Urban History Association 2018 Draft Schedule Room Time Block Session Title Chair Chair Affiliation Commenter Commenter Affiliation Paper 1 Title Paper 1 Author Paper 1 Affiliation Paper 2 Title Paper 2 Author Paper 2 Affiliation Paper 3 Title Paper 3 Author Paper 3 Affiliation Paper 4 Title Paper 4 Author Paper 4 Affiliation Paper 5 Title Paper 5 Author Paper 5 Affiliation Regeneration, Reconnection, and Redemption in Winston-Salem’s Former R.J. Imagining a Role for Community: Preserving Everyday “Sacred” Contested Infrastructure: The Economic and Social USC Conference 1A Friday 8:00-9:30 Questions of Heritage and Preservation Steve Conn Ohio University Steve Conn Charleston During the Depression: "A Chapter of Compelling Romance" Stephanie Gray University of South Carolina Reynolds Tobacco District Lucy Moore Quinn Evans Architects Spaces Erin Cunningham University of Florida Struggles over Street Pavement Robin Williams Savannah College of Art and Design Current Trends in Urban Political Practices: The Case of Jantar Mantar Road, New USC Conference 1C Friday 8:00-9:30 Rethinking the City and the Grass Roots Lena Suk University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lena Suk Planning for Informality Sarah Mass University of Michigan Delhi Komar Mohite Jawaharlar Nehru University Shijia Hutong Museum and the Struggles of Historic Preservation Mingqian Lu Texas A&M University Farms, Towns, but not Cities: The Landscape of the Ku Klux Klan Violence in the "The Pet Lam[b]s of Government"L Urban Relief Efforts in Columbia, USC Conference 2A Friday 8:00-9:30 Columbia during the Reconstruction Era Thomas Brown University of South Carolina Ehren Foley South Carolina Dept of Archives and HistoryA Reconstructed Campus: Learning and Life at the Intergrated University of South Carolina, 1873-77 Katherine Chaddock University of South Carolina Carolinas during Reconstruction Bradley Proctor Evergreen State College South Carolina, during Reconstruction Caitlin Verboon University of Maryland “You Can’t Build a Community with a Wrecking Ball”: The Queer Origins of the San The Emergence of Queer Urbanism in the San Francisco Bay Area, USC Conference 3rd Floor Friday 8:00-9:30 Queer Urbanism in the Bay Area Clay Howard The Ohio State University Clay Howard “Gay Liberation, the Military Industrial Complex, and Silicon Valley: The Story of ‘High Tech Gays’” Ryan Reft Library of Congress Francisco GLBT Community Center Damon Scott Miami University 1964-present S.G. Yeros University of California-Berkeley "This Union Won't Work with Nonunion Men" - Keeping Construction White in 1960s USC Ballroom A Friday 8:00-9:30 Labor History as Urban History Thomas Castillo Coastal Carolina University Thomas Castillo "Civil War in Hersheytown": The 1937 Sit-Down Strike at the Hershey Chocolate Factory Catherine Koonar University of Toronto New York City Chris Hayes Rutgers University The Quest for Streetcar Unionism in the Carolina Piedmont, 1919-22 Jeffrey Leatherwood University of South Carolina USC Ballroom C All Day Book Exhibit "A Mecca for Those Ill and Disabled": Flint Goodridge The Evolution of Environmental (In)-Justice in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1900 – "Life Is Raw Here": Environmental Justice and the War on Drugs in Hospital and Black Healthcare in Twentieth Century New Hilton Carolina Wren Friday 8:00-9:30 Environmental Issues in an Age of Austerity Andrew Kahrl University of Virginia Andrew Kahrl The Possibilities and Inequalities of Environmental Gentrification in New York City's Outer Boroughs Kara Schlichting Queens College, City University of New York 2000 Andrew Gutkowski University of South Carolina Houston's Acres Homes Neighborhood Thomas Doser University of Houston Orleans' Kevin McQueeney Georgetown University Making a Healthy Jim Crow: Baltimore's Provident Hospital and the Capitalization of Mortgaging the DistrictL School Bonds and School Funds in Postwar Securities Industry Automation and the Suburbanization of Hilton Yellow Jessamine Friday 8:00-9:30 Finance, Infrastructure, and Urban Form Aaron Shkuda Princeton University Elizabeth Tandy-Shermer Loyola University Chicago Fordist Urban Geographies: The Factory as City Jane Cephas University of Michigan Black Healthcare Daniel Cumming New York University Long Island Michael Glass Princeton University the Back Office Aaron Shkuda Princeton University Hilton Palmetto Ballroom Friday 8:00-9:30 Rethinking Activism and Protest in 1960s and 1970s Chicago Gordon Mantler George Washington University Roundtable Amanda Seligman University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Elizabeth Todd-Breland University of Illinois-Chicago Erik Gellman University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Simon Balto University of Iowa Exaggerated Rumors of the Death of Modernism: The Legacy of Pruitt-Igoe in St. Transforming the Jungle: Building Communities in Urban Renewal Hilton Ballroom C Friday 8:00-9:30 New Perspectives on Urban Renewal Joseph Heathcott The New School for Social Research Joseph Heathcott Land of Plenty, Land of Want: Suburbanization, Disinvestment, and Food Shannon Missick State University of New York-Albany Louis Michael Allen Washington University, Saint Louis Films, 1950-70 Vyta Baselice George Washington University “The Most Difficult Police Problem on Earth”: The New York City Police Department Encounters “Arrested with Colored Man”: Moral Rehabilitation and Racial Segregation in Pre- Community Treatment, Community Surveillance: Halfway Houses as Hilton Ballroom D Friday 8:00-9:30 The Intellectual Underpinnings of Urban Policing in 20th Century U.S. Melanie Newport University of Connecticut Stuart Schrader Racial, Cultural, and Linguistic Difference, 1890-1920 Matthew Guariglia University of Connecticut World War II Boston Anne Gray Fischer Brown University Vectors of Punitive State Power Cyrus O'Brien University of Michigan