#  Prof. Julie A. Reuben 

Program Director

Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education

 

 

 



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 email [julie\_reuben@gse.harvard.edu](mailto:julie_reuben@gse.harvard.edu) 

 



 

Julie Reuben is the Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education and the faculty director of the Phillips Brooks Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship at Harvard University. She is a historian of American Higher Education and the development of the modern research university, the re-orientation of American higher education to focus on strengthening democracy in the middle of the twentieth century, and the impact of student activism in the 1960s. She is interested in how the relation between higher education and society has changed over time and is concerned about how, over the past couple of decades, that relationship has become increasingly frayed. As higher education has become more focused on private purposes, the public has become increasingly distrustful of it. She writes about these contemporary issues in the *Chronicle of Higher Education* and other publications.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Role
    
     [Program Leadership](/role/program-leadership)