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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

James E. Ryan is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research spans across the fields of Arts and Humanities as well as Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Political Science and International Relations, Religious Studies, Literature and Literary Theory, History and Philosophy of Science, and History.

Their recent publications cover diverse topics related to American culture, literature, and religion. Notable papers include:

  • Melville's Wisdom: Religion, Skepticism, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America (2022, Resources for American Literary Study)
  • The House of Harper: Melville's Anti-Catholic Publisher (2020, Book history)
  • A Language of Things: Emanuel Swedenborg and the American Environmental Imagination (2021, Journal of American History)
  • Antebellum America for German Immigrants: Thérèse Robinson von Jacob and Talvi's The Exiles (1853) (2021, Comparative American Studies An International Journal)
  • Ingrained Habits: Growing Up Catholic in Mid-Twentieth-Century America (2020, Journal of American Ethnic History)

James E. Ryan's work engages with themes such as American constitutional law and politics, religion, gender, Enlightenment thought, literature history and analysis, and Catholicism within religious studies. Their research topics are also tied to historical perspectives on race, society, and the history of science and medicine.

Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Journal of American History
  • Resources for American Literary Study
  • Book history
  • Comparative American Studies An International Journal
  • Journal of American Ethnic History

They have contributed extensively to the scholarly discourse on the intersections of religion and literature, as well as on sociopolitical developments in American history. Their studies combine literary theory with historical and cultural analysis.

James E. Ryan has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2019, an award that marks distinction within the academic community.

Best Publications

  • Inclusive Leadership and Social Justice for Schools

    James Ryan

  • Schooling for Change: Reinventing Education for Early Adolescents

    Lorna Earl;Andy Hargreaves;Jim Ryan

  • A Controlled Trial of an Educational Program to Prevent Low Back Injuries

    Lawren H. Daltroy;Maura D. Iversen;Martin G. Larson;Robert Lew

  • The Political Economy of School Choice

    James E Ryan;Michael Heise

  • Leading Diverse Schools

    James Ryan

  • Promoting Social Justice in Schools: Principals' Political Strategies.

    James Ryan

  • The Perverse Incentives of the No Child Left Behind Act

    James E. Ryan

  • Occupational risks associated with cigarette smoking: a prospective study.

    J. Ryan;Craig S. Zwerling;E. J. Orav

  • Strategic Activism, Educational Leadership and Social Justice.

    James Ryan

  • Educational Administrators' Perceptions of Racism in Diverse School Contexts

    James Ryan

  • Critical leadership for education in a postmodern world: emancipation, resistance and communal action

    James Ryan

  • Five Miles Away, A World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America

    James E. Ryan

  • Teaching and Social Support: Effects on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors to Prevent Low Back Injuries in Industry

    Lawren H. Daltroy;Maura D. Iversen;Martin G. Larson;James Ryan

  • Struggling for Democracy: Administrative Communication in a Diverse School Context

    James Ryan;Cindy Rottmann

  • Occupational Injuries: Comparing the Rates of Male and Female Postal Workers

    Craig Zwerling;Nancy L. Sprince;James Ryan;James Ryan;Michael P. Jones

  • Observing and Normalizing: Foucault, Discipline, and Inequality in Schooling

    James Ryan

  • Costs and benefits of preemployment drug screening.

    Craig Zwerling;James Ryan;E. John Orav

  • Schools, Race, and Money

    James E. Ryan

  • A Political History of the Establishment Clause

    John C. Jeffries Jr.;James E. Ryan

  • Educational Policy and the Law

    Mark G. Yudof;Betsy Levin;Rachel F. Moran;James E. Ryan

  • Standards, Testing, and School Finance Litigation

    James E. Ryan

  • Restructuring First Nations’ Education: Trust, Respect and Governance

    James Ryan

  • Smith and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: An Iconoclastic Assessment Notes

    James E. Ryan

  • "Brown," School Choice, and the Suburban Veto

    James E. Ryan

  • A Constitutional Right to Preschool

    James E. Ryan

  • The Supreme Court and voluntary integration

    James E. Ryan

  • Economic Development and Innu Settlement: The Establishment of Sheshatshit.

    James J. Ryan

  • Towards a New Age in Innu Education: Innu Resistance and Community Activism

    James Ryan

  • The Neutrality Principle.

    James E. Ryan

  • Foreword to Symposium on School Finance Litigation: Emerging Trends or New Dead Ends?

    James E. Ryan

  • "Paying" for the Change: Using Eminent Domain to Secure Exactions and Sidestep Nollan and Dolan

    Douglas T. Kendall;James E. Ryan

  • Flexibility and Accountability in Public Education

    James E. Ryan

  • Change, Control, and Research Methodology in Native Education: A Response to Folds

    James Ryan

  • Charter Schools and Public Education

    James E. Ryan

  • The Legal Boundaries of Educational Governance

    James E. Ryan

  • Justice Scalia’s Unoriginal Approach to Race and Gender in Education

    James E. Ryan

  • The Chief as Teacher

    James E. Ryan

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank H. Ruddle
Frank H. Ruddle Yale University
Andy Hargreaves
Andy Hargreaves Boston College
R. S. K. Chaganti
R. S. K. Chaganti Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Izhar Oplatka
Izhar Oplatka Tel Aviv University
James P. Spillane
James P. Spillane Northwestern University

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