Assistant Professor
Educational Foundations and Inquiry

559 Education
Office: 419-372-9549
Email: cjfrey@bgsu.edu

Education

Ph.D., History, Philosophy and Policy Studies
Indiana University-Bloomington, 2007
Dissertation Title: Ainu Schools and Education Policy in Nineteenth-Century Hokkaido, Japan

M.A., East Asian Studies
Indiana University-Bloomington, 2006

M.S., Comparative Education
Indiana University-Bloomington, 2003

B.A., History, Political Science
Indiana University-Bloomington, 1994

Courses Taught

• EDFI 408: Education in a Pluralistic Society
• EDFI 602: History of Education
• EDFI 689: Internship in Cross-Cultural Education

Areas of Research Interest

• Comparative Histories of Indigenous Schooling
• Minority and Immigrant Education Policy
• 19th Century Navajo and Ainu Schooling
• Cross-Cultural Teaching
• Geography of Education

Recent Publications

Winstead, T., A. Lawrence, E. J. Brantmeier and C. J. Frey. (Accepted for publication). Language, Sovereignty, and the Cultural Contestation for Navajo Schools in the Era of No Child Left Behind. Journal of American Indian Education.

Ortloff, J. D. and C. J. Frey. (2007). Blood Relatives? Citizenship, Immigration, and Language Education Policies in Germany and Japan.Comparative Education Review 51, no. 4 (November).

Stachowski, L. L. and C. J. Frey. (2005) Student Teachers' Reflections on Service and Learning in Navajo Reservation Communities: Contextualizing the Classroom Experience, School Community Journal 15, no. 2.             

Selected Awards

Japan Ministry of Education (Monbukagakusho) Graduate Research Fellowship. 18 month research grant: JP¥3,940,000 (US$32,800).
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, 2005-2007

http://www.chicago.us.emb-japan.go.jp/JIC/monbusho.html

Association of Teacher Educators (Indiana) Anne Patterson Award
Outstanding Graduate Student Research Paper, 2004:

Recasting Roles: Student Teachers from the Midwest Reflect on Gender in Navajo Reservation and Home Communities.

Professional Services            

• Board Member, Educational Policy Analysis Archives, Jan. 2005-present.http://epaa.asu.edu/
• List Editor, H-Education, History of Education Discussion List, Part of H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Oct. 2005 – present. http://www.h-net.org/~educ/

Committee Service at BGSU:

• International Comparative Education (ICE) Center Advisory Committee
• ICE Center Core Faculty Committee
• Multicultural Initiatives Committee, EDHD
  
• Asian Studies Advisory Committee
• Master's in Cross-Cultural and International Education (MACIE) Steering Committee
• MACIE Admissions Committee
• Director, Shelbyville Consolidated Schools ESL Outreach Project

Fall 2003-Summer 2005:

Organized and implemented outreach project for international and immigrant students, school faculty and community members in a rural Indiana city.