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Amanda Seligman, Associate Professor

Office: Holton 331
Phone: (414)229-4565
E-mail: seligman@uwm.edu
Web Site: www.uwm.edu/~seligman

Degree:
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1999

Current Recent Interests:
Cities and suburbs in the postwar US
Chicago and Milwaukee
Community organizing
Public Policy
Racism

Current Teaching Interests:
Urban history
Poverty
20th-century US

Recent Publications:
Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago’s West Side (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005).

"The New Suburban History," in The Journal of Planning History 3 (November 2004), pp. 312-323.

"What is the Second Ghetto?" special 20th anniversary review of Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race & Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), in The Journal of Urban History 29 (March 2003), pp. 272-280.

"The Street Formerly Known as Crawford," Chicago History, 36-51 (Spring 2001).

"'Apologies to Dracula, Werewolf, Frankenstein': White Homeowners and Blockbusters in Chicago," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 70-95, special issue on race and housing in post-World War II Chicago (Spring, 2001).

Entries in The Encyclopedia of Chicago History, edited by James Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating and Jan Reiff (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming):

Blind Trusts Cabrini-Green

Community Areas Conservation Areas

Croatians East Garfield Park

Edgewater The Fight for Fortieth Street

Gold Coast Goose Island

K-Town Lake View

Lincoln Park Lincoln Square

Near North Side North Center

North Lawndale O'Hare Community Area

Old Town Race and Community Organizations in Austin

Ravenswood Sandburg Village

Skokie’s Border with Chicago Streeterville

Towertown Uptown

Washington Park Subdivision West Garfield Park

Woodlawn

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