Margo Anderson

Professor

Office: Holton 320
Phone: (414) 229-3969
e-mail: margo@uwm.edu
Web Site: http://www.uwm.edu/~margo

Degree(s):

Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1978

Research Interests:

Professor Anderson specializes in the social history of the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Teaching Areas:

American social history, women’s history, urban history

Courses Offered:

History 141: Family and Sex Roles in the Past
History 595: Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data
History 600: Seminar in History
History 713: Historical Research Methods
Urban Studies 984: Research Project in Urban Institutions

Other Activities:

Current Research Collaboration: Documenting Individual Identity, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, England, http://documentingindividualidentity.com/

Recent Publications and Awards:

Margo Anderson and Victor Greene, eds., Perspectives on Milwaukee's Past (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009).

William Seltzer and Margo Anderson, "Using Population Data Systems to Target Vulnerable Population Subgroups and Individuals: Issues and Incidents," in Statistical Methods for Human Rights, Jana Asher, David Banks, and Fritz S. Scheuren, eds. (New York: Springer, 2008), 273-328.

Margo Anderson, "The Census, Audiences and Publics," Social Science History 32:1 (Spring 2008), 1-18.

Margo Anderson, "Using National Census Data to Study Change," Handbook of Longitudinal Research: Design, Measurement, and Analysis, edited by Scott Menard (Academic Press, 2008), 13-31.