Background and Credentials

Fall 2009 Schedule HP 100  Introduction to Historic Preservation HP 585 History of American Architecture US 620  Studies in US History:  Undermining a Sense of Place: The Suburban Ideal and the Decline of Downtown in Post World War II America Other Courses Offered  Study Break         Kent Library

Professional Information

Education:

Ph.D.	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Social History
M.H.P.	Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia Master of Heritage Preservation

Exploring the role of race and class in the city building process.

Book

Race, Class and Power in the Building of Richmond, 1870-1920.  Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland and Company Publishers, Inc., 2004.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Looking North:  A Mid-South Perspective on the Great Strike,” in The Great Strikes of 1877, David O. Stowell, (ed)(University of Illinois Press)(2008).

“Warning! Technology Can Be Dangerous to Your Health: A Case Study from the Trenches” (with Larry Easley and Joel Rhodes) Journal of the Association for History and Computing (Volume III, Number 1, May 2005).

"Progressive Public Health Administration in the Jim Crow South: A Case Study of Richmond, Virginia, 1907-1920," Journal of Social History (Fall 2001): 175-194.

"Reinventing the American History Survey," (with Larry Easley) in History.Edu: Essays in Teaching, Writing and Researching History, Dennis Trinkle and Scott Merriman, (eds.) M.E. Sharpe, 2001, pp. 62-71.

"The Decline of the Port of Richmond: The Richmond Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Commerce (volume 108, Number 3, 2000): 255-278.

"Creating the Electronic Classroom: A Practical Guide," (with Larry Easley) Journal of Social Education (Spring/Summer 2000): 80-93.

"The Main Street Program and Its Impact on Downtown Retailing" (with Judy Wiles), Proceedings of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (February 2000): 407-414.

"The Saga of Pittsburgh's Liberty Tubes: Geographical Partisanship on the Urban Fringe," Pittsburgh History 75 (Fall 1992): 128-141.

"'A Plan of Quality:' The Development of Mt. Lebanon, A 1920s Automobile Suburb," Journal of Urban History 18 (February 1992): 141-181.

Other Publications  

Review of The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840-1917. By Jon A. Peterson (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003) in Urban History, 32, 3 (2005): 535-536.

Review of Building the South Side:  Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919.  By Robin F. Bachin (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2004) in Journal of Social History (June 2006).

Review of American Towns: An Interpretive History. By David J. Russo (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001) in Journal of Social History (Summer 2005): 1111-1113.

Review of Martin V. Melosi, The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) in Journal of Social History, (September 2002): 194-196. 

Review of The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present.  By Martin V. Melosi (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) in APWA Reporter (American Public Works Association, March 2002): 19.

Dual Review of Kimberly Phillips, Alabama North: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-45 (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1999) and John Hartigan, Jr., Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999) in Journal of Social History (Fall 2001): 229-233.

"Mt. Lebanon," in Neil Larry Shumsky (ed.), American Cities and Suburbs: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc.), Spring 1999.

Review of Ronald H. Bayor, Race & the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolinia Press, 1996), in Journal of Social History, 31 (Summer 1998): 179-180.

Review of Richard Harris, Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900-1950 (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), in Journal of Social History, 31 (Spring 1998): 164-165.

Review of Christopher Silver and John Moeser, The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968 (Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 1995) in Journal of Social History, 30 (Spring 1997): 791-793.

Review of Alexander von Hoffman, Local Attachments: The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850-1920 (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994) in Journal of Social History, 29 (Fall 1995): 207-209.

"Warner and Urban History," The Urban History Newsletter (The Urban History Association), March 1995.

"Suburbanization," in Peter N. Stearns (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social History (New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc.), 1994.

"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Infrastructure," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 15, 1990, (with Joel A. Tarr), p. 11.