Community Policing and the Carceral State in Detroit Michael Stauch University of Toledo District Designation as a Means to Other Ends: A History of the Use of Historic The Ongoing Struggle to Preserve the Legacy of Cincinnati's King On the Loyalty of Slaves: Black History, White Supremacy, USC Conference 1A Friday 9:45-11:15 The Politics of Preservation Ehren Foley University of South Carolina Ehren Foley Excavating the Armory: Public History, Place Attachment, and Preservation Elihu Rubin Yale University Districts, 1970-2010 David Stanek University of Pennsylvania Records Charles Lester Marian University, Wisconsin and Public Monuments in South Carolina Nathaniel Walker College of Charleston Policing Port Sa'id's Streets: An Urban History of a Suez Canal City in the Late An Architecture of Crisis: Managing the Famine Migration Crisis in Sensory Urban Experiences of War: Signs and Sounds in USC Conference 1C Friday 9:45-11:15 Policing the Urban Empire Tracy Neumann Wayne State University Tracy Neumann Rethinking the "Urban": Policing and Crime in Colonial Delhi Satakshi Sinha Jawaharlar Nehru University Nineteenth Century Mohamed Gamal-Eldin New Jersey Institute of Technology 19th-Century Montreal and Liverpool Dan Horner Ryerson University Nazi-Occupied Amsterdam Saskia Coenen Snyder University of South Carolina The Chicago-Congaree Connection: Francis Beidler and The Santee River Cypress Lumber “A Boatman for Private Sale”: African and African Americans in River Borne Congaree and the Legacy of Reconstruction-Era Land Ownership, USC Conference 2A Friday 9:45-11:15 Congaree and the Cities: The Story of a Southern Hinterland Thomas Lekan University of South Carolina Thomas Lekan Company, 1881-1914 Jessica Elfenbein University of South Carolina Commerce Between South Carolina’s Two Capital Cities Katherine Allen Historic Columbia 1868-2018 Robert Greene II University of South Carolina Race and Sexuality at the Crossroads of 1980s LGBTQ Urban Activism: “Wide-Open Town”: Black Queer Women, Racialized Militarism and Alternative Spacemaking in mid- Play It Safe! The Racial Politics of HIV-Prevention and Anti-Violence Gay Activism in From Perverts to Politicians: Community Mental Health, Anti-Poverty USC Conference 3rd Floor Friday 9:45-11:15 San Diego, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles Julio Capo University of Massachusetts-Amherst Julio Capo 20th Century San Diego Christina Carney University of Missouri 1980s Minneapolis Rene Esparza University of Maryland-Baltimore CountyFunding, and Gay Pride Activism in Los Angeles, 1965-1986 Nic John Ramos Brown University Cities as Creations and Creators of Large-Scale Historical InPursuitoftheIndefinable?TheUrbanVariable USC Ballroom A Friday 9:45-11:15 Urban History Futures? Re-thinking the Urban Variable Richard Harris McMaster University Roundtable The “Urban” in Histories of Global Capitalism Nancy Kwak UC San Diego Urban Exceptionalism? Rebecca Madgin University of Glasgow Phenomena Carl Nightingale University of Buffalo Civic Life and the Dialectic of Urban Scholarship Anthony Pratcher Brown University Reconsidered Richard Rodger University of Edinburgh "The nurse, the minister and an interested citizen"; Respectability and AIDS Work in Central and Saving a Hospital: Community Mobilization in North Philadelphia in Hilton Carolina Wren Friday 9:45-11:15 Healthcare at the Margins: Demanding Care in an Age of Austerity Kwame Holmes University of Colorado Boulder Kwame Holmes South Louisiana Daniel Manuel Rutgers University Organizing at the Intersections: Gay Men of Color Respond to HIV/AIDFS Dan Royles Florida International University the 1980s Alyssa Ribeiro Allegheny College Challenging Communal Colorblindness: The Struggle to Hilton Yellow Jessamine Friday 9:45-11:15 Black Property and White Capital Mehrsa Baradaran University of Georgia Mehrsa Baradaran Building Community: Race, Space, and Power in Gentrifying Brooklyn Amanda Boston Brown University Black Bond Politics Destin Jenkins University of Chicago Lien on Me: Tax Sales and the Transformation of the Sea Islands Andrew Kahrl University of Virginia Racially Integrate Shaker Heights, Ohio Nichole Nelson Yale University Equalization, Education, and Architecture during the Civil Rights Movement: Using Ordinary and Exceptional: Using Vernacular Methods in University of Wisconsin University of Wisconsin, Hilton Palmetto Ballroom Friday 9:45-11:15 UHA Vernacular Architecture Forum Panel: “Crossing into the Ordinary” James Buckley University of Oregon Arijit Sen University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Korean-Americans in Killeen, Texas: Building an Immigrant "Main Street" in the Shadow of Fort Hood Willa Granger University of Texas at Austin the Methods of Vernacular Architecture Research to Study School Desegregation Marta Gutman City College of New York Beyond Materiality: Writing Urban History After the Spatial Turn Sahar Hosseini Rutgers University Historic Preservation Caitlin Moriarty Milwaukee Mini-Malls in Milwaukee: Past and Present Joseph A. Rodriguez Milwaukee Chinese Performance in Postwar New York: Opera Clubs and the The Soldiers Next Door; The Militarization of Flushing Hilton Ballroom C Friday 9:45-11:15 Contested Terrain in New York City Sandy Zipp Brown University Sandy Zipp Robert Moses and the Bicycle: A New York Love (and Hate) Story Evan Friss James Madison University "Parks and People vs. Cars": The Forgotten Parking Revolt in New York City Owen Gutfreund City University of New York Reimagining of Chinatown Charles Starks City University of New York Meadow Park Daniela Sheinin University of Michigan Arreglando Casas: Mexican Migrants Rehabilitating Housing in Rehabilitating the City of Homes: Caught Between Growth Hilton Ballroom D Friday 9:45-11:15 Rehabilitating the Post-1960s City Aaron Shkuda Princeton Aaron Shkuda Rehabbing Housing, Rehabbing People: Harlem’s West 114th