Ongoing Research


   Below is a list of historians who are actively engaged in the research in particular topics that focus fully or partially on Scouting. The purpose of this list is to provide the opportunity to communicate between historians conducting research the same, or a related historical question.
   If you wish to be listed, or make corrections, please contact us with the following information:

  • Name.
  • Area of Study (eg.: Boy Scouting, Girl Scouting, Youth, etc.)
  • Research question(s) currently under study.
  • Time period(s).
  • If inclined, a brief (250 characters) description of your research.
  • E-mail and/or web site address.

 

Bar-Yosef, Eitan
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Israeli Scouting; Postcolonial literatures; British imperial and cultural history
19th & 20th Century
eby (at) bgu.ac.il;

Cordery, Stacy A.
Monmouth College
Current Research Interests: Juliette Gordon Low; Helen H. Taft; Mabel Boardman; First Ladies and First Families; The Women's Club Movement
stacy (at) monm.edu; http://department.monm.edu/history/SACordery/StacyCordery.htm

Crotty, Martin
University of Queensland
War and Australian society, sports history, masculinity, and education.
1850-1950
m.crotty (at) uq.edu.au; http://www.uq.edu.au/uqresearchers/researcher/crottyma.html

Formark, Bodil
Mid Sweden University and the National Graduate School of Gender Studies
Scouting in Sweden
20th Century
Bodil.Formark (at) miun.se;

Kudriashov, Yuri
Pomor State University (Arkhangelsk, Russia)
Scouting in Russia
kudry (at) pomorsu.ru

Lammers, Benjamin J.
Caldwell College
blammers (at) caldwell.edu; http://faculty.caldwell.edu/blammers

Macleod, David I.
Central Michigan University
The history of childhood and youth in the United States, the history of philanthropy, and the history of voluntary organizations.
1870-1920
macle1d (at) cmich.edu; http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/history/faculty/macleod.htm

Mechling, Jay
University of California - Davis
Masculinity, History and Cultures of Childhood, Animals and Science, Cold War Tourism and Culture.
20th Century
jemechling (at) ucdavis.edu; http://ams.ucdavis.edu/~jemechling/Homepage.html

Miller, Susan A.
University of Pennsylvania
Sports and sexuality, youth culture and environmental history. Campfire and Girl Scouts, with an emphasis on camping.
1870-1940
samiller (at) sas.upenn.edu;http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/miller.shtml

Mills, Sarah
Aberystwyth University
UK Scout Movement, Religion, Identity, Citizenship
Post WW2
slm06 (at) aber.ac.uk; http://users.aber.ac.uk/slm06

Paradis, Lia
Slippery Rock University
lia.paradis (at) sru.edu; http://academics.sru.edu/history/staff/paradis/default.asp

Parsons, Timothy H.
Washington University
Social historian of twentieth century Africa; Scouting in Colonial Africa.
20th Century
tparsons (at) wustl.edu; http://artsci.wustl.edu/faculty/parsons-timothy

Peavy, David
Catholic Boy Scouting in the USA and discrimination issues with the BSA (race, ethnicity, religious belief, etc.).
1910-present
david.peavy (at) catholicscouting.org; http://www.CatholicScouting.org

Proctor, Tammy
Wittenberg University
Girl Guiding and Scouting
20th Century
tproctor (at) wittenberg.edu; http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/tproctor

Rothschild, Mary Logan
Arizona State University
Specializes in the history of American women and feminism, women’s oral history and gender equity in education. Currently working on: "Girl Scouting and the Culture of American Womanhood, 1912-1982," which uses Girl Scouting as a window on American girlhood and womanhood in the Twentieth Century.
20th Century
mary.rothschild (at) asu.edu;

Soland, Birgitte
Ohio State University
The history of women, youth, children and children's rights.
20th Century
soland.1 (at) osu.edu; http://history.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=730

Walker, Colin R.
Scouting Milestones
Baden-Powell and Boy Scouting in the UK
scouting.milestones (at) btinternet.com; http://www.scouting.milestones.btinternet.co.uk

Warren, Allen
University of York
History of British youth and its condition and culture.
1880s-1970
ajw9 (at) york.ac.uk; http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/hist/staff/warren.shtml

Watenpaugh, Keith David
University of California - Davis
Scouting in the Middle East; Focus on the multiple intersections of the modern international human rights regime, Islam and colonialism in the 20th century Arab Middle East.
20th Century
kwatenpaugh (at) ucdavis.edu; http://religions.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Watenpaugh

Watt, Carey A.
St. Thomas University (Fredericton, Canada)
Colonial and postcolonial South Asia; Indian Boy Scout movement
19-20th Century
cwatt (at) stu.ca; http://people.stu.ca/~cwatt/Site/Homepage.html

Witt, David L.
Ernest Thompson Seton Legacy Project, Academy for the Love of Learning
Ernest Thompson Seton
20th Century
davidlwitt (at) @cybermesa.com; http://www.aloveoflearning.org
 


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