Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION:
A.B., Brown University, English and American Literature, 1968
M.Phil., Yale University, American Studies, 1972
Ph.D., Yale University, American Studies, 1974
EMPLOYMENT:
Instructor to Professor of English and American Studies (formerly American Culture), Northwestern University, 1972-present; joint appointment in History
Director of the Program in American Studies, Northwestern University, 1979-82, 1986-89, 2004-2005
Assistant Dean for Freshmen, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, 1997-2000
HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Honors
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, 1994-1997
Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies, Northwestern University, 1998-present
Awards
Society of Midland Authors, 1st Prize for Non-Fiction (for Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief)
Illinois State Historical Society Award for Superior Achievement, Scholarly Publications,
(for Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief)
Urban History Association, Best Book in North American Urban History (for Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief)
Society of American City, Regional, and Planning History, Lewis Mumford Prize for Best Book in American Planning History (for The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City)
Multiple citations for online exhibitions The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory and The Dramas of Haymarket
Fellowships
Fellow, National Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago, 1977-78
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, The Newberry Library, 1985-86
Lloyd Lewis/National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, The Newberry Library, 1996-97
Mellon Research Fellow, Center for the Study of New England History, Massachusetts
Historical Society, 1997
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation "Imagining America" Public
Scholarship Grant (in support of The Dramas of Haymarket), 1999-2000
Visiting Research Fellowship in Early American History and Culture, Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2002
The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center Fellowship, September-October, 2005
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2005-06
R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow, Henry E. Huntington Library, 2009-10
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Law and American Literature: A Collection of Essays (with John P. McWilliams, Jr., and Maxwell Bloomfield (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983)
Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984)
Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, The Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (University of Chicago Press, 1995; paperback, 1996; 2nd edition with new preface, 2007)
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham, and the Remaking of the American City (University of Chicago Press, 2006; paperback 2007)
On-line Museum Exhibitions and Digital Essays (curator/author)
The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory, http://www.chicagohistory.org/fire (1996, revised 1997)
The Dramas of Haymarket, http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas (2000)
The Plan of Chicago, http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/10537.html (2005; revised 2008)
Selected Articles and Essays
"Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire: The Financier as Artist," Canadian Review of American Studies 7 (1976), 151-62
"James's Travels, Travel Writings, and the Development of his Art," Modern Language Quarterly 38 (1977), 367-80
"Fearsome Fiction and the Windy City; or, Chicago in the Dime Novel," Chicago History 7 (Spring, 1978), 2-11
"The Boxing Paintings of Thomas Eakins," Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural
Studies 4 (1978), 402-419
"James's International Fiction: Sources and Evolution," Centennial Review 23 (1979),
397-422
"Insight and Irony: The Literary Heritage of the White City," in 1992 World's Fair Forum Papers, Vol. 1: Legacies From Chicago's World's Fairs: A Background for Fair Planning (Evanston: Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, 1984)
"Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire," Yale Review 74 (1984), 79-95
"Cataclysm and Cultural Consciousness: Chicago and the Haymarket Trial," Chicago History 15 (Summer, 1986), 36-53. Reprinted in Rosemary Adams, ed., A Wild Kind of Boldness: The Chicago History Reader (Chicago: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company and The Chicago Historical Society, 1998), pp. 96-109.
"The Bomb on Trial: The Haymarket Accused and the Debate Over American Urban
Community," The Newberry Papers in Family and Community History, Paper 87- 2 (1987)
"Understanding an Earthquake," Baltimore Sun Sunday Perspective, October 22, 1989
"Fantasy, Reality, and the Dying of Another Season," Chicago Tribune, October 31, 1989 Foreword to Fairground Fiction: Detective Stories of the World's Columbian Exposition, edited by Donald K. Hartman (Kenmore, N.Y.: Motif Press, 1992), pp. vii-xiv
"Pursuing the American Cultural Imagination: Technology's Challenges and Opportunities," Educators' Tech Exchange (Winter 1994), 15-22
"The Day After," Chicago Tribune, April 25, 1995
"The Imaginative Dimensions of Urban History," Urban History Association Newsletter 14 (October, 1995), 1-2
"The Perils and Promise of a Digital Museum Show," Chronicle of Higher Education,
Vol. LIII, No. 23 (February 14, 1997), B8-9
"Can You Do Serious History on the Web?" Perspectives (American Historical Association Newsletter) 36 (February, 1998), 5-8; also available at http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/1998/9802/9802COM.CFM
"Point of View: Beware the Pitfalls of Letters of Recommendation," Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. XLIV, No. 28 (March 20, 1998), p. A56
"Cybercityscapes: Reflections on Electronic Urban History," 3 Cities Project (2000) http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/3cities/carlsmith.htm
"When a Professor Ages...and His Students Don't," Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. XLVII, No. 22 (February 9, 2001), p. B20
"The Far Side of Paradise: California, Florida, and the Landscape of Catastrophe," American Literary History 13 (2001), 354-375
"Faith and Doubt: The Imaginative Dimensions of the Great Chicago Fire," in Steven Biel, ed., American Disasters (New York: New York University Press, 2001), pp. 129-169
"Where All the Trains Ran: Chicago," in special issue, "Early Cities of the Americas," Common-Place 3 (July 2003), http://www.common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/chicago/
"The Jeremiad: A Silver Lining," Chicago Tribune "Perspective" section, September 7, 2003
"Uncreative License," review of Martin Duberman, Haymarket, Chicago Tribune "Books" section, January 11, 2004, pp. 1, 4.
"Creating an Interdisciplinary Course in History and Computer Science" (with Brian Dennis and Jonathan Smith), Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. L, No. 32 (pp. B9-B11
"Using Technology, Making History: A Collaborative Experiment in Interdisciplinary Teaching and Scholarship" (with Brian Dennis and Jonathan Smith), Rethinking History 8 (2004), 303-317
"'The Best Thing': The Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett Collections and the 1909 Plan of Chicago," in Art Through the Pages: Library Collections at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 2008), pp. 67-70.
