TRAINING:
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Ph.D., History, May 1997.
Major Field: American Social and Urban History
Other Fields: American Cultural and Intellectual History
Modern Latin American History

Brown University
M.A., History, May 1992

Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
B.A. with High Honors in American Studies, May 1984

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
Assistant Professor, History, DePaul University. July 1997-Present.

Teaching Assistant, Brown University, Departments of History and Sociology, 1992-1997.

Writing Associate, Brown University Writing Center, 1996-97.

RELATED EXPERIENCE:

Staff Writer, The Hartford Courant. (1986-1991). Covered a succession of towns and cities in Connecticut, concluding with the city of New Britain (City Hall and neighborhoods).

PUBLICATIONS:

"Nocturnal Habits and Dark Wisdom: The American Response to Children in the Streets at Night, 1870-1920," Journal of Social History (forthcoming).

Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Winner, Urban History Association's 2000 prize for "Best Book in North American Urban History."

"Vice Districts" Encyclopedia of Chicago History. (forthcoming)

"Timothy D. Sullivan." American National Biography. 21: 126-27. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

"Antiprostitution Reform and the Use of Public Space in Hartford, Connecticut, 1878-1914." Journal of Urban History 23, no. 6 (Sept. 1997): 709-738.

"Becoming a City of Homes: The Suburbanization of Cranston, 1850-1910." Rhode Island History 51, no. 1 (Feb. 1993): 3-22.

REVIEWS:

E-book review of City Sites: Multimedia Essays on Chicago and New York. H-Urban@H-net. March 17, 2001.

Book review of Paul Kruty's Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens). H-Urban@H-net. Jan 18, 1999.

Book review of David G. Dalin and Jonathan Rosenbaum's Making a Life, Building a Community). H-Urban@H-net. Dec. 23, 1997.
 

PRESENTATIONS:

"Juvenile Curfews in American Cities." Presented March 17, 2001, at "Night and the City: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Nocturnal Side of City Life," McGill University, Montreal.

"Glimpsing the Darker Side: Children in American Streets at Night, 1880-1930." Presented Nov. 17, 2000, at the Humanities Research Group Distinguished Speakers Series, University of Windsor, Ontario.

"Child Labor Reform and the Idea of Innocence in Urban America." presented Dec. 10, 1998, at the Urban History Seminar, Chicago Historical Society.

"Taming the `Reckless Pedestrian': Motorists, Public Officials, and the Use of Streets in Hartford, 1910-1930." Presented Oct. 5, 1996, at "Tales of the City: The Urban Center and its Place in History," Graduate History Conference, Princeton University.

"Two Visions of Western Development: The Ideas of Ferdinand Hayden and John Wesley Powell, 1867-1879." Presented Sept. 27, 1996  at "Western Lands: Rocks, Rails and Ranching." Fifth Annual History Symposium, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie.

"`Mothers of Hartford': The Maternal Claim to Public Space in the Progressive Era." Presented Oct. 28, 1995, at the New England Historical Association conference, Manchester, New Hampshire.

TEACHING:

I have taught the following courses at DePaul University:

American Suburbs (History 400)

Topics in American History: Progressive Reform (History 384)

U.S. Survey, 1900- Present (History 282)

Themes in U.S. History: Chicago in the Twentieth Century (History 263)

Women in History: U.S. Women's History, 1607-1860 (History 258)

The City in History: American Urban History (History 254)

History of Chicago (History 240)

Discover Chicago: Parks, Streets and Other Public Spaces (IDS 103)

Discover Chicago: Public Memory and the City (IDS 103)

WEB SITES:

• "New York's Fourth Ward: Life and Death in a Working Class Neighborhood, 1860-1870." (Under construction). This will be an extensive collection of primary sources, maps, images, and essays about a neighborhood in what is now the South Street Seaport area of lower Manhattan. So far, it contains maps, images, and descriptive material from the Report of the Council of Public Hygiene (1865), but it will also include newspaper articles, demographic information from census schedules, and other primary sources. http://www.depaul.edu/~pbaldwin/hst254/fourthward.html
• "Chicago History." A web site on Chicago history for my use and for the use of other DePaul faculty who teach Chicago-related courses. The site includes photo essays, primary source documents, and links to related sites. http://www.depaul.edu/~pbaldwin/hst240/chiinfo.html
• "Primary Sources in U.S. History." A collection of primary sources scanned from original documents or available via links to other web sites. http://condor.depaul.edu/~clio/usprimary.html
• "DePaul University History Department."  The department's web site. http://condor.depaul.edu/~clio/

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:

• Appointed a Humanities Center Fellow, DePaul University, 2001
• Urban History Association's 2000 prize for "Best Book in North American History."
• National Endowment for the Humanities, summer institute ("The Built Environment of the American Metropolis.") June-July, 1999.
• University Research Council Competitive Research Grant, DePaul University. Summer 2000.
• University Research Council Competitive Research Grant, DePaul University. 1998.
• Faculty Research and Development Summer Research Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, DePaul University. Summer 1998.
• Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. 1995-96.
• University Fellowship, Brown University, 1991-92.

REFERENCES:

Prof. Howard P. Chudacoff
History Department, Box N.
Brown University
Providence RI 02912
(401) 863-2131
Howard_Chudacoff@brown.edu

Prof. John L. Thomas
History Department, Box N.
Brown University
Providence RI 02912
(401) 863-2131

Prof. Zane L. Miller
Department of History
University of Cincinnati
360 McMicken Hall
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0373
(513) 556-2144

Prof. Robert Bruegmann
Art History Department m/c 201
U. of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago Ill. 60607
(312) 413-2469
bbrueg@interaccess.com

Prof. Ellen Eslinger
DePaul University
History Department
2320 N. Kenmore Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614
(773) 325-1571
eeslinge@wppost.depaul.edu

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