Urban History

Related Faculty

Arbella Bet-Shlimon
Associate Professor
Williams Family Endowed Professor in History
Madeleine Yue Dong
Professor
Joint Appointment: Jackson School of International Studies
Raymond Jonas
Professor
Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History
Margaret O'Mara
Professor
Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Chair of American History
Aditya Ramesh
Assistant Professor
Travis Wright
Assistant Professor

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Related Research

Bùi, Alvin Khiêm. "Digital Vietnam: State of the ‘State of the Field’, Saigonese Motorbike YouTubers, and Diasporic Vietnamese Social Memories of the Republic of Việt Nam." Asiascape: Digital Asia 10, no. 1-2 (2023): 74-95.
Eric Johnson, "When endemic met epidemic: cholera, chronic disease and public health in Kazan, 1788–1842," Urban History (2020).
Bet-Shlimon, Arbella. City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019.
Gregory. James N., ed. The Seattle General Strike Centennial Edition by Robert L. Friedheim. Introduction, photo essay, and afterword by James Gregory. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. Print.
Jesse Meredith, "Decolonizing the New Town: Roy Gazzard and the Making of Killingworth Township," Journal of British Studies 57, 2 (April 2018): 333-362.
Reagan, Michael. "Capital City: New York in Fiscal Crisis." PhD diss., University of Washington, 2017.
McKenna, Kevin. "Safer Sex: Gay Politics and the Remaking of Liberalism in Seattle, 1966-1995." PhD diss., University of Washington, 2017.
Johnson, Eric. "'Our Dear Kazan': Urban Initiatives and Imperial Legacies, 1774-1860." PhD diss., University of Washington, 2017.
Bet-Shlimon, Arbella. "State-Society Relations in the Urban Spheres of Baghdad and Kirkuk, 1920-58." In Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako, and Fadi Dawood, eds., State and Society in Iraq: Citizenship Under Occupation, Dictatorship, and Democratization. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017. 50-68. Print.
Gregory. James. “Left Coast City: The History of a Political Reputation.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly (Spring 2016): 72-86.

Urban History

Arbella Bet-Shlimon

Madeleine Yue Dong

Raymond Jonas

Margaret O'Mara

Aditya Ramesh

Travis Wright