Bio
I've been the Associate Director of the Program on Urban Studies since the fall of 2003; I'm also a senior lecturer in Urban Studies and, sometimes, in History.
I teach both introductory and upper-level courses in Urban Studies, and I teach courses on the history of American cities.
Academic Appointments
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Senior Lecturer, Sociology
Administrative Appointments
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Associate Director, Program on Urban Studies (2004 - Present)
Professional Education
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Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, History (2002)
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
19th and 20th Century Urban and Social History; Street Life; Urban Space
2019-20 Courses
- Capstone Internship in Urban Studies
URBANST 201A (Aut, Spr) - Gentrification
URBANST 141 (Spr) - Introduction to Urban Studies
HISTORY 107, URBANST 110 (Win) - SENIOR SEMINAR
URBANST 203 (Aut) - Service Learning Practicum
EDUC 98 (Win) -
Independent Studies (3)
- Directed Reading
URBANST 197 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Internship in Urban Studies
URBANST 194 (Win, Spr) - Senior Honors Thesis
URBANST 199 (Win, Spr)
- Directed Reading
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Prior Year Courses
2018-19 Courses
- Capstone Internship in Urban Studies
URBANST 201A (Aut, Spr) - From Gold Rush to Google Bus: History of San Francisco
AMSTUD 150X, HISTORY 252E, URBANST 150 (Spr) - Introduction to Urban Studies
HISTORY 107, URBANST 110 (Win) - SENIOR SEMINAR
URBANST 203 (Aut) - Service Learning Practicum
EDUC 98 (Win)
2017-18 Courses
- Capstone Internship in Urban Studies
URBANST 201A (Aut, Spr) - Gentrification
CSRE 141, URBANST 141 (Spr) - Introduction to Urban Studies
URBANST 110 (Win) - SENIOR SEMINAR
URBANST 203 (Aut) - Service Learning Practicum
EDUC 98 (Win) - St. Petersburg: Imagining a City, Building a City
OSPGEN 74 (Sum) - St. Petersburg: Imagining a City, Building a City
SLAVIC 155 (Spr)
2016-17 Courses
- Capstone Internship in Urban Studies
URBANST 201A (Aut, Spr) - From Gold Rush to Google Bus: History of San Francisco
AMSTUD 150X, HISTORY 152E, URBANST 150 (Win) - Housing Justice Research Lab
CSRE 99, URBANST 187 (Aut) - Housing as a Human Right: Exploring Housing Justice from the Global to the Particular
URBANST 100A (Win) - Senior Seminar
SOC 204, URBANST 203 (Aut)
- Capstone Internship in Urban Studies
All Publications
- Reading Whiskey Gulch: The Meanings of Space and Urban Redevelopment in East Palo Alto Occasion 2015; 8
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THE RISK OF CHOLERA AND THE REFORM OF URBAN SPACE: PHILADELPHIA, 1893
GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW
2013; 103 (4): 517-536
View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2013.00018.x
View details for Web of Science ID 000328565400007
- “There are Plenty of Women on the Street”: The Landscape of Commercial Sex in Progressive-Era Philadelphia” Historical Geography 2012; 40: 39-60