Marybeth Gasman Associate Professor mgasman@gse.upenn.edu Dr. Gasman's web site

Education
1990: B.A. Political Science, St. Norbert College
1992: M.S. Higher Education, Indiana University
2000: Ph.D. Higher Education (minor in law), Indiana University

Professional Biography
After ten years in college and university administration, Dr. Gasman received a Ph.D. in higher education from Indiana University in 2000. She came to Penn GSE as an assistant professor in 2003.  In 2006, Dr. Gasman was awarded the Association for the Study of Higher Education's Promising Scholar/Early Career Award for her scholarship.

Dr. Gasman is a historian of higher education. Her work explores issues pertaining to philanthropy and historically black colleges, black leadership, contemporary fundraising issues at black colleges, and African-American giving. Dr. Gasman’s most recent book is Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund. She has published several other books, including Charles S. Johnson: Leadership beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow (with Patrick J. Gilpin), Supporting Alma Mater: Successful Strategies for Securing Funds from Black College Alumni (with Sibby Anderson-Thompkins), Uplifting a People: African American Philanthropy and Education (with Kate Sedgwick), and Gender and Philanthropy: New Perspectives on Funding, Collaboration, and Assessment (with Alice Ginsberg). Dr. Gasman has two forthcoming books entitled Understanding Minority Serving Institutions (with Benjamin Baez and Caroline Turner) and Philanthropy, Fundraising, and Volunteerism in Higher Education (with Andrea Walton).

Gasman, M. (2007). Truth, generalizations, and stigmas: An analysis of the media’s coverage of Morris Brown College and Black colleges overall. Review of Black Political Economy, 34(2).

Gasman, M. (2006). Salvaging ‘academic disaster areas’: The Black college response to Christopher Jencks’ and David Riesman’s 1967 Harvard Educational Review article. Journal of Higher Education, 77(2).

Gasman, M., & Payton Stewart, L. (2006). Twice removed: A White scholar studies Black sororities and a Black scholar responds. International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 29(2).

Gasman, M., Anderson-Thompkins, S. & N. Haydel. (2006). Corridors and coffee shops: Teaching about race and research outside the classroom. Journal of College and University Teaching, 17(1/2).

Epstein, E., & Gasman, M. (2005). A not-so-systematic effort to study art: Lincoln University and the Barnes Foundation. Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, 24.

Gasman, M. (2005). The role of faculty in fundraising at Black colleges: What is it and what can it become? International Journal of Educational Advancement, 5(2).

Gasman, M., Gerstl-Pepin, C., Anderson-Thompkins, S., Rasheed, L., & K. Hathaway. (2004). Developing trust, negotiating power: Transgressing race and status in the academy. Teachers College Record, 106(4).

Gasman, M. (2004). Convincing words: Fundraising language used by the United Negro College Fund in the aftermath of the Brown decision. History of Education Quarterly, 44(1).

Gasman, M., & Anderson-Thompkins, S. (2003). A renaissance on the Eastside: Motivating inner-city youth through art. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 8(4).

Gasman, M. (2002). A word for every occasion: Appeals by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to white donors on behalf of the United Negro College Fund. History of Higher Education Annual.

Gasman, M. (2002). W.E.B. Du Bois and Charles S. Johnson: Opposing views on philanthropic support for black higher education. History of Education Quarterly, 42(4).

Gasman, M., & Epstein, E. (2002). Modern art in the Old South: The role of the arts in Fisk University’s campus curriculum. In Educational Researcher, 4(2). 

Gasman, M. (2002). An untapped resource: Bringing African Americans into the college and university giving process. The CASE International Journal of Educational Advancement, 2(3).

Gasman, M. (2001). Charles S. Johnson and Johnnetta Cole: Successful role models for fundraising at historically black colleges and universities. The CASE International Journal of Educational Advancement, 1(3).

Gasman, M. (1999). Scylla and Charybdis: Navigating the waters of academic freedom at Fisk University during Charles S. Johnson’s administration (1946-1956). American Educational Research Journal, 36(4).