LANCASTER, Pa. - Robin Bachin, director of American studies at the University of Miami, will discuss Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919 on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bonchek Lecture Hall of Franklin & Marshall's new Barshinger Life Scienes and Philosophy Builidng. The talk, sponsored by the Center for Liberal Arts and Society, is free and open to the public. Bachin is also the Charlton W. Tebeau Associate Professor of History at the University of Miami. She received her B.A. from Brandeis University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. Her areas of research and teaching include American urban, environmental, immigration, sport, and cultural history. Her first book, Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004 and won the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Illinois History and Heritage. Bachin’s current book project, Home Away from Home: The Transformation of Seaside Recreation on the East Coast, 1865-2000, focuses on the rapid commercialization of seaside resorts in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bachin was awarded the John Reps Prize for distinguished dissertation in urban planning history; the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Scholarly Excellence. In addition, she has received fellowships from the Graham Foundation for the Advancement of the Fine Arts, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Driehaus Foundation. She also a University of Miami Library Fellowship to create a digital archive on "Travel, Tourism, and Urban Growth in Greater Miami" (http://scholar.library.miami.edu/miamidigital). Bachin also served as guest curator of an exhibition at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach entitled "In Pursuit of Pleasure: Schultze and Weaver and the American Hotel," which ran from November 2005 through May 2006. Princeton Architectural Press published the exhibition catalogue, Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age. Bachin is president-elect of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History, and serves on the board of directors of the Urban History Association. She also is a member of the executive board of the Miami Consortium for Urban Studies and a founding member of the Urban Environment League. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Miami, she was the assistant director of the Scholl Center for Family and Community History at the Newberry Library in Chicago, where she served as project coordinator for the National Park Service's Labor History Landmark Project. -30- |
