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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

Other Relevant Activities:
Director, Urban Studies Programs

Recent Publications:
"Producing the North American Metropolitan Landscape," in The Journal of Urban History 34 (May 2008), pp. 695-703.

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.

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