Dr. Daniel "Dan" Clark
Education
- Ph.D. - History, Purdue University - 2001
- M.A. - History, Purdue University - 1993
- B.A. - History, Millikin University - 1990
Professional Webpage
Dan Clark was born and raised in Danville, Illinois. He received his bachelor's degree in History from Millikin University in 1990 and his master's degree in History from Purdue in 1993. Dan then earned his Ph.D. in history from Purdue in 2001 with a major field in American Intellectual History and minor fields in Early Modern Europe and Colonial Latin American History. Dan's area of research interest involved exploring why going to college became such a central part of American notions of success. In pursuing that question, he eventually focused on how college became integrated into visions of masculine success and power in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, and saw the rise of a new national media in American mass magazines as an ideal avenue for exploring this evolving concept of middle-class manhood involving college. His Purdue dissertation grew into his first book, Creating the College Man: American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 1890-1915 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2010), along with several articles. In 2014 Dan began work on a new history of Indiana State University to celebrate the institution's sesquicentennial. This research resulted in the publication of A History of Indiana State University: From Normal School to Teachers College, 1865-1933, the first of a two volme history of the school. In addition to teaching American History courses at ISU, Dan also serves as the coordinator for the Social Studies Education major. He lives in Terre Haute with his wife Janet and has two daughters, Betsy and Abby.Teaching Interests
- Dan has taught a wide range of courses during the course of his academic career.<br><br>American History to 1877<br>American History Since 1865Capstone History Undergraduate Research Seminar<br>Emergence of the Modern United States (Gilded Age and Progressive Era)<br>United States in Crisis: World War I through World War II<br>Graduate Research Seminar<br>History of Thought and Culture in the United States, to 1865<br>History of Thought and Culture in the United States, 1865-Present<br>Oral History<br>Social Studies Methods (intro and advanced courses)<br>World History to1500World History Since 1500<br>Western Civilization to 1500 (Honors)<br>Western Civilization Since 1500
Research Interests
- Dan's central area of interest involves American higher education, but always with a desire to explore how cultural expectations and values concerning college evolved, and this in turn led him to explore how visions of middle-class masculinity emerged to include college-going as a critical aspect of that identity circa 1900. Recently Dan has turned more toward traditional, institutional history of higher education with his scholarship on the history of Indiana State University. The growth and transformation of normal schools into universities stands as an area ripe for deeper understanding. Some selected scholarly works include the following:<br><br><i>A History of Indiana State University: From Normal School to Teachers College, 1865-1933</i>. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022. The first volume of a planned two-volume history of ISU.<br><i> </i><i> </i><br><i>Creating the College Man: American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 1890-1915</i>. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. Studies in American Thought and Culture Series, edited by Paul Boyer.<br><br>“The College Man in Popular Fiction: American Magazines and the Vision of the Middle-Class Man, 1890-1915,” chapter in <i>American Education in Popular Media: From the Blackboard to the Silver Screen</i>, eds. Patrick Ryan and Sevan Terzian, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.<br> <br>“Imagining Harvard: Changing Visions of Harvard in Fiction, 1890-1940,” co-authored with Christian Anderson, <i>American Educational History Journal</i> 39 no. 1 (2012): 181-199.<br><br> “`The Two Joes Meet—Joe College, Joe Veteran:’ The GI Bill, College Education, and Postwar American Culture,” <i>History of Education Quarterly</i> 38 (Summer 1998): 165-189.
Dr. Clark was born and raised in Danville, IL (a proud graduate of Schlarman H.S.) and has resided in Terre Haute since 2003 with his family.
BA Millikin University, Decatur, IL (1990)
MA Purdue University (1993)
Ph.D. Purdue University (2001)
Currently Dr. Clark is researching and writing a new history of Indiana State University, with a hopeful date of publication sometime in 2020.
Book:
Creating the College Man: American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 1890-1915. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. Studies in American Thought and Culture Series, edited by Paul Boyer.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
“The College Man in Popular Fiction: American Magazines and the Vision of the Middle-Class Man, 1890-1915,” chapter in American Education in Popular Media: From the Blackboard to the Silver Screen, eds. Patrick Ryan and Sevan Terzian, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
“Imagining Harvard: Changing Visions of Harvard in Fiction, 1890-1940,” co-authored with Christian Anderson, American Educational History Journal 39 no. 1 (2012): 181-199.
“Piggy Goes to Harvard: Mass Magazines, the Middle Class, and the Re-Conceptualization of College for a Corporate Age, 1890-1916,” Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, (formerly the History of Higher Education Annual), 24 (2005): 1-40.
“`The Two Joes Meet—Joe College, Joe Veteran:’ The GI Bill, College Education, and Postwar American Culture,” History of Education Quarterly 38 (Summer 1998): 165-189.
American Intellectual History
The History of Masculinity in the U.S.
The History of American Higher Education (and increasingly Education more broadly)