Black and white portrait of Jackie Blount with long wavy hair, glasses, wearing a black button-up shirt, arms crossed, smiling gently, against a dark background.

I’m professor emeritus in the Department of Educational Studies at the Ohio State University (OSU). There, I taught a variety of history of education courses. I’ve also written several books as well as numerous articles and chapters, some of them described or linked on this site. I’m honored to have been awarded the American Educational Research Association’s Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award (2023), teaching awards including OSU’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching (2019) and Iowa State University’s Early Achievement in Teaching Award (1997), and the Faculty Impact Award for the OSU College of Education and Human Ecology (2023). I’ve also served as senior associate dean of OSU’s College of Education and Human Ecology and President of the History of Education Society (2017).

Education

  • PhD (Social Foundations of Education), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993.

  • MA Teaching (Physics), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1989.

  • BM(usic) Ed., (Instrumental music—horn), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983.

A girl (Blount) with hair standing up, holding a metal rod near a Van de Graff generator.

And a bit more….

Science has always fascinated me.

A young woman (Blount) with glasses, shoulder-length hair, wearing a sweater vest over a shirt, standing in front of a blackboard with her arm extended, as she teaches or presents.

I began my education career by teaching high school physics in NC.

A woman (Blount) sitting on a chair in a classroom, holding a piece of paper in one hand and a water bottle in the other, wearing glasses and a vest.

And music has been essential to me—
from French horn….

…to bass
(with BeJae Fleming)

A young girl (Blount) sitting down holding a French horn, wearing a school band uniform.
Two musicians performing: a woman with curly hair playing an electric bass and anothe with short hair and glasses singing and playing an acoustic guitar, in a room decorated with framed pictures and a large Grateful Dead skull logo in the background.

Images:

  • The amazing Roger Feldhans took the photo of BeJae and me playing at Byron’s, Pomeroy, IA, 2014.

  • All other photos are from my personal collection.