Professor Curriculum & Instruction N119 Lagomarcino Hall Iowa State University Ames, IA  50011 Phone: 515/294-6937 E-mail: jblount@iastate.edu
Primary Courses Taught:
CI 204: Introduction to the Social Foundations of Education HPC 588: History of American Education
Education:
Ph.D. Social Foundations of Education, UNC Chapel Hill, 1993 M.A.T. Physics Education, UNC Chapel Hill, 1989 B.M.Ed. Music Education (horn), UNC Chapel Hill, 1983
Research Projects:
Biography of Ella Flagg Young History of sexuality and gender in public school employment History of women school leaders
Selected Honors/Awards:
Career Achievement in Research Award, ISU College of Human Sciences, 2006. Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award, 2006, History of Education Society, for Fit to Teach. Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association, for Fit to Teach, 2005. Iowa Academy of Education, inducted as member, 2005. Davis Award – For the most outstanding article published in Educational Administration Quarterly (EAQ) during the 2004 volume year. Article co-written with Marilyn Tallerico (first author). Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association, for Destined to Rule the Schools, 1998. Early Achievement in Teaching Award, Iowa State University, Spring 1997. Thomas Urban Award for Research in Education, FINE Foundation, November 1997.
Selected Publications:
Books: In progress: Jackie Blount, The Life and Thought of Ella Flagg Young. Completed draft of manuscript expected by April 2009. Ira Bogotch, Floyd Beachum, Jackie Blount, Jeff Brooks, and Fenwick English (2008). Radicalizing Educational Leadership: The Dimensions of Social Justice. Rotterdam, Netherlands: SensePublishing. Fenwick W. English, editor, and Jackie Blount, co-editor of biographical entries (2006). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Jackie Blount (2005). Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Jackie Blount (1998). Destined to Rule the Schools: Women and the Superintendency, 1873-1995. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.    Articles and Chapters: Jackie Blount (2007). “Describing and Discharging Some Historical Tensions about Sexuality and Gender in School Leadership.” In Keeping the Promise: Educational Leadership and the Promise of Democracy in Our Time, eds. Dennis Carlson and C. P. Gause. New York: Peter Lang. Marilyn Tallerico and Jackie Blount (2004). “Women and the Superintendency: Insights from Theory and History,” Educational Administration Quarterly 40, 5: 633-662. Jackie Blount (2004). “Social Studies and the Creation of Otherness: Sexuality/Gender Transgression, 1920-1980.” In Social Studies in the Twentieth Century: Curriculum and Context for Citizenship, eds. Joseph Watras, Christine Woyshner, Margaret Crocco. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 176-191. Jackie Blount (2000). "Spinsters, Mollycoddles, and Other Gender Transgressors in School Employment, 1850-1990," Review of Educational Research (Spring). Jackie M. Blount (1999). "Manliness and the Construction of Men’s and Women’s Work in Schools, 1865-1941," International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2(2). Jackie Blount (1998). "The Visceral Pleasures of the Well-Worn Rut: Internal Barriers to Changing the Social Relations of American Classrooms." In Classroom Discipline in American Schools: The Democratic and Emancipatory Potential of Public Education, Ronald Butchart and Barbara McEwan (eds.). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Jackie M. Blount (1996). "Manly Men and Womanly Women: Deviance, Gender Role Polarization and the Shift in Women's School Employment, 1900-1976," Harvard Educational Review (Summer): 318-338.