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Rebecca Scofield Assistant Professor of American History University of Idaho Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I am currently completing my book project, tentatively titled Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringe of the American West, which investigates various marginalized rodeo communities over the course of the twentieth century. My project asks how […]
Read MorePeter Siskind, Ph.D. Assistant Professor & Chair, Department of Historical & Political Studies, Arcadia University Executive Director, Urban History Association Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I’ve been exploring the politics of development in the cities, suburbs, and recreational vacationlands of the post-World War II northeast corridor from Boston to Washington, […]
Read MoreClaudio Daflon @claudiodaflon Doctoral Candidate in History University of Connecticut Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? My dissertation is about the expansion of the national university system towards the metropolitan municipalities of the Gran Buenos Aires. It questions how this process relates to the urbanization and transformation processes experienced in the […]
Read MoreCarmen C. M. Tsui, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? Growing up in Hong Kong, I was always fascinated that such a tiny city can accommodate a population of 7 million people. Nevertheless, I have a fundamental […]
Read MoreMauricio Castro, PhD @CastroHistorian Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South Duke University Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I am in the process of converting my dissertation, “Casablanca of the Caribbean: Cuban Refugees, Local Power, and Cold War Policy in Miami, 1959-1995,” into a book manuscript. Like […]
Read MoreAlexia Yates Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of History, University of Manchester Also an affiliate at the Manchester Urban Institute and the Center for History and Economics, Harvard University @alexia_yates Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I’ve just finished an article that I’ve been working on for some time about the way […]
Read MoreBarry Goldberg, Ph.D. (2017) Department of History, CUNY Graduate Center @bpg269 Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? My project examines Jewish politics on the Lower East Side since the 1960s. I utilize congressional and municipal papers, court records, articles from the ethnic press, and quantitative voting data to examine how an […]
Read MoreTimothy J. Lombardo, PhD Assistant Professor Department of History, University of South Alabama Twitter: @TimLombard0 Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I am currently finishing my first book. It is a study of post-World War II Philadelphia and the blue-collar supporters of 1960s police commissioner turned 1970s mayor, Frank Rizzo. The […]
Read MoreNichole Nelson Ph.D. Candidate Department of History, Yale University Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? My dissertation examines how communities that choose to intentionally racially integrate in order to increase property values can serve as potential models to achieve racial residential integration nationwide. The methods that small, suburban communities have adopted […]
Read MoreRobert B. Fairbanks, PhD University of Texas at Arlington Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I am currently researching the growth of the so-called suburban cities of the Southwest. One of the hallmarks of modern metropolitan America after World War II is the growth of huge suburban cities. Currently, Mesa, Arizona, […]
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