Street Project Brian D. Goldstein Swarthmore College Conserving Community: Housing Rehabilitation in Milton-Parc, Montreal Francesco Ammon University of Pennsylvania Chicago and Dallas since 1965 A. K. Sandoval-Strausz University of New Mexico Liberalism and White Backlash Zane Anthony Curtis-Olsen Bard High School Early College "If These Structures Could Speak: Retrieving the Memory of Institutions USC Conference 1A Friday 12:30-2:00 Established by African American Women in Columbia, SC" John Sherrer Historic Columbia John Sherrer Matilda Griffin Debbie Bloom Walker Local and Family History Center Ethel Martin Bolden Georgette Mayo Avery Research Center Dr. Matilda Arabella Evans Vennie Deas Moor Cross Cultural R & D Celia Mann and Ben Delane John Sherrer Historic Columbia Tianjin Modern: Development of a Flouishing Urban Culture in China USC Conference 1C Friday 12:30-2:00 Visual Cultures in Global Cities Anton Rosenthal University of Kansas Kristin Stapleton University at Buffalo Imageability and Absence in Postwar London Adam Page University of Lincoln, UK Cinematic City of Hyderabad: At the Crossroads of Utopia and Dystopia Deepthri Krishna Throta University of Hyderabad during the Early Republican Period Hong Zhang University of Central Florida Paths to Abattoir: Butchers, Enskillment, and Mobilities in Cities in Flux: Urban Change and Economic Life across the Indian Ocean, Networked Geographies of Rebellion: Port Cities, Insurgency, and Pacification in Colonia-Era Colonial Majunga, USC Conference 2A Friday 12:30-2:00 1890-1970 Eric Beverley State University of New York, Stony Brook Eric Beverley Southeast Asia Joshua Gedacht Rowan University A Life Aquatic: City and Science on the Bay of Bengal, 1909-1942 Anthony Medrano Harvard University Residing in Flux: The Everyday World of Hue in the 1960s Huong Nguyen University of Washington Madagascar (1896-1960s) Tasha Rijke-Epstein Vanderbilt University When Sunday Comes: The Poetics and Politics of African American Gospel Music in Celebratory Culture and Black Metropolitanism in the Great Migration USC Conference 3rd Floor Friday 12:30-2:00 Music and Popular Culture TBA TBA Octavia Butler Reimagines Postwar California Carl Abbott Portland State University the Post-Industrial era, 1968 -1994 Claudrena N. Harold University of Virginia Era Elijah Gaddis Auburn University USC Ballroom A Friday 12:30-2:00 Rough Cut Documentary Film Screening: Trenton 1968 Alison Isenberg Princeton University Trenton '68 Purcell Carson and Sheri Parks Maryland Institute College of Art Katya Altman, Malcolm Cammeron, Samantha Citarella, Richard Cottrell, Emily Harmon, Eboni USC Ballroom B Friday 12:30-2:00 Poster Session Haynes, Dominique Hazzard, John Horan, Jennifer Mandelbaum, Ayan Mitra, Havva Yilmaz Hilton Carolina Wren Friday 12:30-2:00 Teaching the City in Advanced Placement Human Geography Jerry Mitchell University of South Carolina Roundtable Larianne Collins University of South Carolina Phillip Hare A. C. Flora High School Deborah Kidd Beaufort High School MaryAnn Sansonetti-Wood Spring Valley High School Hilton Yellow Jessamine Friday 12:30-2:00 Publishing in Journals David Goldfield University of North Carolina-Charlotte Roundtable David Goldfield University of North Carolina Charlotte Nancy Kwak University of California San Diego Domenic Vitiello University of Pennsylvania Hilton Palmetto Ballroom A Friday 12:30-2:00 Graduate Workshop A Black Judge, Two Mexican Defendants, and The Sensational "[T]he Cherikee Indians now in town": Cherokees in Charlestown During the Winter of 1717 and the “A Provisional Palestine: Zionism and Nationhood as a Racial Marker for Jews in Backlash: The Significance of Latinos in Urban Law and Order Hilton Ballroom C Friday 12:30-2:00 Beyond Binary Racial Formations Samia Henni Princeton University Samia Henni Urban Nature of Early America Nathaniel Holly College of William and Mary Houston” Timothy Quevillon University of Houston Debates Lilia Fernandez Rutgers University "The Rainbow Lights of Broadway Blaze": Rethinking New York City and “‘I’m From Soundview!’: Race, Place, Class, and the Memories of First-Generation Harlem Migrants “‘We Have So Many Police and They Cannot Protect Us’: The Politics “‘Sportsmanship as Virtue for All Negro Youngsters’: Crime Hilton Ballroom D Friday 12:30-2:00 the Jim Crow North Shannon King College of Wooster Shannon King to the South Bronx” Siobhan Carter-David Southern Connecticut State University “Field of Dreams Deferred: Race, Nostalgia, and Housing in Brooklyn” Hasan Kwame Jeffries The Ohio State University of Safety in Interwar New York” Shannon King College of Wooster Prevention and the Politics of Play in Postwar Harlem” Carl Suddler Florida Atlantic University USC Conference 1A Friday 2:15-3:45 New Directions in Telling Urban Histories in City Museums TBA TBA New (Interpretive) Foundations for Old Historic House Museums John Sherrer Historic Columbia Sharing Charlotte's Past in Its History Museums Emily Makas University of North Carolina at CharlotteCity Museums and the Future of Cities Chet Orloff Museum of the City, Portland A City to be Proud of'? Elite Response to the Pittsburgh Survey, USC Conference 1C Friday 2:15-3:45 Modernizing the Segregated City Saskia Coenen Snyder University of South Carolina Saskia Coenen Snyder The Rise of Swimming Baths: Providing Public Recreation Spaces in Johannesburg, 1920-1940 Louis Grundlingh University of Johannesburg Belfast Child: Welfare and the Children of the Poor in a Divided City 1903-1914 Olwen Purdue University of Belfast 1908-1914 Stepan Serdiukov Indiana University “Informal Departure”: Chicago’s Juvenile Reform Institutions and the Problem of ‘A Block to the Torrent of Delinquency’: The Promises and Pitfalls of USC Conference 2A Friday 2:15-3:45 Institutional Reformation: Chicago and Delinquent Youths Melanie Newport University of Connecticut Hartford Melanie Newport “Separating