Text Box: Amanda I. Seligman P.O. Box 413 seligman@uwm.edu Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (o) 414-229-4565 Milwaukee, WI 53201 Employment University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Fall 1999-present Associate Professor of History (tenured), 2005-present Assistant Professor of History, 1999-2005 Member, Graduate Faculty, Urban Studies Programs, 1999-present The Newberry Library, Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family and Community History, 1995-1999 Various titles, Research staff, The Encyclopedia of Chicago Education Ph.D. in History, Northwestern University, 1999 Advisor: Associate Professor Henry C. Binford A.B. in Classics, Princeton University, 1991 Publications Book: Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago’s West Side (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). Articles and Essays: “Producing the North American Metropolitan Landscape,” in The Journal of Urban History (forthcoming). “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. “Mapping Chicago By Names and Numbers: Neighborhoods, Wards, and Community Areas” in Origins: Newsletter of the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family & Community History and the Local & Family History Section at the Newberry Library, 4-5 (Fall 2001). “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). Encyclopedia Entries: “Urban Crisis,” in The Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, edited by Ray Hutchison (Sage Publications, forthcoming). “Blockbusting” and “Sears Tower” in The Encyclopedia of American Urban History, edited by David Goldfield (Sage Publications, forthcoming); entries accepted. “Community Organizing,” in The Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration, edited by Steven A. Reich (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006). “Community-Based Organizing,” in Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy, edited by Alice O’Connor and Gwendolyn Mink (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2004). Entries in The Encyclopedia of Chicago, edited by James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004):



Text Box: Blind Trusts Cabrini-Green Community Areas Conservation Areas Croatians East Garfield Park Edgewater 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 Ravenswood Race and Community Organizations in Austin Sandburg Village Skokie’s Border with Chicago Streeterville


Text Box: “Museum of Science and Industry,” in Dictionary of American History, 3rd edition, edited by Stanley I. Kutler (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, December 2002).


Text Box: Fort Dearborn Massacre Ghost Dance Montagnais-Naskapi Sachem


Book and Documentary Reviews:

 

Review of Kevin Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, eds., The New Suburban History,  (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006), in The Pacific Historical Review (in review).

 

Review of Kevin Kruse, White Flight:  Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism, (Princeton and Oxford:  Princeton University Press, 2005), in Urban History (forthcoming).

 

Review of Margaret Garb, City of American Dreams:  A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919 (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2005), in The Journal of American History (accepted for September 2006).

 

Review of Nathan Thompson, Kings: The True Story of Chicago’s Policy Kings and Numbers Racketeers:  An Informal History, (Chicago:  Bronzeville Press, 2003), in The Indiana Magazine of History (March 2006), pp. 51-53.

 

Review of Chicago:  City of the Century (PBS documentary), in The Indiana Magazine of History (December 2003), pp. 393-395.

 

Review of Robert G. Spinney, City of Big Shoulders:  A History of Chicago, (DeKalb:  Northern Illinois University, 2000), in The Indiana Magazine of History (December 2001), pp. 318-319.

 

“Two Societies, More Separate, More Unequal,” review of Fred R. Harris & Lynn A. Curtis, editors, Locked in the Poorhouse:  Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States (Lanham, Maryland, and Oxford, England:  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000), in H-Urban, August 31, 2001.

 

Review of Donald L. Miller, City of the Century:  The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1996), in Origins:  Newsletter of the Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family & Community History and the Local & Family History Section at the Newberry Library (Fall 1996).

 

Review of The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space, Robert Rotenberg and Gary McDonogh, eds. (Westport, CT:  Bergin & Garvey, 1993), in H-Urban, February 20, 1996.

 

Presentations, public appearances, and conferences

 

“Block by Block:  Chicago’s West Side in the Era of Richard J. Daley,” Boyd Memorial lecture, Department of History, Valparaiso University, April 11, 2006.

 

“Block by Block:  Chicago’s West Side in the Era of Richard J. Daley,” (invited lecture), Sociology Department Colloquium, Northwestern University, April 6, 2006.

 

Guest appearance on Eight-Forty-Eight, WBEZ (Chicago), June 21, 2005, discussing “West-side Neighborhoods”

 

“Considering Tocqueville, Alinsky, and Putnam:  Community-Based Organizing in Twentieth-Century Chicago,” seminar presentation at the Davis Center, Princeton University, February 26, 2004.

 

“Considering Tocqueville, Alinsky, and Putnam:  The History of Community-Based Organizing,” oral presentation to the Urban History Seminar of the Chicago Historical Society, February 12, 2004.

 

Respondent, panel on “Space and Community Identity,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History, Tenth National Conference on Planning History, St. Louis, Missouri, November 7, 2003.

 

Presenter, “Two Approaches to Urban Research in the Archives,” Urban Studies Student Forum, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 26, 2003.

 

Discussant, panel on “Race and Housing in America,” First Biennial Urban History Conference, Pittsburgh, September 2002.

 

Presenter, “Block by Block:  Racing Decay on Chicago’s West Side, 1948-1968,” History Department Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, September 21, 2001.

 

Chair, “Visualizing the Child’s Perspective in Progressive-Era Chicago:  A Different Lens,” Society for the History of Childhood and Youth Conference, Marquette University, July 2001.

 

Presenter, “Conversions and Neglect:  Housing Inspection in Chicago, 1945-1970,” panel on “Who Wanted Housing Reform?:  Chicago after World War II,” Great Cities Winter Forum, University of Illinois at Chicago, December 2000.

