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Last published 2025
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Michael S. Hevel

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Associate Professor

Also affiliated: University of Iowa (2009–2012); South Arkansas Community College (2014)

Faculty Researcher

8 h-index 40 pubs 255 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Michael S. Hevel's research investigates the historical and contemporary experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals within higher education. His work examines the social, political, and legal contexts that have shaped these communities, particularly focusing on student activism and the development of support systems. Hevel has published on topics such as the role of student organizations in advocating for LGBTQ+ rights, the impact of university proximity and online learning on adult participation in higher education, and the historiography of gender in the study of LGBTQ+ college students. His research also explores the intersection of unemployment, university proximity, and community college enrollment in Arkansas. Hevel's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 8, 40 total publications, and 249 total citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 8
  • Publications: 40
  • Citations: 255

Selected Publications

  • Where Is Gender in the Historiography of LGBTQ+ College Students? (2025)
    History of Education Quarterly DOI OpenAlex
  • ’We Didn’t Think It Would be Well Received’: The Gay Alliance of Students’ Legal Victory over Virginia Commonwealth University, 1974–1976 (2023)
    Historia y Memoria de la Educación DOI OpenAlex
  • A Longitudinal Ecological Study of How Unemployment and University Proximity Shaped Adult Community College Enrollment in Arkansas from 1999 Through 2018 (2023)
    Community College Journal of Research and Practice 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Bridging the Distance? How Proximity and Online Learning Shape Communities’ Adult Participation in Public Universities (2022)
    The Journal of Continuing Higher Education 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A Life on the Middle West's Never-Ending Frontier (2020)
    The Annals of Iowa DOI OpenAlex
  • Trends in the Historiography of American College Student Life: Populations, Organizations, and Behaviors (2018)
  • Age and Academic Advising in Community Colleges: Examining the Assumption of Self-Directed Learning (2018)
    Community College Journal of Research and Practice 19 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Charles Dorn. For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017. 320 pp. (2018)
    History of Education Quarterly DOI OpenAlex
  • A Historiography of College Students 30 Years After Helen Horowitz’s Campus Life (2017)
    Higher education 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Developing a Bad Reputation: The Emergence of Student Affairs in College Novels (2017)
    Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks DOI OpenAlex
  • Carroll L. L. Miller and Anne S. Pruitt-Logan Faithful to the Task at Hand: The Life of Lucy Diggs Slowe. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2012. 500 pp. Paperback $29.95. (2015)
    History of Education Quarterly DOI OpenAlex
  • Deirdre Clemente. Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 208 pp. Cloth $29.95. (2015)
    History of Education Quarterly DOI OpenAlex
  • The Conservative Corner of the Liberal Academy? Fraternity/Sorority Membership, Politics, and Activism (2015)
    NASPA Journal 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Editors' Notes (2014)
    New Directions for Student Services DOI OpenAlex
  • Do Fraternities and Sororities Still Enhance Socially Responsible Leadership? Evidence From the Fourth Year of College (2014)
    NASPA Journal 17 citations DOI OpenAlex

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