Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
School of Education | Department of Educational Policy Studies/Department of History
Hometown: Pelkie, Michigan
Adam R. Nelson is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. in History from Brown University. His publications include Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872-1964 (2001);The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s Public Schools (2005);Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America, co-edited with John L. Rudolph (2010);The Global University: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives, co-edited with Ian P. Wei (2012);Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America (2023);and Capital of Mind: The Idea of a Modern American University (2024).
Talks:
History of Higher Education in the United States
I am happy to lecture on most aspects of the history of higher education in the United States.
History of Education in the United States
I am happy to lecture on most aspects of the history of education in the United States.