Research Fellowships
2020-2021 Spencer Foundation / National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship ($70,000)
2020 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship ($30,000)
2016-2017 Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society Doctoral Fellowship ($25,000)
Books and Book Chapters
Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform. 2022, University of Chicago Press.
"Student Participation in Shared Governance at American Research Universities" (forthcoming 2023, with David Johnson and Sergey Mogilnyy). In Conner, J., et al., eds., International Handbook of Student Voice in Higher Education. Bloomsbury Publishing.
“Academic Senates in Comparative Perspective: Models of Faculty Governance in American Higher Education” (2018). In Weiler, H. N., ed. The Stanford Senate of the Academic Council: Reflections on Fifty Years of Faculty Governance, 1968-2018. Stanford University Office of the Academic Secretary.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Ris, Ethan W. (2023). "A Good Crisis: Emergencies and the Reframing of American Higher Education, 1944-1965." Peabody Journal of Education, forthcoming.
Ris, Ethan W. (2021). “What’s Future Is Epilogue: The Uses of Higher Education History.” American Journal of Education 127 (4), 657-668.
Ris, Ethan W. (2020). “God and Man at Yali College: The Short, Troubled History of an American College in China.” History of Education 49 (2), 184-208.
Ris, Ethan W. (2020). “The Academic Engineers: Understanding a Cohort of Higher Education Reformers.” Perspectives on the History of Higher Education 33 (1), 18-48.
Ris, Ethan W. (2018). “The Origins of Systemic Reform in American Higher Education, 1895- 1920.” Teachers College Record 120 (10), 1-42.
Ris, Ethan W. (2017). “The Education of Andrew Carnegie: Strategic Philanthropy in Higher Education, 1880-1919.” Journal of Higher Education 88 (3), 401-429.
Ris, Ethan W. (2016). “Hierarchy as a Theme in the US College, 1880–1920.” History of Education 45 (1), 57-78.
Ris, Ethan W. (2015). “Grit: A Short History of a Useful Concept,” Journal of Educational Controversy 10 (1), Article 3.
Other Scholarly Writing
Cole, Eddie R., and Ethan W. Ris (forthcoming 2023). “The Truman Commission Report at 75: Introduction to the Special Issue.” Peabody Journal of Education 97 (5).
Ris, Ethan W. (2022). “Higher Education Deals in Democracy: The Truman Commission Report as a Political Document.” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 54 (1), 17-23.
Ris, Ethan W. (forthcoming 2022). Review of Charlie Eaton’s "Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education.” Review of Higher Education.
Ris, Ethan W. (2019). “In American Higher Ed, Hierarchy Begets Hierarchy.” In “The Academy and Democracy” (online symposium). Journal of the History of Ideas.
Ris, Ethan W. (2018). “Review of Robert L. Hampel’s “Fast and Curious: A History of Shortcuts in American Education.’” History of Education Quarterly 58 (4), pp. 609-611.
Ris, Ethan W. (2015). Review of Kate Rousmaniere’s “The Principal's Office.” Bildungsgeschichte: International Journal for the Historiography of Education 5 (1), 115-118.
Invited Research Talks
Brandeis University Department of Education (February 2023)
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (November 2022)
History of Education Society (author-meets-critics session, November 2022)
University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Education (October 2022)
Trinity College/Stanford University/Ivy Plus Network (July 2022)
Spencer Foundation 50th Anniversary Conference (June 2022)
Policy History Association Annual Meeting (June 2022)
Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (April 2022)
Vanderbilt University Peabody College of Education (March 2022)
Texas Christian University College of Education (February 2022)
Stanford University Humanities Center (February 2022)