the Men From the Boys”: Reforming Juveniles in Chicago, 1896-1916 Susan Garneau Grand View University Escape, 1910- 1930 Oenone Kubie Oxford University a Neighborhood Center’s Goal of Curbing Crime, 1947-1969 Stella Ress University of Southern Indiana Route 66 of Black Desire: Highways, Postwar Liberalism, and USC Conference 3rd Floor Friday 2:15-3:45 African-American Movement and Mobility Kwame Holmes University of Colorado Boulder Kwame Holmes “You Will Find it Handy”; Rhode Island’s African-American Travel Guide Sites, 1935-1965 Catherine Zipf Independent Scholar Journeys through Jim Crow: The Violence of Visits during the Great Migration Mary-Elizabeth Murphy Eastern Michigan University Community Underdevelopment in Newark, New Jersey John Johnson St. Peter's University USC Ballroom A Friday 2:15-3:45 Film screening placeholder Framing the Early 20th Century City: Teaching with Hilton Carolina Wren Friday 2:15-3:45 Teaching the Global City: Space, Time, Race and Identity Anton Rosenthal University of Kansas Anton Rosenthal Teaching the Racialization of Space through Place-based Learning in Brazil and the US South Lena Suk University of Louisiana, Lafayette Teaching Chinese Urban History in an Era of Booming Asian Cities Kristin Stapleton University of Buffalo Urban History in an Urban School: Identity Politics in the Classroom Katie Singer Bard High School Early College Postcards Anton Rosenthal University of Kansas Hilton Yellow Jessamine Friday 2:15-3:45 Publishing Your Book in an Urban History Series Amanda Seligmann University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Roundtable Amanda Seligmann University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Chicago Press Bob Lockhart University of Pennsylvania Press Kim Robinson University of California Press, People's Guide Series Bridget Flannery-McCoy Columbia University Press Schooling the Truant Boy and Restless Girl: Gender, Delinquency, Hilton Palmetto Ballroom A Friday 2:15-3:45 Schools and Youth Marta Gutman City University of New York Graduate Center Elizabeth Todd Breland Crossing the Line: Youth Activism, Ocean Hill-Brownsville Strike Neil Buffett State University of New York, Suffolk Two Baltimore Plans: Race, Public Health, and Youth in Postwar Baltimore Michael Casiano University of Maryland and the Rise of Vocational Education in Chicago, 1880-1920 Ruby Oram Loyola University Chicago "Constant Surveillance": Race, Crime, and Developing LAPD Surveillance at Mid-Century, 1950- Hilton Ballroom C Friday 2:15-3:45 Images, Ideology, and Infrastructure in Southern California Elaine Lewinnek California State University-Fullerton Elaine Lewinnek 1965” Stephen Bohigian University of Nevada - Las Vegas Shaping the Modern Body: Water Infrastructure in Los Angeles (1870-1920) Jan-Eric Hansen Humboldt University of Berlin Warner Bros. and the Shaping of the Postwar San Fernando Valley Stephanie Franks University of Missouri-Kansas City Any of You Realize that Castro is Letting Out His Friends Too?' The Cuban Refugee "They're Not Part of the Salsa Crowd": Mexican Labor and Leisure in Hilton Ballroom D Friday 2:15-3:45 From Jim Crow to Nuevo South: Latinos/as in America’s Southern Cities Andrew Sandoval-Strausz Pennsylvania State University Andrew Sandoval-Strausz Not a Negro': Latino/as in Jim Crow Washington D.C., 1940-1950 Cecilia Marquez New York University Program and the Challenge to Jim Crow Structures in Miami, 1961-1973 Mauricio Castro Duke University Atlanta, 1980s-1990s Iliana Rodriguez Yale University Failed and Abandoned Towns on the Landscape of McLean County, USC Conference 1A Friday 4:00-5:30 Past Urban Visions on the Contemporary Landscape Jessica Elfenbein University of South Carolina Jessica Elfenbein Carnegie Libraries at the Crossroads: Philanthropy and Urban Form A. Scott Henderson Furman University People and Water: Historic Flood Crests in Kampsville, Illinois Jason L. King Center for American Archaeology Illinois Alan Lessoff Illinois State University A Different Kind of Urban Nature: Images of the Wasteland Commons on Berlin's Urban Periphery in Oil, Architecture, and Urban Modernity in Iran: Colonial Planning and Socio-Spatial A Tale of Three Storms: Urban Resilience and Identity in Hamburg, USC Conference 1C Friday 4:00-5:30 Cultivating Nature Kara Schlicting Queens College, City University of New York Kara Schlichting Photography and Film, 1890-1930 Kristin Poling University of Michigan Segregation Leila Saboori University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 1962-2013 William Whitworth Northeastern University University of Texas, Rio Grande The Upper Darby Incinerator Scandal: The Politics of Trash USC Conference 2A Friday 4:00-5:30 Challenges in Sanitation and Public Health Melanie Kiechle Virginia Tech Melanie Kichle “The ‘Cleanest City’ By No Means, but we Must Make it That”: Sanitation at the 1939 World’s Fair Tina Peabody University of Albany Local Growth Coalitions and the 1927 Typhoid Disaster in Montreal Owen Temby Valley in Postwar America James Cook-Thajudeen Temple University From Prophecy to Projection: The New York Metropolitan Region Study and Commonwealth over City: Boston and the Struggle over City/State From Suburb to City: The Emergence of Mesa, Arizona and USC Conference 3rd Floor Friday 4:00-5:30 Regional Planning and Metropolitics Anthony Pratcher Brown University Anthony Pratcher Metropolitan Vision: Regional Planning in Postwar Denver” Brendan George University of Wisconsin-Madison Rescaling of the Urban Future, 1956-1959 Peter Ekman Sonoma State University Powers, 1890-1936 Russell Fehr Independent Scholar Arlington, Texas as a New Type of City Robert Fairbanks University of Texas at Arlington USC Ballroom A Friday 4:00-5:30 Film Screening: Gentrification Express: Breaking down the BQX Samantha Farinella Independent Filmmaker Amanda Katz Hunter College The Second Front: Neighborhood Rehabilitation