Constructed Space in the Hill District: Black Urban Appalachia and the Making and Remaking of Pittsburgh

January 30, 2023.Reading time 17 minutes.

Editor’s note: In anticipation of the Urban History Association’s 2023 conference being held in Pittsburgh from October 26 – October 29, The Metropole is making the Steel City its Metropolis of the Month for January 2023. The CFP remains open until February 20, 2023. See here for details. By Jessica Klanderud Years ago, as I […]

Scholar-Activist of the Month: Catherine Fosl

June 1, 2017.Reading time 13 minutes.

Catherine Fosl, Ph.D. Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Director, Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research College of Arts & Sciences, University of Louisville I entered the academy in the early 1990s after spending much of the 1980s working in journalism and community organizing. About the same time I graduated from college in […]