Assistant Professor
CONTACT
E-mail: Brian.Ingrassia at mtsu.edu
Phone: 615-494-7759
Office Location: Kirksey Old Main Room 103E
MTSU Box 23
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
COURSES TAUGHT:
2010: Survey of United States History I
2020: Survey of United States History II
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
U.S. cultural & intellectual, Progressive Era, higher education, sport, gender, history
of science, urban history
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
The Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education's Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time
Football (forthcoming March 2012, University Press of Kansas, CultureAmerica series)
"Public Influence inside the College Walls: Progressive Era Universities, Social
Scientists, and Intercollegiate Football Reform," The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 10:1 (January 2011): 59-88
"To 'rekindle embers of remembrance': Eureka's Recruiting Elm in Local Memory and
Global Perspective," Journal of Illinois History 12:2 (Summer 2009): 82-106
EDUCATION:
PhD & MA: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
BA: Eureka College, 2001