in the Age of Slum Hilton Carolina Wren Friday 4:00-5:30 The Origins of "The New Urban Crisis" Thomas Hanchett Levine Museum of the New South Robert Fishman University of Michigan Roots of the Riots: A Comparative Historical Framework for Understanding Modern Unrest Derek Hyra American University The Internal Contradictions of Post-Industrial Recovery: Detroit Since 1967 Howard Gillette Rutgers University Clearance Susan Cowan Montana State University Hilton Yellow Jessamine Friday 4:00-5:30 What Comes Next? Writing Your Second Book LaDale Winling Virginia Tech Roundtable N.D.B. Connolly Johns Hopkins University Margaret Garb Washington University Julilly Kohler-Hausman Cornell University Matthew Lassiter University of Michigan Andrew K Sandoval-StrauszPennsylvania State University Private/Public/Non-Profit: Metropolitan Housing, the Mixed Economy, and Mid-Century Liberalism in Hope in the Housing Act: Speculator Histories in the West End of St. Louis Before Homelessness, Housing, and Public Space in 1980s New Hilton Palmetto Ballroom A Friday 4:00-5:30 Housing Politics in America from New Deal Liberalism to Neoliberalism Lilia Fernandez Rutgers University Lilia Fernandez Nelson Rockefeller's New York Peter Siskind Arcadia University and After 1968 Mo Speller Johns Hopkins University Examining the Social Afterlife of the Restrictive Covenant Lisa Young Washington University York City Benjamin Holtzman Duke University East of East: Novelists, Academics, and Nonfiction Writers Consider Hilton Ballroom C Friday 4:00-5:30 New Approaches to Public Urban History Devin Hunter University of Illinois, Springfield Devin Hunter Local History Comics and Community-Based History Carl Abbott Portland State University The Metropole, the Venice Ghetto Collaboration, and Storymaps of Jewish History Avigail Oren Independent Scholar the Suburban Diversity of El Monte Ryan Reft and Alex Sayf CummingsLibrary of Congress and Georgia State University "Lived Botany": Household Knowledge Production and the Creation of Settler Landscapes in 18th "To Let Her Know She Did Me Wrong": Criminality, Domestic Authority, and the "The First Negro Family on Our Block": Fair Housing in Bloomington, Hilton Ballroom D Friday 4:00-5:30 Cities, Race, and Domesticity John Cumbler University of Louisville John Cumbler Century Philadelphia Hannah Anderson University of Pennsylvania Politics of Black INtimacy in New York City, 1890-1917" Douglas Flowe Washington University MN Chad Montrie University of Massachusetts-Lowell How Can Urban Historians Contribute to Discussions on Climate Change Through Weather Event Historians, Public Historians, and History-makers: Conflicts and Disputes in the Working Towards an Inclusive Pittsburgh: Combating Gentrification USC Conference 1A Saturday 8-9:30 Urban History and Urban Activism David Snyder University of South Carolina Research? Andrew Hurley University of Missouri-St. Louis Writing of the History of the East Zone of Sao Paulo Ricardo Santhiago Universidade Federal de São Paulo through Community Engagement in Public History Amanda Seim Duquesne University The Singapore Planning and Research (SPUR) Group and an Alternative Urban Order and Disorder: Urban Governance and the Making of a USC Conference 1C Saturday 8-9:30 Claiming Imperial Space Minayo Nasiali University of California Los Angeles Joshua Grace University of South Carolina Lagos is a No Man's Land: Struggles Over Belonging in Lagos, Nigeria, 1940s-1980s Halimat Somotan Columbia University History of the City-State Nathan Bullock Duke University Provincial Capital in British Colonia Nigeria, 1917-1963 Constance Weise Henderson State University The Crossroad of Deindustrialization: A Transnational Perspective on the Place-making of Detroit’s Lower East Side and Montreal’s Little USC Conference 2A Saturday 8-9:30 Planning in Place: Three Garden Cities Francesca Ammon University of Pennsylvania Francesca Ammon Making "The Garden City of the South": The Transformation of City Planning in Augusta, GA J. Mark Souther Cleveland State University A Garden City of the 21st Century Andrea Smith University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Burgundy (1970-1990) Brintha Koneshachandra University of Montreal School Boundaries: The Impact of Metropolitan School School Policy is Housing Policy: Desegregation and Metropolitan Desegregation on the 'Neighborhood School' Concept in USC Conference 3rd Floor Saturday 8-9:30 The Campus and the City Christian Anderson University of South Carolina Christian Anderson Locking the Gates: New Haven Politics and the Yale Police Department, 1960-1985 Jacob Anbinder Harvard University The Right to the Campus: Race, Space, and Higher Education in 1960s California Andrew Higgins Curry College Development in Seattle and King County, 1963-1980 Emily Lieb Seattle University Northeast Phildaelphia, 1964-1974 Matthew Smalarz Manor College, Pennsylvania Changing Structures, Structuring Change: a Critical Analysis of “May we […] have an efficiency that does not violate our Race and Retrenchment from Above and Below: The State, the City, and "They Speak Our Language... Business": Latina/o Banking in New York City, 1961- Teachers’ Unions, Racial Politics and Education Privatization humanity:” Defending the Public Hospital in Late Twentieth- USC Ballroom A Saturday 8-9:30 the People in the Late Twentieth-Century U.S. Marisa Chappell Oregon State University Marisa Chappell Dependency, Democracy, and Governance: The Makings of Urban Retrenchment Destin Jenkins University of Chicago 1986 Pedro Regalado Yale University Movements in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Eleni Schirmer University of Wisconsin-Madison Century Chicago Amy Zanoni Rutgers University USC Ballroom C Saturday all day Book Exhibit Crime and Punishment and the End of Richard J. Daley's Chicago, 1967- Hilton Carolina Wren Saturday 8-9:30 1977 Gordon Mantler George Washington