Linda Eisenmann is Emeritus Professor of Education and former Provost at Wheaton College, Massachusetts. In addition to Wheaton, she has recently taught graduate students at the University of Massachusetts Boston and at UMass Lowell, where courses have included Gender and Education, Administration and Governance in Higher Education, and Policy in Higher Education. 

Earlier in her career, Eisenmann was a founding faculty member of two UMass Boston doctoral programs: Higher Education Administration and Leadership in Urban Schools. Holding a doctorate in educational history from Harvard University, she is a historian interested in the social context of education, particularly women, historiography, the teaching profession, and the history of gender. 

Former president of both the History of Education Society and the Association for the Study of Higher Education, she has chaired editorial boards of the Harvard Educational Review and the Journal of Higher Education. Publications include Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965 (Johns Hopkins, 2006) and more recently, “Historical Considerations of Women and Gender in Higher Education: A Review of the Literature,” in Higher Education Handbook of Theory and Research (2023) and “Women, Colleges, and World War II – What Do We Think We Know?” in 23 Myths About the History of American Schools (2023). 

In addition to professorships, she has administered a research center at Harvard University and served as dean of Arts and Sciences at John Carroll University in Ohio.