Events Archive
October 29, 2004
Urban Perspectives: Celebrating the Contributions of Recent Penn Graduates to Urban Scholarship
On Friday, October 29, three recent Penn History PhDs returned to campus to discuss their urban-focused books. Hosted by the Penn Institute for Urban Research, in conjunction with the Department of History, the event drew a standing room-only crowd or professors and students alike. The three authors - Margaret Pugh O'Mara (Cities of Knowledge), Russell A. Kazal (Becoming Old Stock), and Alison Isenberg (Downtown America) - focused on issues of identity, the suburbanization of knowledge, and images of urban revitalization, and the issues presented in these works were discussed further by Prof. Sheldon Hackney, Prof. Thomas J. Sugrue, and Prof. Eugenie L. Birch, respectively.