As part of our commitment to sharing the work of graduate students and early-career researchers, one episode a month of Passing Notes will highlight the work of one of these scholars working in the history of education.

Today’s episode is a conversation with Rachel Rosenbergabout her dissertation research, which examines the policy of gender and sexuality of American public school teachers in the twentieth century. In particular, we're going to look at several "crises of masculinity" in the American teaching force from the 1950s through the 1970s. 

Rachel is a PhD candidate in history at Yale University, where she studies women and gender, political and education history. Before returning to graduate school, she worked for two years as a middle school teacher in Dallas, Texas. 

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