Board Member
[H-Urban Editors also serve on the Board]

Affiliation/University, City, State, Country
Addresses
Geographic Areas -- Subject Areas [Research, Scholarly Interests and fields]

July 1, 2010- June 30, 2012

Carl Abbott

Co-editor, Pacific Historical Review; co-editor, Journal of the American Planning Association
School of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA
<abbottc at pdx.edu> Urban Studies & Planning - Urban & Public Affairs

USA -- 20th Century urban planning history; urban revitalization policy; regional development

Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin

Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France
<implementation at orange.fr>

France; USA; Canada -- Urban planning; economic, cultural and social changes on the urban sphere; social/environmental costs along with the spatial inequalities of metropolitanization processes (along with globalization); sustainable development for city-regions

James Grossman

Newberry Library, Vice President for Research and Education, Chicago, Illinois, USA
<grossmanj at newberry.org> Web: http://www.newberry.org/media/JGrossmanBio.html

USA, Chicago -- African-American history; social history; labor history

David C. Hammack

Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
<david.hammack at case.edu> | Web: http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/hsty/hammack.html

USA; Comparative Western Europe -- Politics; power; non-profit organizations and other institutions

Carola Hein

Growth and Structure of Cities Program, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA
<chein at brynmawr.edu> | Web: http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/CHein.htm

Europe; Japan; World -- Architecture; urban planning. Especially post-war/post-disaster rebuilding, capital cities, capitals of Europe, architectural and urban competitions, port cities, global architecture of oil, international exchange of architectural and planning ideas

Alison Isenberg
President, SACRPH

Professor of History, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
< isenberg at princeton.edu >
USA -- Urban; built environment; business culture

Nora Lafi

Co-Director, "Cities Compared: Cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions" Research Programme, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany, Europe
<nora.lafi at cms.hu-berlin.de> | Web: http://www.zmo.de/Mitarbeiter/Lafi/index.htm

Ottoman Empire, Middle-East, North-Africa, Islamic Cities -- Ottoman Studies; Urban Studies
Specializing in: Ottoman governance of diversity; Municipal institutions in the Ottoman Empire; Civil society in an Islamic context; Gender relations in an urban and islamic context; Colonial cities (race and town planning)

Andrew May

Department of History, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
<a.may at unimelb.edu.au> | Web: http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/may.html

Australasia -- Public space, city encyclopedias, transnational municipalism,
suburban culture, colonial cities, urban ritual, itinerant economies

Charles H. Nilon

Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA
<nilonc at missouri.edu> | Web: http://www.snr.missouri.edu/fw/faculty/nilon-c.php

USA -- Contemporary ecology

Janice Reiff

Department of History, University of California-LA, Los Angeles, California, USA
<jreiff at ucla.edu> | Web: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/reiff/

USA; Germany, Europe -- Labor; community; race; ethnicity

July 1, 2011- June 30, 2013

Harvey J. Graff

Departments of History and English, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
<graff40 at osu.edu> | Web: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/graff40/

USA; Comparative Western Europe -- Urban, social, and cultural; education and literacy

Richard S. Harris

School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
<harrisr at mcmaster.ca>
Web: http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/geo/faculty/harris/index.html

Canada; India; USA -- Housing; home finance and construction; home improvement; suburban development; urban social and historical geography; twentieth-century cities

Kenneth T. Jackson

Department of History, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA
<ktj1 at columbia.edu> |
Web: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/history/fac-bios/Jackson/faculty.html

USA, New York -- Urban and suburban history

Sean Purdy

Amanda I. Seligman

Departments of History and Urban Studies, University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
<seligman at UWM.EDU > | Web: http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/history/faculty/seligman.cfm

USA: Chicago and Milwaukee -- Cities and suburbs in the postwar US; community organizing; public policy; race

Ulf Zimmermann

Public Administration & Human Services, Department of Political Science and International Affairs, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
<uzimmerm at kennesaw.edu>

Europe: Berlin and Germany; USA -- Public administration; literature

Representatives of Sponsor & Affiliate Agencies

Lisa Keller

SUNY-Purchase

Janet Bednarek

Department of History, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, USA
<Janet.Bednarek at notes.udayton.edu> |
Web: http://academic.udayton.edu/JanetBednarek/

USA -- Aviation history; impact of aviation on American landscape

Robert Fairbanks

Department of History, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA
<fairbank at uta.edu> | Web: http://www.uta.edu/history/transatlantic/fairbanks.htm

USA -- Urban planning; housing; politics; Southern U.S.