Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Biographic Data
| ID | 177817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalia Mehlman Petrzela |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalia Mehlman |
| FAMILY NAME | Petrzela |
| SIGNATURE | PETRZELA N M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden
How Do AHA’s Findings Square with the History of Teaching Controversial Issues
Despite incendiary headlines about the controversies apparently inflaming the teaching of history to American children, a new report by the American Historical Association finds that the most pressing issue for the vast majority of secondary school history teachers is not managing such raging conflicts.On the contrary, most of the three thousand history teachers interviewed in this self-reported study struggle to ignite interest in history, rathe…
Working Out a New Relationship to Objectivity, Experience, and Engaged Scholarship
As historians, our work becomes both easier and more difficult when we select topics in which we are personally involved, or causes about which we care passionately. A primer for activist scholars, this essay offers eight insights for those who seek to contemplate, and question, scholarly convention rather than uncritically uphold it, drawing on the author’s experience as a health activist and her writing on the history of fitness. This essay is …
Forum
At the request of PHR, the four historians in this forum discuss methods for feminist history. Drawing on their experiences as scholars and individuals, each author considers their personal experiences with creating feminist history, given their unique fields and positionalities; and they also offer prescriptions for future scholars. In the opening essay, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu discusses methodological insights gleaned over multiple projects as a biogr…
Fit Nation
Fit Nation
From Performance to Participation
Bien que seul∙e un∙e Américain∙e sur cinq fasse de l’exercice tous les jours comme il est recommandé et bien que toutes les statistiques existantes mettent en évidence le manque d’exercice à l’échelle de la population nationale, avoir une activité physique régulière est pourtant unanimement célébré aux États-Unis, non seulement pour les bénéfices sur la santé qu’une telle pratique apporte, mais aussi car il s’agit d’un symbole de discipline, de r…
The Siren Song of Yoga”
Yoga writ large helps illuminate the nature and the limits of evolving countercultures. Yoga in the 1960s and 1970s United States operated as a crucial vehicle for expressing critiques of patriarchy and sexual repression. Expressive forms of sexuality became pervasive in yoga culture, symptoms of the increased discursive and physical openness of the sexual revolutions. The broad-ranging spirituality associated with yoga often challenged rigid rel…
Campbell F. Scribner. The Fight for Local Control
Few icons in U.S. history have greater symbolic power than the “little red schoolhouse.” Standing in as rhetorical shorthand for rural America and its values, it inspires ambivalent associations, as Jonathan Zimmerman elaborated in a slim volume on the symbol, Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory (2009). Signifying both a simpler and bucolic yesteryear of shared values and community participation in educational affairs, …
Classroom Wars
"From Cultural Appreciation Days to Gay-Straight Alliances to cafeteria menus featuring "ethnic options," twenty-first century American public schools bear the unmistakable mark of the diversity that has come to define the nation in the last fifty years. At the same time, it is also in public schools where citizens continue to organize most passionately to limit the influence of this heterogeneity on our curricula and classroom culture. Classroom…
“Birds of Many Colors”
In the 1970s, bilingual education expanded with unforeseen energy and made major gains in state and federal policy. Exemplifying such strides was the grass-roots and progressive San Jose-based Studio Lab founded by Ernesto Galarza, who had already established a reputation as an activist and Latin America expert. Though dismantled by the early 1980s, the Studio Lab made a lasting impression, both in explicitly connecting bilingual education to mul…
HealthClass2.0
Revisiting the rightward turn
Max Rafferty is best remembered as a larger-than-life traditionalist who boasted of “killing progressive education in California.” Though rarely attracting sustained scholarly attention, the twice-elected state superintendent (1962–71) and bestselling author often serves as a symbol of the conservative populism that germinated in the Golden State and then nationally in the late twentieth century. This article challenges the “Rise of the Right” na…
Before the Federal Bilingual Education Act
The federal Bilingual Education Act (BEA; 1968) augured a new era in the national politics of diversity, schooling, and state, and California became symbolic of the problems and promise of bilingual pedagogy. This article explores how the BEA was pivotal not only in conceiving a federal commitment to the educational achievement of limited-English-speaking children but also in spurring state and local action. Yet close attention reveals how philos…
Before the Federal Bilingual Education Act
