Marybeth Gasman

Who is Marybeth Gasman?

Marybeth Gasman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and one of the leading authorities in the country on historically black colleges. Gasman is an historian of higher education and currently serves as the vice president of the history and historiography section of the American Educational Research Association and as the chair of the American Association of University Professor's Committee on HBCUs. In 2006, Dr. Gasman received the Association for the Study of Higher Education's Promising Scholar/Early Career Award, and in 2008 she won the Penn Excellence in Teaching Award.