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Brett L. Abrams Senior Archivist National Archives and Records Administration Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I am examining the role of visual arts in the development of Washington, D.C. during the twentieth century. My previous books examined the intersection between popular culture and urban history. Hollywood Bohemians looks at transgressive […]
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While I’m waiting for the newest batch of responses to roll into the UHA’s inbox, I wanted to share some thoughts on the first year-and-a-quarter of editing the Member of the Week series: First and foremost, I am unceasingly amazed at the generosity of UHA members. I have solicited just over 50 posts since we […]
Read MoreTopher Kindell Doctoral Candidate The University of Chicago Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? Broadly speaking, my research lies at the intersection of urbanization, commercial trade, race, and public health in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. My dissertation examines how medical professionals, legislators, indigenous Hawaiians, and East Asian migrants transformed Honolulu […]
Read MoreCynthia Heider M.A. Student in Public History, Temple University Digital Projects Assistant, Center for Digital Scholarship at the American Philosophical Society @comebackcities Describe your current public history project(s). What about it/them are you finding interesting, challenging, and rewarding? I suspect that some readers may be confused by or unfamiliar with the term “public history,” so […]
Read MoreJoseph Watson Ph.D. Candidate in the History and Theory of Architecture University of Pennsylvania School of Design Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I am currently wrapping up my dissertation. It’s a study of competing ideas about the future of metropolitan America during the 1930s. I focus primarily on two architectural projects, […]
Read MoreKim Phillips-Fein Associate Professor Gallatin School of Individualized Study and History Department, College of Arts and Sciences New York University Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I’m actually between major research projects now, which is a nice though sometimes anxiety-provoking place to be! I have been thinking about a lot of […]
Read MoreMason Williams Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Political Science Williams College @masonbwilliams Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I’m writing a book about how New York City rebuilt its public institutions in the wake of the 1975 Fiscal Crisis—looking especially at schools, policing, and public space. The era of New […]
Read MoreStacy Kinlock Sewell Professor of History and Assistant Dean, School of Arts and Sciences St. Thomas Aquinas College Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? My current research focuses on urban renewal in New York State. There has been much written on urban renewal in large cities generally and New York City […]
Read MoreNathaniel Holly PhD Candidate Lyon G. Tyler Department of History College of William & Mary Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? At the moment I am neck deep in my dissertation, which examines the urban experiences of Cherokees in the long eighteenth century. While early American historians have long noted the […]
Read MoreClaire Poitras Professor of Urban Studies and Scientific Director of the Villes Régions Monde Network INRS-Urbanisation Culture Société Montréal, Quebec, Canada Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? My areas of research include urban, suburban and metropolitan history. I am particularly interested in the built environment and urban technical networks and the […]
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