2018 UHA Sessions

FRIDAY October 19 8:00 – 9:30 AM October 19 FRIDAY Session 1 • Fri. 8:00-9:30 am Session 4 • Fri. 8:00-9:30 am Questions of Heritage and Preservation Queer Urbanism in the Bay Area USC Conference 1A USC Conference 3A Erin Cunningham University of Florida Ryan Reft Library of Congress Imagining a Role for Community: Preserving Gay Liberation, the Military Industrial Complex, Everyday “Sacred” Spaces and Silicon Valley: The Story of “High Tech Gays” Stephanie Gray University of South Carolina “A Chapter of Compelling Romance”: Charleston Damon Scott Miami University During the Depression “You Can’t Build a Community with a Wrecking Ball”: The Queer Origins of the San Francisco GLBT Lucy Moore Quinn Evans Architects Regeneration, Reconnection, and Redemption in Community Center Winston-Salem’s Former R.J. Reynolds Tobacco District S.G. Yeros University of California-Berkeley Robin Williams Savannah College of Art and Design The Emergence of Queer Urbanism in the San Contested Infrastructure: The Economic and Social Francisco Bay Area, 1964-present Struggles over Street Pavement Chair and Commenter: Chair and Commenter: Clay Howard The Ohio State University Steven Conn Miami University, Ohio Session 5 • Fri. 8:00-9:30 am Session 2 • Fri. 8:00-9:30 am Labor History as Urban History Rethinking the City and the Grass Roots USC Banquet I USC Conference 1C Chris Hayes Rutgers University Mingqian Lu Texas A&M University Shijia Hutong Museum and the Struggles of Historic “This Union Won't Work with Nonunion Men”: Preservation Keeping Construction White in 1960s New York City Sarah Mass University of Michigan Catherine Koonar University of Toronto Planning for Informality “Civil War in Hersheytown”: The 1937 Sit-Down Komar Mohite Jawaharlar Nehru University Strike at the Hershey Chocolate Factory Current Trends in Urban Political Practices: The Jeffrey Leatherwood American Military University Case of Jantar Mantar Road, New Delhi The Quest for Streetcar Unionism in the Carolina Chair and Commenter: Piedmont, 1919-1922 Lena Suk University of Louisiana at Lafayette Chair and Commenter: Thomas Castillo Coastal Carolina University Session 3 • Fri. 8:00-9:30 am Columbia During the Reconstruction Era Session 6 • Fri. 8:00-9:30 am USC Conference 2A Environmental Issues in an Chair: Thomas Brown University of South Carolina Age of Austerity Christian Anderson University of South Carolina Hilton Carolina Wren A Reconstructed Campus: Learning and Life at the Thomas Doser University of Houston Intergrated University of South Carolina, 1873-77 “Life Is Raw Here”: Environmental Justice and the War Bradley Proctor Evergreen State College on Drugs in Houston's Acres Homes Neighborhood Farms, Towns, but not Cities: The Landscape of the Ku Klux Klan Violence in the Carolinas During Andrew Gutkowski University of South Carolina Reconstruction The Evolution of Environmental (In)-Justice in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1900 – 2000 Caitlin Verboon University of Maryland “The Pet Lam[b]s of Government”: Urban Relief Efforts Kevin McQueeney Georgetown University in Columbia, South Carolina, During Reconstruction “A Mecca for Those Ill and Disabled”: Flint Commenter: Goodridge Hospital and Black Healthcare in Ehren Foley South Carolina Dept of Archives and History Twentieth Century New Orleans FRIDAY October 19 8:00 – 9:30 AM October 19 FRIDAY Kara Schlichting Shannon Missick State University of New York-Albany Queens College, City University of New York Land of Plenty, Land of Want: Suburbanization, The Possibilities and Inequalities of Environmental Disinvestment, and Food Gentrification in New York City's Outer Boroughs Chair and Commenter: Chair and Commenter: Walter Greason Monmouth University Andrew Kahrl University of Virginia Session 10 • Fri. 8:00-9:30 am Session 7 • Fri. 8:00-9:30 am The Intellectual Underpinnings of Finance, Infrastructure, and Urban Form Urban Policing in 20th Century U.S. Hilton Yellow Jessamine Hilton Breakout II Chair: Aaron Shkuda Princeton University Chair: Melanie Newport University of Connecticut Jana Cephas Northeastern University Anne Gray Fischer Indiana University-Bloomington Fordist Urban Geographies: The Factory as City “Arrested with Colored Man”: Moral Rehabilitation Daniel Cumming New York University and Racial Segregation in Pre-World War II Boston Making a Healthy Jim Crow: Baltimore's Provident Matthew Guariglia University of Connecticut Hospital and the Capitalization of Black Healthcare “The Most Difficult Police Problem on Earth”: The New Michael Glass Princeton University York City Police Department Encounters Racial, Mortgaging the District: School Bonds and School Cultural, and Linguistic Difference, 1890-1920 Funds in Postwar Long Island Cyrus O'Brien University of Michigan Aaron Shkuda Princeton University Community Treatment, Community Surveillance: Securities Industry Automation