the Early Twentieth Century: Conflict and Consensus in the Hoosier State," (Symposium Organizer), Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York City, April 8-12, 1996.

"Civic Education in Indianapolis Before World War I: The Struggle between Educators, Reformers, and Veterans to Define Citizenship in a Growing City," Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York City, April 8-12, 1996.

"The Struggle to Define Memorial Day in Early Twentieth Century Indianapolis: Veterans, Automobile Racing, and the Commercialization of Leisure Time in the Hoosier Capital," Annual Joint Meeting of the Midwest Popular Culture Association and the Midwest American Culture Association, Indianapolis, November 3-4, 1995.

"High School Educators and the Changing Concept of Americanism: World War I to the Great Depression," Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society, Kansas City, Missouri, October 24-27, 1991.

"Indianapolis 500," Encyclopedia of Sport in American Culture, Joyce Duncan, ed., (forthcoming, ABC-Clio, 2004).

"From Solemnity to Spectacle:  The Transformation of Memorial Day in Indianapolis, 1900-1918," in Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display, Jack Santino and Cristina Sanchez Carretero, eds., (University of Alcala Press, 2003). 

"Boy Scouts," "Girl Scouts," and "Student Government," Historical Dictionary of American Education, Richard Altenbaugh, ed., (Greenwood Press, 1999).

"Anton Hulman," American National Biography, John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., (Oxford University Press, 1998).

"Civic Education in Indianapolis during the Progressive Era," Chapter 4 in Hoosier Schools: Past and Present, William J. Reese, ed., (Indiana University Press, 1998).

"Indiana University," International Dictionary of University Histories, Elizabeth Devine, ed., (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998).

"Nativism," "Schools: 20th Century," Reader's Guide to American History, Peter J. Parish, ed., (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998).

"Household Patterns of the Elderly and the Proximity of Children in a Nineteenth-Century City, Verviers, Belgium, 1831-1846," (co-authored with George Alter and Lisa Cligget) in Aging and Generational Relations Over the Life Course: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective, Tamara K. Hareven, ed., (Walter de Gruyter, 1996).

"Social Services in the Schools," "Female Education," "Teacher Unions," "Indianapolis Female Institute," Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows, eds., (Indiana University Press, 1994).

Richard Ian Kimball, Sports in Zion:  Mormon Recreation, 1890-1940, (University of Illinois Press, 2003), in History of Education Quarterly, forthcoming.

Emma Lou Thornbrough, Indiana Blacks in the Twentieth Century, (Indiana University Press, 2001), in Journal of Illinois History, Volume 5, number 4 (Winter 2002).

David L. Angus and Jeffrey E. Mirel, The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890-1995, (Teachers College Press, 1999), in Journal of American History, Volume 88, number 2 (September 2001).

"City Schools as Mirrors of Modern Urban Life," Review Essay of: Gregory S. Jacobs, Getting Around Brown: Desegregation, Development, and the Columbus Public Schools, (Ohio State University Press, 1998); Ruth Jacknow Markowitz, My Daughter the Teacher: Jewish Teachers in the New York City Schools, (Rutgers University Press, 1993); Kate Rousmaniere, City Teachers: Teaching and School Reform in Historical Perspective, (Teachers College Press, 1997); Clarence Taylor, Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the Struggle to Integrate New York City Schools, (Columbia University Press, 1997) in Journal of Urban History, Volume 27, number 4 (May 2001).

Henry Bengston, On the Left in America: Memoirs of the Scandanavian-American Labor Movement, (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999), in Journal of Illinois History, Volume 3, number 3 (Autumn 2000).

William C. Kashatus, A Virtuous Education: Penn's Vision for Philadelphia Schools, (Pendle Hill Publications, 1997), in History of Education Quarterly, Volume 39, number 1 (Spring 1999).

Henry S. Lucas, Dutch Immigrant Memoirs and Related Writings, revised edition, (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1997) in Illinois Historical Journal, Volume 91, number 1 (Spring 1998).

Laura I. Rendon and Richard O Hope, eds., Educating a New Majority: Transforming America's Educational System for Diversity, (Jossey-Bass, 1996) and James A. Banks, ed., Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge, and Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, (Teachers College Press, 1996), in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education Volume XXXIII, number 3 (1997).

Blake McKelvey, Snow in the Cities: A History of America's Urban Response, (University of Rochester Press, 1995) in New York History Volume LXXVIII, number 2 (April 1997).

Christopher J. Lucas, American Higher Education: A History, (St. Martin's Press, 1996), in The Canadian Review of American Studies Volume 27, number 2 (1997).

MEMBERSHIPS

Organization of American Historians; History of Education Society; Society for the History of Childhood and Youth.