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The Urban History Association was founded in 1988 with 284 members; it now has over 400. It sponsored the "Sixth Biennial Urban History Association Conference" in New York, October 25–28, 2012. It awards prizes for the best book prize, best article, and best PhD dissertation. [47]
The current editor-in-chief is David Goldfield, who is Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The journal was established in 1974 and is published by SAGE Publications in association with the Urban History Association.
Timothy J. Gilfoyle is an American historian from New York who is a professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, where he teaches American urban and social history. [1] He gained a B.A. in 1979, [2] followed by a Ph.D. in history at Columbia University in 1987. [3] He is the former president of the Urban History Association (2015–16).
Abbott has authored or co-authored sixteen books. The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West (1993) received the book award of the Urban History Association [14] and Political Terrain: Washington D.C. from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis (1999) received the book award of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. [6]
The work won the Urban History Association's Kenneth Jackson Award in 1999 for best book in North American urban history. The book is a definitive account of the rise of the Chicago labor movement during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the struggle for the eight-hour day , and the Pullman Strike of 1894.
In 1971 Wade was named a distinguished professor of history at Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In 1974-1975 Wade was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. Wade was a co-founder and the first president of the Urban History Association.
Cohen’s 1996 American Historical Review article, “From Town Center to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America,” won the Urban History Association’s Prize for Best Journal Article in Urban History and the Organization of American Historian’s ABC-CLIO, America: History and Life Award for an ...
He established the Archives of Industrial Society at The University of Pittsburgh where he served as a professor of history from 1960 until 1990. Hays served as president of the Urban History Association in 1992. In 1997 he came the first recipient of the American Society for Environmental History Distinguished Scholar award