Scholarly Articles and Essays
How Do AHA’s Findings Square with the History of Teaching Controversial Issues? History of Education Quarterly March 2025
Working Out a New Relationship to Objectivity, Experience, and Engaged Scholarship Pacific Historical Review Summer 2024
Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past Basic Books January 2023
All (Sexual) Things in Moderation—And in Private Reviews in American History March 2022
EVERYTHING HAS A HISTORY: MUSCLE MOTION American Historical Association: Perspectives September 2021
From Performance to Participation: The Origins of the Fit Nation Transatlantica (France) March 2021
Navigating Social Media as an Academic The Academic's Handbook, 4th Edition Duke University Press, 2021
Review: The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II by Roger L. Geiger Pacific Historical Review November 2016
Shouldn’t You Be in California? BOOM California January 9, 2018
Working on the Work of Working Out Public Seminar January 3, 2018
Review: CAMPBELL F. SCRIBNER, The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy. American Historical Review October 2017
Thanks, Gender!: An Intellectual History of the Gym in eds., Raymond Haberski and Andrew Hartman, American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times, Cornell University Press, 2018.
When Wellness is a Dirty Word May 2016
Mission High and the Education Culture War LARB April 2016
REVIEW ESSAY: Do We Need Wonder Woman? Public Books May 2015
REVIEW ESSAY: “Petrzela on Perlstein, THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE: THE FALL OF NIXON AND THE RISE OF REAGAN”
https://nataliapetrzela.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/UANN_A_1058132_P-2.pdf Anthropology Now 2015
“Sex Education,” in Hunt, Thomas Carper, James C., et al, The Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent, SAGE Publications, 2010.
“Multiculturalism,” in Ness, Immanuel, ed., The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Wiley-Blackwell, Vol. IV, 2013
REVIEW ESSAY: “Robin Jensen, Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Sex Education, 1870-1924”
“The Siren Song of Yoga”: Sex, Spirituality and the Limits of American Countercultures
“’Sex Ed… and the Reds?’ Reconsidering the Anaheim Battle over Sex Education, 1962-1969,” History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 2, May 2007.
With Sarah Manekin, “The Accountability Partnership: Writing and Surviving in the Digital Age,” in Dougherty, Jack, and Nawrotzki, Kristin, eds., Writing History in the Digital Age, University of Michigan Digital Humanities Series, October 2013
Revisiting the Rightward Turn: Max Rafferty, Education, and Modern American Politics,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, Vol. 6, No.2, May 2014