BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

Amanda I. Seligman seligman@uwm.edu University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Department website: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/History/faculty/seligman.html (See Seligman's syllabi in the H-Urban Syllabus Archive at: http://www.h-net.org/~urban/teach/syllabi/index.htm#s )

Degree: Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1999
Current Recent Interests: Cities and suburbs in the postwar US Chicago and Milwaukee Community organizing Public Policy Racism	Current Teaching Interests: Urban history Poverty Youth 20th-Century U.S.A.
Recent Publications: "The Street Formerly Known As Crawford," Chicago History (Spring 2001): 36-51. "'Apologies to Dracula, Werewolf, Frankenstein': White Homeowners and Blockbusters in Chicago," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (Spring 2001): 70-95, special issue on race and housing in post-World War II Chicago. Entries in The Encyclopedia of Chicago History, edited by James Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating and Jan Reiff (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming):

Austin sidebar Blind Trusts Cabrini-Green Croatians East Garfield Park Edgewater The Fight for Fortieth Street Gold Coast   Goose Island K-Town Lake View Lincoln Park Lincoln Square Near North Side North Center

Carving out the Hockey Stick Community Areas Conservation Areas North Lawndale O'Hare Community Area Old Town Ravenswood Sandburg Village Streeterville Towertown Uptown Washington Park Subdivision West Garfield Park Woodlawn