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Margo Anderson

  • Distinguished Professor Emerita, History
  • Affiliated Professor Emerita, Urban Studies

Education

PhD, Rutgers University, 1978

Research Interests

Professor Anderson specializes in urban history, particularly of Milwaukee, and in social and demographic history of the United States.

Selected Publications

Margo Anderson and William Seltzer, Use and Misuse of the United States Census: The Role of Data in the Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II (New York: Springer, 2024). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-38619-0
Anderson, Margo J. “Public Management of Big Data: Historical Lessons from the 1940s” Federal History 15. (2015): 17-34.
Anderson, Margo. The American Census: A Social History, Second Edition New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2015.
Anderson, Margo J. “Baker V. Carr, the Census, and the Political and Statistical Geography” Case Western Reserve Law Review 62.4 (2012): 1-24.
. Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census: From the Constitution to the American Community Survey (ACS), 2d edition Ed. Anderson, Margo J. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 2011.
Anderson, Margo J., and Seltzer, William . “Federal Statistical Confidentiality and Business Data: Twentieth Century Challenges and Continuing Issues"” Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality 1.1 (2009): 7-52, 55-58.
. Perspectives on Milwaukee's Past Ed. Anderson, Margo J., and Greene, Victor. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2009.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.