and the Halfway Houses as Vectors of Punitive State Power Suburbanization of the Back Office Michael Stauch University of Toledo Commenter: Community Policing and the Carceral State Elizabeth Tandy-Shermer Loyola University Chicago in Detroit Commenter: Session 8 • Fri. 8:00-9:30 am Stuart Schrader Johns Hopkins University Roundtable: Rethinking Activism and Protest in 1960s and 1970s Chicago Hilton Banquet II Simon Balto University of Iowa Erik Gellman University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Amanda Seligman University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Elizabeth Todd-Breland University of Illinois-Chicago Moderator: Amanda Seligman University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Session 9 • Fri. 8:00-9:30 am New Perspectives on Urban Renewal Hilton Breakout I Michael Allen Washington University, Saint Louis Exaggerated Rumors of the Death of Modernism: The Legacy of Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis Vyta Baselice George Washington University Transforming the Jungle: Building Communities in Urban Renewal Films, 1950-1970 FRIDAY October 19 9:45 – 11:15 AM October 19 FRIDAY Session 11 • Fri. 9:45-11:15 am Jessica Elfenbein University of South Carolina The Chicago-Congaree Connection: Francis Beidler and The Politics of Preservation The Santee River Cypress Lumber Company, 1881-1914 USC Conference 1A Robert Greene II University of South Carolina Congaree and the Legacy of Reconstruction-Era Charles Lester Marian University, Wisconsin Land Ownership, 1868-2018 The Ongoing Struggle to Preserve the Legacy of Cincinnati's King Records Chair and Commenter: Thomas Lekan University of South Carolina Elihu Rubin Yale University Excavating the Armory: Public History, Place Attachment, and Preservation Session 14 • Fri. 9:45-11:15 am David Stanek University of Pennsylvania Race and Sexuality at the Crossroads of District Designation as a Means to Other Ends: A 1980s LGBTQ Urban Activism: San History of the Use of Historic Districts, 1970-2010 Diego, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles Nathaniel Walker and Patty Ploehn College of Charleston USC Conference 3A On the Loyalty of Slaves: Black History, White Supremacy, and Public Monuments in South Carolina Christina Carney University of Missouri Chair and Commenter: “Wide-Open Town”: Black Queer Women, Ehren Foley South Carolina Dept. of Archives and History Racialized Militarism and Alternative Spacemaking in mid-20th Century San Diego Session 12 • Fri. 9:45-11:15 am Rene Esparza University of Maryland-Baltimore County Play It Safe! The Racial Politics of HIV-Prevention and Policing the Urban Empire Anti-Violence Gay Activism in 1980s Minneapolis USC Conference 1C Nic John Ramos Brown University From Perverts to Politicians: Community Mental Saskia Coenen Snyder University of South Carolina Health, Anti-Poverty Funding, and Gay Pride Sensory Urban Experiences of War: Signs and Activism in Los Angeles, 1965-1986 Sounds in Nazi-Occupied Amsterdam Chair and Commenter: Mohamed Gamal-Eldin University of Massachusetts-Amherst New Jersey Institute of Technology Julio Capo Policing Port Sa'id's Streets: An Urban History of a Suez Canal City in the Late Nineteenth Century Session 15 • Fri. 9:45-11:15 am Dan Horner Ryerson University Urban History Futures? An Architecture of Crisis: Managing the Famine Migration Crisis in 19th-Century Montreal and Re-thinking the Urban Variable Liverpool USC Banquet I Satakshi Sinha Jawaharlar Nehru University Rethinking the “Urban”: Policing and Crime in Nancy Kwak University of California-San Diego Colonial Delhi The “Urban” in Histories of Global Capitalism Chair and Commenter: Rebecca Madgin University of Glasgow Tracy Neumann Wayne State University Urban Exceptionalism? Carl Nightingale University at Buffalo Session 13 • Fri. 9:45-11:15 am Cities as Creations and Creators of Large-Scale Historical Phenomena Congaree and the Cities: The Story of a Anthony Pratcher Brown University Southern Hinterland Civic Life and the Dialectic of Urban Scholarship USC Conference 2A Richard Rodger University of Edinburgh In Pursuit of the Indefinable? The Urban Variable Katherine Allen Historic Columbia “A Boatman for Private Sale”: African and African Reconsidered Americans in River Borne Commerce Between South Chair and Commenter: Carolina’s Two Capital Cities Richard Harris McMaster University FRIDAY October 19 9:45 – 11:15 AM October 19 FRIDAY Session 16 • Fri. 9:45-11:15 am Sahar Hosseini Rutgers University Beyond Materiality: Writing Urban History After the Healthcare at the Margins: Demanding Spatial Turn Care in an Age of Austerity Caitlin Moriarty University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Ordinary and Exceptional: Using Vernacular Hilton Carolina Wren Methods in Historic Preservation Daniel Manuel Rutgers University

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