The federal Bilingual Education Act (BEA; 1968) augured a new era in the national politics of diversity, schooling, and state, and California became symbolic of the problems and promise of bilingual pedagogy. This article explores how the BEA was pivotal not only in conceiving a federal commitment to the educational achievement of limited-English-speaking children but also in spurring state and local action. Yet close attention reveals how philos…
Before the Federal Bilingual Education Act
The federal Bilingual Education Act (BEA; 1968) augured a new era in the national politics of diversity, schooling, and state, and California became symbolic of the problems and promise of bilingual pedagogy. This article explores how the BEA was pivotal not only in conceiving a federal commitment to the educational achievement of limited-English-speaking children but also in spurring state and local action. Yet close attention reveals how philos…
Revisiting the rightward turn
Max Rafferty is best remembered as a larger-than-life traditionalist who boasted of “killing progressive education in California.” Though rarely attracting sustained scholarly attention, the twice-elected state superintendent (1962–71) and bestselling author often serves as a symbol of the conservative populism that germinated in the Golden State and then nationally in the late twentieth century. This article challenges the “Rise of the Right” na…
Classroom Wars
"From Cultural Appreciation Days to Gay-Straight Alliances to cafeteria menus featuring "ethnic options," twenty-first century American public schools bear the unmistakable mark of the diversity that has come to define the nation in the last fifty years. At the same time, it is also in public schools where citizens continue to organize most passionately to limit the influence of this heterogeneity on our curricula and classroom culture. Classroom…
“Birds of Many Colors”
In the 1970s, bilingual education expanded with unforeseen energy and made major gains in state and federal policy. Exemplifying such strides was the grass-roots and progressive San Jose-based Studio Lab founded by Ernesto Galarza, who had already established a reputation as an activist and Latin America expert. Though dismantled by the early 1980s, the Studio Lab made a lasting impression, both in explicitly connecting bilingual education to mul…
HealthClass2.0
Campbell F. Scribner. The Fight for Local Control
Few icons in U.S. history have greater symbolic power than the “little red schoolhouse.” Standing in as rhetorical shorthand for rural America and its values, it inspires ambivalent associations, as Jonathan Zimmerman elaborated in a slim volume on the symbol, Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory (2009). Signifying both a simpler and bucolic yesteryear of shared values and community participation in educational affairs, …
From Performance to Participation
Bien que seul∙e un∙e Américain∙e sur cinq fasse de l’exercice tous les jours comme il est recommandé et bien que toutes les statistiques existantes mettent en évidence le manque d’exercice à l’échelle de la population nationale, avoir une activité physique régulière est pourtant unanimement célébré aux États-Unis, non seulement pour les bénéfices sur la santé qu’une telle pratique apporte, mais aussi car il s’agit d’un symbole de discipline, de r…
The Siren Song of Yoga”
Yoga writ large helps illuminate the nature and the limits of evolving countercultures. Yoga in the 1960s and 1970s United States operated as a crucial vehicle for expressing critiques of patriarchy and sexual repression. Expressive forms of sexuality became pervasive in yoga culture, symptoms of the increased discursive and physical openness of the sexual revolutions. The broad-ranging spirituality associated with yoga often challenged rigid rel…
Fit Nation
Fit Nation
Working Out a New Relationship to Objectivity, Experience, and Engaged Scholarship
As historians, our work becomes both easier and more difficult when we select topics in which we are personally involved, or causes about which we care passionately. A primer for activist scholars, this essay offers eight insights for those who seek to contemplate, and question, scholarly convention rather than uncritically uphold it, drawing on the author’s experience as a health activist and her writing on the history of fitness. This essay is …
Forum
At the request of PHR, the four historians in this forum discuss methods for feminist history. Drawing on their experiences as scholars and individuals, each author considers their personal experiences with creating feminist history, given their unique fields and positionalities; and they also offer prescriptions for future scholars. In the opening essay, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu discusses methodological insights gleaned over multiple projects as a biogr…
How Do AHA’s Findings Square with the History of Teaching Controversial Issues
Despite incendiary headlines about the controversies apparently inflaming the teaching of history to American children, a new report by the American Historical Association finds that the most pressing issue for the vast majority of secondary school history teachers is not managing such raging conflicts.On the contrary, most of the three thousand history teachers interviewed in this self-reported study struggle to ignite interest in history, rathe…
The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden
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