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Dr Andrew HeathPh.D. (Pennsylvania)Lecturer in American History 19th century US history; urban history
Office Hours: Autumn 2013-14 - Tuesdays 9-11am |
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Biography
Andrew Heath joined the History Department in 2008. He read History from 1997 to 2001 at University College London, before receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Bristol University. Andrew's research interests lie at the intersection of the political, urban, and social history of the Nineteenth-Century U.S. His dissertation, which won the 2008 Urban History Association Prize for the best thesis in Urban History, explores how the optimism and anxiety engendered by America´s imperial expansion over the Civil War years shaped the way citizens imagined, built, and used the city of Philadelphia. He is currently revising it for publication. Membership of Professional Bodies
Research
Current Research My current research project focuses on the growth of Philadelphia between 1837 and 1877. I am exploring how the theory and practice of 'manifest destiny' structured social relations, economic development, political culture, and urban design in a city on the Atlantic fringe of America's continental empire.
Research Interests My work lies primarily in the political, social, and spatial history of the nineteenth-century American city. I probe links between the internal dynamics of U.S. cities and national and transnational factors such as imperial expansion, sectional tension, and European urbanism. I use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) software extensively in my work on Philadelphia. For my next project I intend to explore how deindustrialisation shaped the social, political, and spatial relations of two steel cities: Sheffield and Pittsburgh. By looking at institutions like unions, universities, trade associations, and spaces such as streets, housing developments, and civic plazas I hope to shed light on the making of the post-industrial metropolis.
Research Supervision I am happy to supervise students working on urban history or the political and social history of the nineteenth-century United States. Along with Dr Charles West, Andrew supervises a student-led oral history project, Witness, which in 2010-11 is exploring life in Sheffield during the 1980s. Any students interested in getting involved are welcome to contact him. Responsibilities
Selected Publications
- '"Every Man His Own Landlord": Working-Class Suburban Speculation and the Antebellum Republican City', Journal of Urban History (Online First, April 2012), pp. 1-18. - ‘The Public Interest of the Private City: The Pennsylvania Railroad, Urban Space, and Philadelphia’s Economic Elite, 1846-1877’, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 79:2 (Spring 2012), pp. 177-208. - ‘”The Producers on the One Side, and the Capitalists on the Other”: Labor Reform, Slavery, and the Career of a Transatlantic Radical, 1838-1873’, American Nineteenth Century History (forthcoming, 2012). - 'Virtual Rountable on an Absence of Empire: American Urban History and the Incorporation of Imperialism', NeoAmericanist (2010) - 'Philadelphia 1828-1854, 1854-1877, and 1877-1896' in eds. Richardson Dilworth et al, Cities in American History, (Washington D.C.: CQ Press, 2011) - 'Labor and Unions' in ed. Christopher Bates, Encyclopaedia of the Early Republic & Antebellum America, (New York: M. E. Sharpe: forthcoming) - The Manifest Destiny of Philadelphia: Imperialism, Republicanism, and the Remaking of a city and its People, 1837-1877 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2008) Book reviews for American Nineteenth-Century History and Journal of American Studies
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