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All meetings are held on Saturdays from 2pm to 4pm at the Newberry, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois.
The group is sponsored by The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago.
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 email and must be requested in advance. If you are interested in presenting or would like to attend, please contact the Scholl Center at scholl@newberry.org.
Aram Sarkisian, Northwestern University, serves as coordinator for 2017-2018.
The Urban History Dissertation Group 2017-2018 Call for Proposals is now CLOSED. Proposals for 2018-2019 will be OPEN on March 1, 2018. Click here for a pdf of the Urban History Dissertation Group Proposal brief. To submit a proposal, please visit our webform and upload a one-page proposal, a statement explaining the relationship of the paper to your other work, and a brief CV. Applications will not be accepted via email or in hard copy.
The group is open only to graduate students (no faculty), and members should be committed to attending as many of the meetings as possible.