The Newberry Library Urban History Dissertation Group
2005-2006 Schedule
All meetings
take place on Saturdays at 3:00 pm, at the Newberry Library
September 10, 2005 - Whitefish
Bay
Christopher Miller, Marquette University
October 8,
2005 - Organizing Chicago's "Silent Majority": The Citizens Action
Program, the Midwest Academy and the "New Urban Populism",
1969-1975
Steve Hagemann, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
November 12, 2005 - "The Things
that Truly Last"? Privatist Planning, Social Mobility, and the (un)Churching of
Philadelphia
Tom Rzeznik, University of Notre Dame
December
10, 2005 - D.L. Moody: Revivalism, the Self-Made Man, and the
YMCA
Justin Pettegrew, Loyola University
January 14, 2006
- Negotiating Modern Life at the Urban Periphery: The Development of the
Industrial Suburb of East Chicago, Indiana, 1860-1960
Tamsen Anderson,
University of California at Berkeley
February 11, 2006 - The
Test of Democracy
Sarah Hardin, University of Kentucky
March 11, 2006 - "For the Money There Is
In It:" Chicago Civil War Attractions During the 1890s
Jennifer Bridge,
Loyola University
April 8, 2006 - The Great Books in
Chicago and Beyond, 2001-Present
Tim Lacy, Loyola University
May 13, 2006 - Environmental History of
Milwaukee County
Steve Servais, Marquette University
This is a monthly workshop in which graduate students studying urban history issues present to their peers works-in-progress from their dissertations. Papers are pre-circulated by e-mail and must be requested in advance. If you are interested in presenting or would like to attend, please contact Christopher Miller christopher.miller@marquette.edu or Tim Lacy tim_lacy@hotmail.com
The group is open only to graduate students (no faculty), and members should be committed to attending as many of the meetings as possible.