 

Presenter, “Conversions and Neglect:  Housing Inspection in Chicago, 1945-1970,” panel on “Who Wanted Housing Reform?:  Chicago after World War II,” 3rd National Policy History Conference, Bowling Green State University, June 2000.

 

Discussant, “The Challenges of Childhood:  Health, Public Housing, and New York City Graffiti,” Children in Urban America Conference, Marquette University, May 2000.

 

Discussant, “Race Relations and Urban Change,” Urban Studies 5th Annual Student Forum, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 2000.

 

Presenter, “White Stand and Fight in Postwar Chicago,” Illinois History Symposium, Springfield, Illinois, December 1998.

 

Presenter, “Blighted Buildings or Poor People:  Neighborhood Preservation on Chicago’s West Side, 1945-1970,” Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 1998.

 

Professional Service

 

Member, H-Urban Editorial Board, 2005-2007.

 

Urban History Association

· Local Arrangements Chair, 2004 meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

· Member, Program Committee, 2004 meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

· Member, Board of Directors, 2004-2006

 

Peer Reviewer:  Houghton-Mifflin Company; University of Illinois Press; American Studies; Journal of American History; Journal of Policy History, Journal of Urban History; Prentice Hall.

 

Co-Convener, Urban Studies Programs Reading Group, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2001-2003.

 

On-line course “Civil Society and Community Building,” through the Princeton University Alumni Council, spring 2003.

· Participant

· Guest Expert Preceptor for week 5, Community Organizing

 

Lecture, “Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement,” January 14, 2002, Wisconsin Career Academy (Charter School).

 

Organizer, Conversation on the implications of the events of September 11 for the scholarship and pedagogy of faculty and graduate students, September 28, 2001.

 

Presentation, “Sitting on the Other Side of the Table,” presentation for history graduate students on interviewing, Northwestern University, May 11, 2001.

 

Panelist, “Life as an Assistant Professor,” in 426-801-071 “Introduction to Academic Life,” Winterim 2001 and Spring 2002 course offered by Professor Dale Jaffe through the UWM Graduate School.

 

Presentation, “Community Organizing in Chicago History,” for Princeton Project ’55 interns, July 1997.

 

Graduate History Student Organization, Northwestern University, 1994-1995.

 

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

 

Fellow, Cultures and Communities, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2003-2004

University of Wisconsin System, Institute for Race and Ethnicity, $400 grant for Urban Studies Reading Group, 2003

Fellow, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2001-2002

Arts and Humanities Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Summer 2001 and Summer 2003

Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Graduate Fellow, 1996-1997

Illinois State Historical Association, King V. Hostick Award, 1996

Northwestern University, University Fellowship, 1992-1993

Princeton University

· Graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa

· Kurt Weitzmann Scholar of the Class of 1991

 

Additional Research Experience

 

The Newberry Library, January 1995-1996

Research Assistant to Frederick Hoxie, The Encyclopedia of North American Indians

 

Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1995-1997

Research Assistant to Henry C. Binford, The Invention of the Slum in America

 

“Blacks and Jews,” Snitow-Kaufman Productions, 1997

Researcher for Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman, Producers

 

Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, The Many Social Contexts of Early Adolescence Northwestern University, 1994

Research Assistant to Professor Thomas D. Cook, author

 

Courses Taught at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

 

Youth in American History (freshman seminar)

History of the American City (upper level undergraduate)

History of Poverty in America (upper level undergraduate)

American Suburban History (undergraduate capstone course)

The New Suburban History (graduate course, History)

The “Urban Crisis” in America (graduate course, History)

History of Urban Problems (MA level, History and Urban Studies)

Perspectives Toward Change in Urban Social Institutions (PhD level, Urban Studies)

 

Additional Teaching Experience and Preparation

 

Workshop Participant, “The Courage to Teach,” UWM Center for Instructional and Professional Development, Summer 2004.

 

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, semiannual reflection project, with colleagues at St. Xavier University and Colorado State University, 2002-2003.

 

UWM Center for Instructional and Professional Development, Spring 2003 program, “Exploring Student Learning.”

 

Freshman Scholars Seminar Retreat, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, January 2000.

 

Instructor, Northwestern University

· Chicago Field Studies, 1998-1999

· Chicago in American History: Advanced Research Seminar, Spring 1997

· The Windy City:  Chicago in American History, Summer 1996 and Spring and Summer, 1997

· Youth in American History, Fall 1995

 

Peer Review Participant, Department of History, Northwestern University, June 1998

 

Faculty Development Workshop Participant, Summer Session Office, Northwestern University, Spring 1996

 

Teaching Assistant Fellow, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, 1995

· Developed and conducted workshop to train new History Teaching Assistants

· Available as “History TAs,” Chapter 8, in Helping New TAs Teach Successfully:  A Collection of Workshops for New Teaching Assistants, edited by J.K. Norman, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, Volume 1 (Fall 1995).

 

Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University

· United States Civil War and Reconstruction, Fall 1995

· History of the United States, 1865 to the Present, Winter 1994 and Winter 1995

· History of the United States to 1865, Fall 1994

· Development of the Modern American City, Spring 1994

 

Colloquium Participant, Preparing Future Faculty, Northwestern University, 1994-1995

 

Professional Memberships

· American Historical Association

· Organization of American Historians

· Urban History Association

· Chicago History Museum