University Roundtable Daley in the 1970s Richard Anderson Pennsylvania State University Daley, the Police, and the Black Electorate Andrew Baer University of Alabama-Birmingham Lakefront Liberals and Neighborhood Crim in Daley's Chicago Devin Hunter University of Illinois-Springfield Prisoner Deaths and the Necropolitics of Jail Reform Melanie Newport University of Connecticut-Hartford Gordon Mantler Mapping Displacement: Housing Demoliton and Land Use Change in Nashville's Race, Place, and Cartography: Mapping Urban Renewal in New York Hilton Yellow Jessamine Saturday 8-9:30 New Directions in Mapping LaDale Winling Virginia Tech LaDale Winling Mapping Prejudice: History, Policy, and Pedagogy Eric Fure-Slocum (+MORE) St. Olaf University Black Bottom Neighborhood; 1873--1933 Steven Moga Smith College City Then and Now Jakob Winkler The New School for Social Research An Urban Magna Carta: The Housing and Urban Development Act of Hilton Palmetto Ballroom Saturday 8-9:30 1968, Fifty Years On Roger Biles Illinois State University Roundtable Alexander von Hoffman Joint Center for Housing Studies/Harvard University Kristin Szylvian St. John's University Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Princeton University Roger Biles Hilton Ballroom C Saturday 8-9:30 The History of Foundation Philanthropy in American Cities David Hammack Case Western Reserve University Roundtable Jessica Elfenbein University of South Carolina Elise Hagesfeld Case Western Reserve University Martin Lehfeldt Council of Southeastern Foundations (formerly) Jamil Zainaldin Georgia Humanities Council (formerly)David Hammack Responding to the Violence Crisis: Washington D.C. and Federal Policing Tactics Polishing the Powder Keg: Riots, Race, and Urban Renewal in Hilton Ballroom D Saturday 8-9:30 Cataclysms of the Sixties Alison Isenberg Princeton University Alison Isenberg "The Rebellion that Wasn't: Wilmington, Delaware's 1968 Military Occupation" Ethan Barnett University of Delaware Post-1968 Christine Lamberson Angelo University Boston, 1967 Simon Purdue Northeastern University Who Gets the Credit(s) for Revitalizing Main Street? Economic Incentives USC Conference 1A Saturday 9:45-11:15 and Historic Preservation in South Carolina's Capital City John Sherrer Historic Columbia Roundtable Amy Moore City of Columbia Preservation Department Robert Lewis Preservation Attorney Mark Kennell City Center Partnership Fred Delk Columbia Development Corporation Cities of Brotherly Love: International Solidarity, Anti-Fascist Activism, and Anti- USC Conference 1C Saturday 9:45-11:15 Transnational Urbanisms Nikhil Rao Dartmouth College Nikhil Rao From Bombay to Heaven via Najaf: Transforming the Sacred Urban through Regional Charity Sanket Desai Montgomery County Community College Imperial Geography from London to Harlem Alaina Morgan Stanford University Transnational Historical Geographies of Blackness Teju Adisa-Farrar Independent Scholar Natural Aggression: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Representations of Violence in The Regional Roots of an Urban Water Crisis: Segregation, Uneven Environmental and Political Legacies of Racialized Space in the American Chicago’s Development, and Water Infrastructure Policy in Metropolitan Detroit, Lost and Found: Documenting the History of the Ward One Heidi Cooley, Bobby USC Conference 2A Saturday 9:45-11:15 Metropolis Thomas Lekan University of South Carolina Thomas Lekan “No More Pruitt-Igoes”: Connecting Race, Suburbanization and Climate Change in Postwar St. Louis Robert Gioielli University of Cincinnati Poor People’s Park Kera Lovell University of Hawaii 1950-2000 Josiah Rector Northland College Community of Columbia, South Carolina Donaldson University of South Carolina Immigrant Acts: Political Coalition Building in Response to Nativism, New York City, Scoffers and Ruffians: Anti-Chinese Violence in Exclusion Era Planning the City through Pain: A Vernacular History of USC Conference 3rd Floor Saturday 9:45-11:15 Early 20th Century Urbanism from the Ground Up Paige Glotzer University of Wisconsin-Madison Paige Glotzer Trumping the Triangle: Excavating Washington’s Trump International Hotel and the Federal Triangle Lawrence Vale Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1920-1932 Marek Steedman University of Southern Mississippi Chicago Samuel King University of South Carolina Zoning Joel Black University of Florida Everything a Manager Needs to Know': Community Development, Managerial Logic, and the Rise of Winning the Rat Race: Urban Running, Professional Work, and the USC Ballroom A Saturday 9:45-11:15 Making the Dual City in the 1970s and 1980s Suleiman Osman George Washington University Suleiman Osman Austerity Politics Jessica Levy Johns Hopkins University Boom and Bust: Latina/o Manufacturing Labor in 'Postindustrial' New York Pedro Regalado Yale University New York City Marathon Dylan Gottlieb Princeton University Florida Rethinking the Punitive Turn: What Local Police Systems Tell Us About the Making of the Carceral Getting Physical: Street-Corner Fighting, Rioting, and Urban Police Violence After Arrestable Women: Sexual Policing and the Making of Law- Reform and Retrenchment: Reflections on a Century Atlantic Hilton Carolina Wren Saturday 9:45-11:15 New Directions in the History of Police and Cities Heather Thompson University of Michigan Heather Thompson State Simon Balto Ball State University World War II Alex Elkins University of Michigan Policing Los Angeles: Rethinking the Police in Postwar Urban Politics Max Felker-Kantor DePauw University and-Order America Anne Gray Fischer Brown University of Police Improvement Nora Krinitsky Case Western Reserve "'Protecting NewCarl York Suddler City fromUniversity Harlem': Criminalization of Youth after the Great Depression" The Southwest Goes National: The Regional Origins of Interstate Banking, 1984- Transnational Capital, Public Services and