Petra Munro Hendry
  
 
Education
  
 


Ph.D. University of Oregon, 1991 (Education)

M. A. University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, l988 (Education)

B. A. University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign, l980 (History)
  
  Honors and Awards  
 

Preservation Honor Award for Education, Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation, 2006.
LSU Distinguished Faculty Award, 2005.
Outstanding Faculty Contribution Award, Women's and Gender Studies, LSU, 2001.
Professors of Curriculum, Honorary Society, 2000.
Tiger Athletic Foundation University Teaching Award, LSU, 1996.
Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Education , LSU, 1995.

 
  Representative Publications  
 

Hendry, P. & Edwards, J. (2009). Old South Baton Rouge: Roots of Hope. Lafayette, LA: Center for Louisiana Studies.

  
 

Crocco, M., Munro,P., & Weiler, K. (1999). Pedagogies of Resistance: Women Educator Activists 1880-1960. New York : Teachers College Press.

 
 

Munro, P. (1998). Subject to Fiction: Women Teachers' Life History Narratives and the Cultural Politics of Resistance. London : Open University Press.

 
 

Jipson, J., Munro, P., Victor, S., Froude-Jones, K., & Freed-Rowland, G. (1995). Repositioning Feminism and Education: Perspectives on Educating for Social Change. Westport , CT : Bergin and Garvey.

 
 

Hendry, P. (2008). Learning from Caroline Pratt. Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, 4, pp. 1-18.

Hendry, P. (2007). The Future of Narrative. Qualitative Inquiry, 12 (4). 487-499.

Hendry, P. (2005). Disrupting the Subject: Julian of Norwich and Embodied Knowing. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 21 (1), 95-108

Azzarito,L., Munro, P., Solmon, M. (2004). Unsettling the Body: The Institutionalization of Physical Activity at the Turn of the 20 th Century. QUEST, 56, (4), 337-397.

Adams, N. , Causey,T., Jacobs, M., Munro, P., Quinn, M. & Trousdale, A. (1998). Womentalkin': A Readers Theatre Performance of Teachers Stories. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 11, (3). 383-395.

Hendry, P. (2007). Engendering Wisdom: Listening to Kuan Yin & Julian of Norwich, in C. Eppert & H. Wang. Cross-Cultural Studies in Curriculum: Eastern Thought, Educational Insights. (pp. 207-227). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Munro, P. (1999). “Widening the Circle”: Jane Addams, Gender and the Re/Definition of Democracy. In M.S. Crocco & O.L. Davis Jr. (Eds.), “Bending the Future to Their Will”: Civic Women, Social Education, and Democracy (pp. 73-91). Boulder, Co: Rowman & Littlefield.

Munro, P. (1998). Engendering Curriculum History. In W. Pinar (Ed.), Curriculum: Toward New Identities (pp. 263-294) New York : Garland Press.

 
  Grants  
 

Old South Baton Rouge: A Community Portrait. ($4,000). 2008, Louisiana Publishing Initiative Grant. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

Assessing Sites of Historical Significance in Old South Baton Rouge ($20,000), 2005, Baton Rouge Area Foundation

Histories and Cultures of “Old” South Baton Rouge ($40,000) , 2004, Louisiana State University Interdisciplinary Research Grant.

Community Outreach Partnership Centers Grant ($33,616.00), 2002, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Enhancing Teacher Education Through Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Approach ($39,000), 1996, Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund, 8g Enhancement Grant.

Louisiana State University Faculty Research Grant ($4,000), 1995, Council on Research & Development.		  
  Courses  
  Critical Issues in Urban Education Policy and Research
Curriculum Theory
History, Culture and Education in Louisiana
History, Culture and Educational Policy in New Orleans 1727-2007
 
 
Contact info.
  
  Office: 204 Peabody Hall
Office Phone: 225/ 578-2556
Webpage : http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/%7Eedciweb/faculty/munro.html
E-mail: phendry@lsu.edu		  
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