Maxwell Harrison

Maxwell Harrison

  • Graduate Student

Contact

mlh3@iastate.edu

515-294-7266

Ross 612

Bio

Research Interests:

American rural life and agriculture, education, gender, childhood, and family, Midwestern.

Conference presentations:

“‘You Have to Be Careful of the After-clap’: Changing Attitudes to Rural School Modernization,” Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Symposium, Ypsilanti, MI, March 2019

“The Plight of the ‘Official Toilet Inspectors:’ Rural School Reform and Public Health, 1890-1930,” Northern Great Plains History Conference, Eau Claire, WI, October 2020.

Education

BS, History and Mathematics, Eastern Michigan University, 2019

Selected Publications

  • “Rural Education’s Trailblazers: The Michigan State Normal College, Rural Communities, and the Transformation of Rural Education,” Michigan Historical Review (Forthcoming)