Urban Protest: Salvador Making Creditworthy Communities: Neighborhood Planning Hilton Yellow Jessamine Saturday 9:45-11:15 Scales of Capital Flight: Urban, Regional, Global Mehrsa Baradaran University of Georgia Mehrsa Baradaran “The Supply-Side City: Taxation and Economic Growth in Post-Fiscal Crisis New York” Jacqueline Brandon Princeton University 1994 Erin Cully CUNY Graduate Center and the World in the Early Twentieth Century Rafael Davis Portela CUNY Graduate Center and Reinvestment Strategies in St. Louis since 1968 Morris Speller Johns Hopkins University Remembering the Great Uprising: Public Commemoration of the Urban Hilton Palmetto Ballroom Saturday 9:45-11:15 Revolts of the 1960s, 50 years after the Kerner Commission Report Komozi Woodard Sarah Lawrence College Roundtable Aliyah Dunn-Salahudin City College of San Francisco Rosie Uyola Lawrenceville School, NJ Verdis Robinson The Democracy Commitment Laura Hill Bloomfield College Peter Levy York College Prisons and Primaries: How 1986 in Milwaukee and Minneapolis-St. Paul Undermined Metropolitan Hilton Ballroom C Saturday 9:45-11:15 The Political and Spatial Transformation of Midwestern Cities D. Bradford Hunt Newberry Library D. Bradford Hunt Liberalism Cory Haala Marquette University The Chicago Indian Village and the Spatial Politics of Self Determination, 1969-1974 David De La Torre University of Iowa Interwar Workers' Housing from Dessau to Detroit Michael McCulloch Ferris State University The Conundrum of 'Comprehensive‘ and 'Coordinated‘: The Conflicted Role of Constructing the “Real City”: The Fair Housing Act, George Romney, Hilton Ballroom D Saturday 9:45-11:15 Re-evaluating Model Cities Kristin Szylvian St. John's University Kristin Szylvian Model Cities in the Model City: High Expectations and Disappointment in Detroit Roger Biles Illinois State University Housing in New York City’s Model Cities Program Susanne Schindler ETH Zurich and the Metropolitan Idea in Dayton, Ohio, 1960-1980 Eric Rhodes Miami University of Ohio Using Digital Resources for Urban History Research: A South Carolina A Digitial Consortium: Searching across Digital Collections for Digitized Data and Historical Geographies of Jim-Crow Era USC Conference 1A Saturday 12:30-2:00 Sampler Staci Richey Museum Consultant Staci Richey A Visit to the Morgue: Insights from the Curation of a 20th-Century Newspaper Photograph Archive Margaret Dunlap Richland Library Using Digital Documentary Editions to Explore Eighteenth-Century America Mary Sherrer University of South Carolina Community History Kate Boyd University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina Caroline Nagel and Conor HarrisonUniversity of South Carolina UHA and French Colonial Historical Society Panel: Rats Be Gone! And Disembarking: The Policing of Women in French Imperial Port Cities During the Together In the Dark: Immigrant Labor, Transnationali Tourism, and USC Conference 1C Saturday 12:30-2:00 Other Histories of Mobility in French and Francophone Cities Minayo Nasiali University of California, Los Angeles Minayo Nasiali Adapting "Ratproofing" for Interwar French Colonia Ports Peter Soppelsa University of Oklahoma Interwar Years Jennifer Boittin Pennsylvania State University France's Pornographic Cinemas Michael Mulvaney St. Thomas University Learning From Paris (In China) Catherine Clark Massachusetts Institute of Technology Citizenship, Authority, and Refining the Nineteenth-Century Surveilling the Civil War Vacation: Architecture of the New Hampshire Veterans The Unintentional Panopticon: Urban Train Stations and Subaltern USC Conference 2A Saturday 12:30-2:00 Urban Panopticon Anna Andrzejewski University of Wisconsin-Madison Anna Andrzejewski Public Justice: Policing Poverty in the Early 19th-Century City Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan Rutgers University Association Campus at Weirs Beach, 1878-1900 C. Ian Stevenson Boston University Surveillance in the Late Nineteenth Century Zachary Nowak Harvard University The Color of Hours: Race, Time, and Place in the Making of USC Conference 3rd Floor Saturday 12:30-2:00 Innovations in Urban Theory Howard Gillette Rutgers University-Camden Howard Gillette City Planning and Human Ecology: A Failed Intersection John Fairfield Xavier University The "Discovery" of Megalopolis Kristian Taketomo University of Pennsylvania The Second Urban Revolution Robert Fishman University of Michigan Postwar Detroit Paul Lawrie University of Winnipeg “Deregulating the War on Poverty in Georgia: Producerism, Federalism, and “A Popular and Effective Approach to the War on Poverty?: The “To Determine One’s Rights: The History of Legal Aid USC Ballroom A Saturday 12:30-2:00 The Enduring War on Poverty, 1964-1975 Kent Germany University of South Carolina Wesley Phelps Sam Houston State University “‘A College in the Streets’: Education, Community Control, and the War on Poverty in Brooklyn” Michael Woodsworth Bard High School Early College Reconstructing Boundaries to Federal Aid, 1960-1975” Brent Cebul University of Pennsylvania Manpower Job Training Program in Eastern North Carolina" Karen Hawkins University of North Carolina, Greensboro Services in the Appalachian South” Jessica Wilkerson University of Mississippi Policing and War: Connections between Military Mobilizations and Domestic Policing in U.S. Cities in the First Half of the 20th “The Imperatives of Chicago’s First War on Cocaine: The Changing Nature of Police Turning Soldiers into Cops: How Demobilized Soldiers after World Dogs of War: The Rise of the Police K9 in the First Half of Hilton Carolina Wren Saturday 12:30-2:00 Century Sam Mitrani College of DuPage Sam Mitrani “Youthful Hoodlum Offenders”: WWII and the Campaign Against Male Juvenile Delinquency in NYC Emily Brooks City University of New York work and the Practice of Entrapment in the Early 20th Century” Richard Del Rio University of Chicago War II Became