Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION:

A.B., Brown University, English and American Literature, 1968
M.Phil., Yale University, American Studies, 1972
Ph.D., Yale University, American Studies, 1974

EMPLOYMENT:

Instructor to Professor of English and American Studies (formerly American Culture), Northwestern University, 1972-2014; joint appointment in History

Director of the Program in American Studies, Northwestern University, 1979-82, 1986-89, 2004-2005

Assistant Dean for Freshmen, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, 1997-2000

HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS:

    Honors

Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, 1994-1997

Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies, Northwestern University, 1998-present

    Awards

Society of Midland Authors, 1st Prize for Non-Fiction (for Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief)

Illinois State Historical Society Award for Superior Achievement, Scholarly Publications,
(for Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief)

Urban History Association, Best Book in North American Urban History (for Urban     Disorder and the Shape of Belief)

Society of American City, Regional, and Planning History, Lewis Mumford Prize for Best Book in American Planning History (for The Plan of Chicago:  Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City)

Multiple citations for online exhibitions The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory and The Dramas of Haymarket

    Fellowships

Fellow, National Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago, 1977-78

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, The Newberry Library, 1985-86

Lloyd Lewis/National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, The Newberry Library, 1996-97

Mellon Research Fellow, Center for the Study of New England History, Massachusetts
Historical Society, 1997

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation “Imagining America” Public
Scholarship Grant (in support of The Dramas of Haymarket), 1999-2000

Visiting Research Fellowship in Early American History and Culture, Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2002

The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center Fellowship, September-October, 2005

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2005-06

R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow, Henry E. Huntington Library, 2009-10

PUBLICATIONS:

     Books

Law and American Literature:  A Collection of Essays  (with John P. McWilliams, Jr., and Maxwell Bloomfield (New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 1983)

Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920 (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1984)

Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief:  The Great Chicago Fire, The Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (University of Chicago Press, 1995; paperback, 1996; 2nd edition with new preface, 2007)

The Plan of Chicago:  Daniel Burnham, and the Remaking of the American City (University of Chicago Press, 2006; paperback 2007)

City Water, City Life:  Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago(University of Chicago Press, 2013; paperback 2014)

     Online Museum Exhibitions and Digital Essays (curator/author)

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory, http://www.greatchicagofire.org (1996; revised and expanded version, and iPhone app version, 2011)

The Dramas of Haymarket, http://www.chicagohistoryresources.org/dramas (2000)

The Plan of Chicago, http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/10537.html (2005; revised 2008)

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