Curriculum Vitae

A. SCOTT HENDERSON
101-J Hipp Hall, Furman University
3300 Poinsett Highway, Greenville SC 29613
864.294.3384
Scott.Henderson@Furman.edu

EDUCATION

  • State University of New York at Buffalo, Ph.D. (History), 1996
  • University of Virginia, Teacher Certification (Secondary Social Studies), 1986
  • Johns Hopkins University, M.A. (History), 1985
  • Florida State University, B.A. (History & International Affairs), 1984 (summa cum laude)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Furman University, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Education (1998-)
  • Furman University, Adjunct Professor of History (1996-1998)
  • Yamagata Women’s Junior College, Senior Lecturer in English (Japan, 1989-1990)
  • Chesapeake City Schools, Secondary Social Studies Teacher (1986-1989)

HONORS/AWARDS

Grants/Fellowships:

  • Mellon Foundation Advance Planning Grant, 2005
  • Belle W. Baruch Foundation Visiting Scholar, 2004
  • National Network for Educational Renewal Fellow, 2003-2004
  • Furman University Research & Professional Development Grant, 1999
  • Mark Diamond Research Grant, 1994
  • Milton Plesur Graduate and Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-1996
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1988
  • Virginia Education Association Grant, 1988
  • Harry S. Truman Scholarship, 1982-1986
  • Florida Academic Scholarship, 1981-1984
  • Florida State University Selby Scholarship, 1980-1984

Awards/Recognitions:

  • Furman University Quaternion Society, 2016
  • Furman University Meritorious Teaching Award, 2013
  • Furman University Chiles-Harrill Award, 2011
  • SC Governor’s Distinguished Professor Award, 2010
  • SC Association of Independent Colleges Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010
  • Furman University Maiden Invitational Award, 2008
  • Furman University Meritorious Advising Award, 2002
  • Teacher of the Year Award, Association of Furman Students, 2002
  • Highest teaching evaluations among history department faculty (SUNY-Buffalo), 1994
  • Selig Adler Prize, best graduate history paper (SUNY-Buffalo), 1992
  • United States Civil Service Award, 1991
  • Marion J. Hays Prize (FSU), most outstanding Phi Beta Kappa scholar, 1984
  • Mortar Board Award (highest academic standing in junior class, FSU), 1983
  • Elevated to the Order of Chevalier, International Order of DeMolay, 1982
  • John Philip Sousa National Music Award, 1980

Honor Societies:

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Phi Kappa Phi
  • Pi Sigma Alpha
  • Pi Gamma Mu
  • Omicron Delta Epsilon
  • Phi Alpha Theta
  • Omicron Delta Kappa
  • Phi Mu Alpha
  • Kappa Delta Pi
  • National Gold Key

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

  • Co-Editor with P. L. Thomas, James Baldwin: Challenging Authors (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2014).
  • Co-Editor with Lloyd Benson, Paul Rasmussen, and Wade Worthen, Competition: A Multidisciplinary Analysis (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2009).
  • Editor and annotator, Power and the Public Interest: The Memoirs of Joseph Swidler (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002).
  • Housing and the Democratic Ideal: The Life and Thought of Charles Abrams (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).

Articles/Book Chapters/Proceedings:

  • “Local School Boards and LGBTQ Policy Decisions: A Qualitative Case Study,” Sexes 4, no. 3 (September 2023), 429-447.
  • “Clarence Thomas and Student Speech Rights in Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L.,” Journal of Education and Social Policy 9, no. 2 (June 2022), 1-6.
  • “The Silencing of LGBTQ Voices in U.S. Public Schools,” Shuddhashar 29 (May 2022).
  • “GSA v. Spearman and the Fight Against Anti-Gay Curriculum Laws,” International Journal of Social Policy and Education 3, no. 6 (June, 2021), 9-18.
  • “No Joke: Using Humor in Class is Harder When Instruction is Remote,” The Conversation (February 4, 2021): https://theconversation.com/no-joke-using-humor-in-class-is-harder-when-learning-is-remote-153818
  • “The Political is Personal: Limitations to Coming Out as a Social Justice Strategy,” Shuddhashar 20 (August 2020), 8-16.
  • “Could Johnny Tremain Be Gay? Reinterpretation as a Subversive Act,” Journal of Homosexuality 68, no. 3 (Winter, 2021), 476-495, published online (August 20, 2019) at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2019.1656508
  • “Enhancing Cognition: Historical and Contemporary Debates,” US-China Education Review 7, no. 6 (June 2017), 274-283.
  • “Just Like Us? LGBTQ Characters in Mainstream Comics,” in Crag Hill, ed., Teaching Comics Through Multiple Lenses: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2016).
  • “Toward a Pedagogy of Compassion: Acknowledging and Validating LGBT Identities,” in Paul Thomas, Paul R. Carr, Julie A. Gorlewski, and Brad J. Porfilio, eds., Pedagogies of Kindness and Respect: On the Lives and Education of Children (New York: Peter Lang, 2015).
  • “Uplift Versus Upheaval: The Pedagogical Visions of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin,” in A. Scott Henderson and P. L. Thomas, eds., James Baldwin: Challenging Authors (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2014).
  • “Schools as Battlegrounds: The Authoritarian Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas” in P. L. Thomas, ed., Becoming and Being a Teacher: Confronting Traditional Norms to Create New Democratic Realities (New York: Peter Lang, 2012).
  • “The New Positivism: Research and Education,” National Social Science Journal 35, no. 2 (2011).
  • “The Brain Race: Competition, National Security, and the Rise of Federal Aid to Education,” in A. Scott Henderson, Lloyd Benson, Paul Rasmussen, and Wade Worthen, eds., Competition: A Multidisciplinary Analysis (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2009).
  • “The Pedagogical Implications of School Choice Initiatives in South Carolina,” Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina 9, no. 1 (Fall, 2009).
  • Co-author with Cathryn A. Stevens, “Local Knowledge and Its Implications for Teacher Education in South Carolina,” Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina 8, no. 1 (Fall, 2008).
  • “Fighting For the Past: Lessons from the David Irving Trial,” Social Education 72, no. 6 (October, 2008).
  • “Building Intelligent and Active Public Minds: Education and Social Reform in Greenville County During the 1930s,” South Carolina Historical Magazine 106 (January 2005).
  • “World Literature and Multiculturalism in High School Curricula,” Carolina English Teacher 10, no. 1 (Winter 2002).
  • “Understanding Cities: An Overview of Urban Social Theory,” in Robert Hartmann McNamara and Sarah K. Vatland, eds., Understanding Contemporary Social Problems (Tempe: Scholargy Press, 2002).
  • “Charles Abrams and the Problem of a Business Welfare State,” Journal of Policy History 9 (Summer 1997).
  • “The New York State Commission Against Discrimination and the Quest for Equality in Housing,” in Proceedings of the Sixth National Biennial Conference on American Planning (Richmond: Society for American City and Regional Planning History, 1996).
  • “A Better Home in a Nice Neighborhood: Housing, Race, and Residential Conflict,” in Martin Melkonian and Marc Silver, eds., Contested Terrain: Power, Politics and Participation in Suburbia (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995).
  • “Tarred With the Exceptional Image: Public Housing and Popular Discourse, 1950-1990,” American Studies 36 (Spring, 1995).
  • “American Pluralism and the Construction of Ethnicity in World War II Combat Films,” Intercultural Studies 1, no. 1 (Fall, 1994).