Police Officers Stuart Schrader Harvard University the Twentieth Century Tyler Wall University of Tennessee “The Vice Squad of American Culture is Once Again on the Attack”: How New Right "We’re Going to Have Meat & Bread:" Funding Grassroots Hilton Yellow Jessamine Saturday 12:30-2:00 Funding Black Power: Politics, Race, and Resources Annelise Orleck Dartmouth College Annelise Orleck “No strings attached:” White Philanthropy and Black Power in Boston Claire Dunning University of Maryland Assaults on the NEA Shaped Black Gay Politics in Oakland David Hutchinson University of Michigan Movements in Atlanta after the War on Poverty Andrew Pope Harvard University Hilton Palmetto Ballroom Saturday 12:30-2:00 Neoliberalism and the City: A Discussion of Andrew Diamond’s Chicago on theAndrew Make Kahrl University of Virginia Roundtable Thomas Sugrue New York University Tracy Neumann Wayne State U. Davarian Baldwin Trinity College Andrew Diamond Sorbonne “Highways of Speech”: Expanding the Bell Telephone Monopoly Between the Urban Big Business, Small Towns: The “Good Roads” Trains, Urban Hilton Ballroom C Saturday 12:30-2:00 Crossing the Divide: Blurring the Boundaries of Urban and Rural InfrastructureLisa Krissoff Boehm Bridgewater State University Tammy Ingram College of Charleston Ruralizing the Urban: City Airports and Working-class Gardens in 1920s Berlin Mark Beirn Washington University and the Rural, 1920-1945 Kathryn Holliday University of Texas at Arlington Manufacturers, and Rural Road Programs, 1901-1916 Amanda Katz Carnegie Mellon University The Commonwealth Must Be Defended: Ousiders Reimagine the Terms of Order in Cities at the Crossroads: Berlin, Chicago, and the History of Industrial Hilton Ballroom D Saturday 12:30-2:00 Creating Ideas of Urban Planning from Above and Below Mark Rose Florida Atlantic University Mark Rose The View from Below: Seattle's Housing Crisis during the 1970s and 1980s Takashi Matsumaru Carnegie Mellon Boston in the 1970s Jeffrey Helgeson Texas State University Location Theory Parker Everett Worcester Polytechnic Institute USC Conference 1A Saturday 2:15-3:45 Utopia Revisited Robert Fishman University of Michigan Audience Paolo Soleri and America's Third Utopia: The Sustainable City-Region Carlos Balsas State University of New York-Albany A New Frontier: Race and Gender in Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City Joseph Watson University of British Columbia The Pastoral Ideal in Early New Deal Planning Ron Dulaney, Jr. West Virginia University DIY Masculinities: Mechanical Labor and A City of Words, a City of Song: Infrastructures of Belonging in Colonial Sekondi, c. Design by Destruction: Earthquake Town Planning and Housing in A Standard of Living: Housing Politics and Domestic Technological Personhood in Informal East African USC Conference 1C Saturday 2:15-3:45 Building the City You Deserve: DIY Urbanism in Colonial Africa Jennifer Hart Wayne State University Jennifer Hart Building the Cities Their Communities Deserved: Tanzanian Entrepeneurs, 1914-1960 Laura Fair Michigan State University 1900-1920 Nate Plageman Wake Forest University Accra (Ghana), 1939-1945 Waseem-Ahmed bin-Kasim Washington University in St. Louis Respectability in Post-Colonial Mombasa Caleb Edwin Owen Truman State University, Missouri Garages Joshua Ryan Grace University of South Carolina Informality, Regulation, and Urban Publics in the Making of USC Conference 2A Saturday 2:15-3:45 Historical Perspectives on the Informal City in South Asia Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria Brandeis University Svati Shah University of Massachusetts In Violation but not Against the Rule: Urban Informality and the History of a High-Modernist City Faiza Moatasim Hamilton College The State, Urban Growth, and the Production of Informality in Bombay Nikhil Rao Dartmouth College Hyderabad City Eric Beverley State University of New York at Stony Brook The Participation of Civil Society in Urban Planning: The Case of USC Ballroom A Saturday 2:15-3:45 Constructing Modern Latin American Urban Centers Rocio Gomez University of Arkansas Audience The Sound of Rebellion in the South American Wars for Independence 1809-1825 Caleb Wittum University of South Carolina A Jewel to Behold: Urban Renewal and Consumption in Post-War Mexico City Ashley Whiting University of Arkansas Medellin, Columbia Patricia Schnitter Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Sex, Drugs, Guns, and Gambling: Profit, Pleasure, and Peril in New York City's Black Underground “The Despair of Being in a Static Position”: Race and Isolation in Hilton Carolina Wren Saturday 2:15-3:45 Understanding Underground Economies Timothy Gilfoyle Loyola University Chicago Timothy Gilfoyle Economy Douglas Flowe Washington University in St. Louis Painting Harlem Youth and Passing the Rockefeller Drug Laws Matt Kautz Columbia University Great Migration Chicago Joel Black University of Florida Hilton Palmetto Ballroom A Saturday 2:15-3:45 The Legacy and Impact of Arnold Hirsch Thomas Sugrue New York University Roundtable Lilia Fernandez Rutgers University Rhonda Williams Vanderbilt University N.D.B. Connolly Johns Hopkins University Destin Jenkins University of Chicago Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorPrinceton University Detroit at the Crossroads: Redefining Immigration Law on the U.S.-Canada Border During the Great Detroit's Adopted Sons and Daughters: Migrants, Family Order, and Hilton Ballroom C Saturday 2:15-3:45 Borderlands of the U.S. North Victoria Wolcott University of Buffalo Victoria Wolcott Depression Ashley Johnson Bavery Eastern Michigan University Black Homeownership in Mid-century New York City Hilary Botein Baruch College, City University of NewBorder York Control in the 1920s Nicole Greer Golda Ferrum College, Virginia Mapping Manhattan: Questions for Exploring Dance History Ann Dils University of North Carolina at Charlotte