Faculty

Christopher P. Loss
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education
Affiliated Faculty, Department of History

PhD, History, University of Virginia, 2007
PhD, Education, University of Virginia, 2007

20th Century U.S. political, social, and intellectual history; U.S. higher education and educational policy history; war and society; social science; and American political development.

Telephone: 615-343-4038
Email: christopher.p.loss@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: T 3:00-4:30 pm
Office: 205D Payne Hall, Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University

Personal website: http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/x7509.xml

Curriculum vitae: Christopher P. Loss CV

Christopher P. Loss is a historian of the twentieth century United States who specializes in the political, social, and policy history of U.S. higher education. A past research fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia (2004-05), and at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., (2006-07), Loss’s publications include peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of American History, the Journal of Policy History, and the History of Education Quarterly, among others. His article “’The Most Wonderful Thing Has Happened To Me In The Army’: Psychology, Citizenship, and American Higher Education in World War II,” Journal of American History 92.3 (Dec. 2005), won the 2006 James Madison Prize, awarded annually to an outstanding article on the history of the federal government by the Society for History in the Federal Government. He received the 2007 Award for Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Virginia. Most recently, his dissertation, From Democracy to Diversity: The Politics of American Higher Education in the Twentieth Century, which examines the role of higher education in state-building and in defining conceptions of citizenship in the twentieth century, was awarded the 2008 Dissertation of the Year Award by the American Educational Research Association (Division J: Higher Education).

Currently, Professor Loss is revising his dissertation manuscript for publication and beginning work on several new projects: one on the institutionalization of women’s studies in the university enterprise; another on the influence of real and metaphoric wars in U.S. higher education policymaking since World War II.

Courses taught:
LPO 3464 – PhD Seminar on the History of U.S. Higher Education
LPO 3460 – 20th Century U.S. Higher Education Policy History
LPO 3800 – Nature and Function of American Higher Education
HOD 1800 – Introduction to U.S. Public Policy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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