Current Projects

• Annexation and Suburbs
• Working Class and Immigrant Suburbs
• Squatters and Shantytowns
• Hypsography

Selected Past Projects

• Rural Industrial Communities
• Progressive Era Segregation
• Images of the Frontier in Children's Literature
• Discovering Heritage in Failed Industrial Infrastructure

Links to Past Projects and Working Papers
Masters Thesis: "Our Black Children”: The evolution of Black space in Columbia, Missouri. (3.2MB pdf)
Dissertation: Establishing the Diversity of Late Nineteenth-century Suburbs: A metropolitan context for the railroad era urban fringe. (10MB pdf)
Working Paper: "Suburb and Fringe: Where to look for the 19th Century working class."
Paper submitted to the Diverse Suburb Conference, Hofstra University October 2009. (HTML)
Presentation to the Diverse Suburb Conference, Hofstra University, October 2009. (7MB ppt)
Working Paper: "Of Cannibals and Kings and Huguenots." (2.5MB pdf)

 

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