MARGO ANDERSON
Professor: American History
(414) 229-3969, 4361
Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1978
Recent Publications and Research Interests:. Professor Anderson specializes in American social, urban
and women's history and has research interests in both urban history and the
history of the social sciences and the development of statistical data systems,
particularly the census. She has published several books on the U.S. Census
including Who Counts? The Politics of Census Taking in Contemporary America
(2001), coauthored with Stephen E. Fienberg. Her recent work has been on
statistical confidentiality, and statistics and human rights. See for example,
her recent article with William Seltzer, "Using Population Data Systems to
Target Vulnerable Population Subgroups and Individuals: Issues and Incidents,"
in Statistical Methods for Human Rights, Jana Asher, David Banks, and
Fritz S. Scheuren, eds. (2008). In 2006 she served as the President of the
Social Science History Association. Her Social Science History Association
Presidential Address,
“The Census, Audiences and Publics,” is available in
Social Science History
32:1 (Spring 2008), 1-18. With Victor Greene,
she will publish an edited volume of essays, Perspectives on Milwaukee's Past
(University of Illinois Press) in 2009.Dr. Anderson can be reached at http://www.uwm.edu/~margo
or margo@uwm.edu
Last updated March 20, 2009