North American Editorial Board, Urban History

Philip Ethington, Univ. of So. Calif.

Robin Bachin, Univ. of Miami

Michˆ®le Dagenais, Univ. of Montreal

Hira de Gortari Rabiela, UNAM

Richard Harris, McMaster University

Matthew Lassiter, Univ. of Michigan

Lynn Hollen Lees, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Max Page, Univ. of Massachusetts

Janice Reiff, Univ. of Calif. Los Angeles

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Univ. of Calif. Irvine

Victoria Wolcott, Univ. of Rochester

Philip J. Ethington - philipje@usc.edu
Department of History, University of Southern California
North American Editor, Urban History
Publications include: The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994; republished University of California Press, 2001); ’ÄúGlobal Spaces of Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s,’Äù in Gyan Prakash and Kevin Kruse, eds, Spaces of the Modern City. (Princeton University Press, 2008); With R. McManus, ’ÄúSuburbs in Transition: New Approaches to Suburban History,’Äù Urban History 34:3 (2007); With Vanessa R. Schwartz, co-editor of special issue, ’ÄúUrban Icons,’Äù and ’ÄúIntroduction: an atlas of the Urban Icons project,’Äù Urban History 33:1 (June 2006).

Robin Bachin - rbachin@mail.as.miami.edu
History Department and Director, American Studies Program, University of Miami
Editorial Board, Journal of Planning History; Senior Consulting Editor, The American Midwest, Andrew Cayton et al, eds. (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2006); President, Society for American City and Regional Planning History; Executive Board, Miami Consortium for Urban Studies. Publications Include: Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919 (University of Chicago Press, 2004); ’ÄúA History of Urban Parks in the U.S.,’Äù in The Encyclopedia of Urban America, David R. Goldfield, ed. (New York: Sage Publications, 2007); ’ÄúFrom the City to the Seaside: Luxury Hotels in New York, Atlantic City, and Miami Beach,’Äù in Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age: The Architecture of Schultze and Weaver, Marianne Lamonaca and Jonathan Mogul, eds. (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005); ’ÄúAt the Nexus of Labor and Leisure: Baseball, Nativism, and the 1919 Black Sox Scandal,’Äù Journal of Social History 36: 4 (Summer 2003), 941-62.
Exhibitions and Digital Media: Guest Curator, In Pursuit of Pleasure: Schultze and Weaver and the American Hotel, The Wolfsonian/FIU, November 2005-May 2006;
’ÄúTravel, Tourism, and Urban Growth in Greater Miami’Äù (http://scholar.library.miami.edu/miamidigital).

Michˆ®le Dagenais - michele.dagenais@umontreal.ca
Department of History, University of Montreal
Journal Co-editor, 2001-2007 Urban History Review/Revue d'histoire urbaine. Council member of the Canadian Historical Association. Publications include: Faire et fuir la ville. Espaces publics de culture et de loisirs ˆÝ Montrˆ©al et Toronto, XIXe et XXe siˆ®cles, Sainte-Foy, Presses de l'Universitˆ© Laval, 2006; Dagenais, Michˆ®le, Irene Maver et Pierre-Yves Saunier, dir., Municipal Services and Employees in the Modern City : New Historic Approaches, Aldershot, (Angleterre) Ashgate; Des pouvoirs et des hommes : L'administration municipale de Montrˆ©al, 1900-1950, Montrˆ©al et Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000.

Hira de Gortari Rabiela - gortari@correo.unam.mx
Instituto de Investigaciones Socialies, Estudios urbanos y regionales, Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM)
Member of the International Advisory Board for Urban History.
Publications include: "Los inicios del parlamentarismo. La Diputaciˆ„n Provincial de Nueva Espaˆ±a y Mˆ©xico: 1820-1824. Rˆ©gimen Interior", en Virginia Guedea (coord.), La independencia de Mˆ©xico y el proceso autonomista novohispano 1808-1824, UNAM/Instituto de Investigaciones Josˆ© Marˆ‚a Luis Mora, Mˆ©xico, 2001; "Ayuntamientos y ciudadanos. La ciudad de Mˆ©xico y los estados: 1812-1827", Tiempos de Amˆ©rica. Revista de Historia, Cultura y Territorio, Universitat Jaume I, Castellˆ„n, vol. 1, 1998; "La modernizaciˆ„n de las ciudades: 1870-1930", en JOSEFINA VˆÅZQUEZ (coord.), Gran historia de Mˆ©xico ilustrada, Planeta, INAH-CONACULTA (en prensa); "La doctrina de policˆ‚a en el gobierno urbano y las elites: Mˆ©xico y Espaˆ±a", en ˆÅGUEDA JIMˆâNEZ PELAYO (coord.), Elites coloniales y redes locales Mˆ©xico y Espaˆ±a, Universidad de Guadalajara (en prensa).

Richard Harris - harrisr@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University.
Member of the International Advisory Board for Urban History.
Publications include: ’ÄúHousing. Dreams, Responsibilities, and Consequences,’Äù In Trudi Bunting and Pierre Filion, eds. Canadian Cities in Transition (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006). 3rd. edtn.; Creeping Conformity How Canada became Suburban, 1900-1960 (University of Toronto Press, 2004); Changing Suburbs. Foundation, Form and Function, edited, with Peter Larkham (London: E and FN Spon, 1999); Unplanned Suburbs. Toronto’Äôs American Tragedy, 1900-1950 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).

Matthew Lassiter - mlassite@umich.edu
Department of History, University of Michigan
Publications include: The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton University Press, 2006); "Suburban Strategies: The Volatile Center in Postwar Political Culture," in The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (Princeton University Press, 2003), edited by Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer.

Lynn Hollen Lees - lhlees@history.upenn.edu
Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
Member of the International Advisory Board for Urban History.
Publications include: The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1995, rev. ed. (written with Paul Hohenberg), (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995); The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700 to 1948 (Cambridge University Press, 1997; Global Society: The World Since 1900 (written with Pamela K. Crossley and John W. Servos), (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003) .

Max Page - mpage@art.umass.edu
Architecture + Design Program, ’Ä®University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Publications include: The City’Äôs End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’Äôs Destruction (Yale University Press, 2007); The Creative Destruction of Manhattan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, December 1999).

Janice Reiff - jreiff@ucla.edu
Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Publications include: Structuring the Past: The Use of Computers in History (1992), edited, with Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Dirk Hoerder, Henry Dobyns, and John Long, The Settling of North America: The Atlas of the Great Migrations into North America from the Ice Age to the Present (1995) and, with James R. Grossman and Ann Durkin Keating, the prize-winning The Encyclopedia of Chicago (2004). The online version of the Encyclopedia of Chicago was launched in 2005 as joint project of the Chicago Historical Society, the Newberry Library, and Northwestern University.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom - jwassers@uci.edu
Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Editor, Journal of Asian Studies (2008-). Acting Editor of American Historical Review, 1999-2000, currently member of AHR Editorial Board. Publications include: Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai (Stanford University Press, 1991); currently writing: Global Shanghai, 1850-2010: A History in Fragments, (forthcoming, Routledge).

Victoria Wolcott - wolc@mail.rochester.edu
North American Book Review Editor, Urban History
Publications include: "Recreation and Race in the Postwar City: Buffalo's 1956 Crystal Beach Riot," Journal of American History (June 2006): 63-90. Remaking Respectability: African-American Women in Interwar Detroit (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001); "The Culture of the Informal Economy: Numbers Runners in Inter-War Black Detroit," The Radical History Review (Fall 1997): 46-75.