Education

M.A., Ph.D, University of Delaware

M.A., George Washington University

A.B., Barnard College

Teaching Experience

Professor and Director of Center for Regional and Baltimore Studies (CRABS), University of Baltimore

Associate Professor, 2002-present

Assistant Professor, 1998-2002

Clinical Assistant Professor, 1996-1998

Visiting Assistant Professor, 1995-1996

Instructor, History Department, University of Delaware; University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Essex Community College; and Baltimore International College, 1993-1995

Courses Taught

HIST 317: Early American History

HIST 381: American Cities

HIST 382: History of Baltimore

HIST 475: American Women's History

HIST 478: American Business and Labor History

HIST 478: American Business History

HIST 480: Introduction to Public History

HIST 493: Baltimore Studies

HIST 493: Giving: Philanthropy and Voluntarism in American Society

HIST 496: Public History Seminars:

History in the Community

Oral History and Community Documentation

Recreation, Leisure, and Race in an American City

HIST 497: Community History

HIST 497: American Cultural History

IDIS 303: Modern Cities

Publications

The Making of a Modern City: Philanthropy, Civic Culture and the Baltimore YMCA. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2001.

Breihan, Elfenbein, and Hollowak, eds., From Mobtown to Charm City: New Perspectives on Baltimore History, Baltimore MD: Maryland Historical Society Press, forthcoming

"'A Place of Resort and Help for Their Young Men': Baltimore's Black YMCA,1885-1925," in Breihan, Elfenbein, and Hollowak, eds., From Mobtown to Charm City: New Perspectives on Baltimore History, Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society Press, forthcoming.

Exhibit Review of the Jewish Museum of Maryland's Enterprising Emporiums: The Jewish Department Stores of Downtown Baltimore, Journal of American History, forthcoming.

Book Review of Carl Abbott's Political Terrain: Washington, D.C. from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 67, No. 1, February 2001, 160-161.

Exhibit Review of Baltimore City Life Museums' Blaustein Gallery, The Public Historian, Vol. 19, Fall 1997, 91-94.

"'I Want My Funeral Held in the Lunch Rooms': The Industrial Work of the YMCA, 1879-1944," Essays in Economic and Business History. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997, 191-207.

" 'An Agressive Christian Enterprise': The Baltimore YMCA and the Making of Institutional Legitimacy," in Mjagkij, Nina and Spratt, Margaret, Men and Women Adrift: The YMCA and YWCA in the City, New York, New York University Press, 1996.

"Philadelphia Board of Trade, 1833-1899," in Toll, Jean Barth and Gilliam, Mildred (editors), Invisible Philadelphia: Community through Voluntary Organizations. Philadelphia: Atwater Kent Museum, 1995.

Civics, Commerce, and Community: the History of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, 1889-1989. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, for The George Washington University Center for Washington Area Studies, 1989.

Papers And Talks Presented

"Faith Based Organizations and Urban Renewal: The Church of the Brethren in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., 1949-1974," 28th Annual Conference on Washington, D.C. Historical Studies, October 2001; and Society for American Regional and Planning History (SACRPH), Philadelphia, November 2001.

"Druid Hill YMCA, 1885-1925," SACRPH, Washington, D.C., November 1999; and People and Places in Time: Baltimore's Changing Landscapes, Public History Conference, University of Baltimore, September 1999.

"Community as Classroom: Experience's in Baltimore's Urban History," Social Science History Association, Chicago, IL, November, 1998.

"The Future of Baltimore's Past: A University Helps Rethink the Uses of Local History," National Council on Public History (NCPH), Austin, TX, April, 1998.

"Applying the Lessons of Service Learning: Good Intentions and Better Outcomes, Baltimore's Shriver Center," ARNOVA, Indianapolis, IN, December 1997.

"East Baltimore: A Laboratory for Community Planning, 1950-1997," SACRPH, Seattle, WA, October 1997.

"University-Community Involvement: A Baltimore Story," Maryland Women in Higher Education, Wye Mills, MD, June 1997.

"'The Art of Living with Others': The YMCA as Homemaker and Caretaker, 1880-1920," Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, CA, April 1997.

"Community Works: 150 Years of East Baltimore's History," Southern American Studies Association, Seaside, FL, February 1997.

Other Professional Experience

Board Member, National Council of Public History, 2001- present.

Board Member, Baltimore Heritage, 1995-2000.