Amanda Seligman

Professor, History
Affiliated Professor, Urban Studies

Education

PhD, Northwestern University, History (1999)
AB, Princeton University, Classics (1991)

Teaching Schedule

Course Num	Title	Meets	Syllabus
HIST 600-001	Seminar in History: Milwaukee: The Making of a Metropolis	MW 1pm-2:15pm
HIST 716-001	Professional and Pedagogical Issues in History	R 4pm-6:40pm

Courses Taught

Hist 294: Seminar on Historical Method - Research Techniques
Hist 450: History of Milwaukee
History 463: History of the American City
History 715: Professional and Pedagogical Issues in History
Hist 971: History of American Urban Problems

Teaching Interests

Poverty
Public Policy
US Cities
Urban Studies
Research Methods
Professional Development

Research Interests

Urban
Chicago and Milwaukee
Public Policy
Graduate School

Related Activities

Senior Editor, Encyclopedia of Milwaukee
Series Editor, Historical Studies of Urban America, University of Chicago Press

Selected Publications

Seligman, Amanda I., and Jaclyn J. Kelly. "Staging Historical Reenactments on Twitter: History, Methods, and Ethics." The History Teacher, vol. 57, no. 2 (February 2024): 179-209.

Seligman, Amanda I., and Anderson, Margo J. Encyclopedia of Milwaukee .

Seligman, Amanda I. "Milwaukee." In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Ed. Jane Dailey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Seligman, Amanda I. "Community-Based Organizations." In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Ed. Jane Dailey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Seligman, Amanda I. Chicago's Block Clubs: How Neighbors Shape the City Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2016.

Graf, Ann M., Seligman, Amanda I., and Anderson, Margo J. Bibliography of Metropolitan Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press. 2014.

Seligman, Amanda I. “Teaching Wikipedia without Apologies” Writing History in the Digital Age Ed. Dougherty, Jack, and Nawrotzki, Kristen. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. (2013): 121-129.

Seligman, Amanda I. “Urban History Encyclopedias: Public, Digital, Scholarly Projects” The Public Historian 35.2 (2013): 23-34.

Seligman, Amanda I. Is Graduate School Really for You: The Whos, Whats, Hows, and Whys of Pursuing a Master's or PhD The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2012.

Seligman, Amanda I. “‘But Burn, No’—The Rest of the Crowd in Three Civil Disorders in 1960s Chicago” The Journal of Urban History (2011).