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Ohio State is in the process of revising websites and program materials to accurately reflect compliance with the law. While this work occurs, language referencing protected class status or other activities prohibited by Ohio Senate Bill 1 may still appear in some places. However, all programs and activities will be administered in compliance with the law as of June 27, 2025.Jackie Blount

Faculty Emeritus, Department of Educational Studies
Program Area: Philosophy and History of Education
(614) 292-3552
blount.36@osu.edu
Education
- PhD, Education (Social Foundations), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- MAT, Science Education (Physics), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- BMEd, Music (French Horn), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests
- Educational Administration
- History of Education
- Educational leadership and administration
- Gender and sexuality
- LGBTQ+ Studies
- Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education (Philosophy of Education)
- Women's Studies
Selected Publications
Books
- Jackie Blount (In progress). Freedom for the Teacher: The Life and Thought of Ella Flagg Young.
- Antoinette Errante, Jackie Blount, and Bruce Kimball, eds. (2017). Philosophy and History of Education: Diverse Perspectives on Their Value and Relationship. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
- Jackie Blount (2005). Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
- Jackie Blount (1998). Destined to Rule the Schools: Women and the Superintendency, 1873-1995. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Articles
- Jackie Blount (2018). “Individuality, Freedom, and Community: Ella Flagg Young’s Quest for Teacher Empowerment,” History of Education Quarterly 58, 2: 1-24.
- Jackie Blount (2017). “Ella Flagg Young and the Gender Politics of Democracy and Education,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 16, 4: 409-423.
- Jackie Blount (2016, December). “Controlling Sex: Modern Histories of Sex Education.” Reviews in American History 44, 4: 611-20.
- Marilyn Tallerico and Jackie Blount (2004). "Women and the Superintendency: Insights from Theory and History," Educational Administration Quarterly 40, 5: 633-662.
- Jackie Blount (2004). "From Exemplar to Deviant: Same-Sex Relationships among Women Superintendents, 1909-1976," Educational Studies 35, 2: 103-128.
- Jackie Blount (2003). "Homosexuality and School Superintendents: A Brief History," Journal of School Leadership 13, 1: 7-26.
- Jackie Blount (2000). "Spinsters, Mollycoddles, and Other Gender Transgressors in School Employment, 1850-1990," Review of Educational Research 70(1): 83-101.
- Jackie Blount (1999). "Manliness and the Construction of Men's and Women's Work in Schools, 1865-1941," International Journal of Leadership in Education 2(2): 55-68.
- Jackie Blount (1996). "Manly Men and Womanly Women: Deviance, Gender Role Polarization and the Shift in Women's Educational Employment, 1900-1976," Harvard Educational Review (Summer): 318-38.
Book Chapters
- Jackie Blount (2017). “The Mutual Intellectual Relationship of John Dewey and Ella Flagg Young: Contributions to Education Series, 1901-1902.” In Philosophy and History of Education: Diverse Perspectives on Their Value and Relationship, edited by Antoinette Errante, Jackie Blount, and Bruce Kimball. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 27-38.
- Jackie Blount (2015). "Teachers and Other Educators." In AERA Report: Research on LGBTQ Issues in Education. Washington, DC: AERA.
- Jackie Blount (2013). "Educational Leadership through Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice and Educational Leadership for the Privilege Imperative: The Historical Dialectic." In Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Diversity and Equity, eds. James Scheurich and Linda Tillman. NY: Routledge.