Paige Glotzer
Position title: Assistant Professor & John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Chair in the History of American Politics, Institutions, and Political Economy
Email: pglotzer@wisc.edu
Phone: 608.263.1825
Address:
Curriculum Vitae (pdf) | Building Surburban Power
Office: 4116 Mosse Humanities Bldg.
Mailbox: 4024 Mosse Humanities Bldg.
Office Hours: TBA
Biography
I research the history of housing segregation in the nineteenth and twentieth century. My first book, entitled How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960, was published by Columbia University Press as part of its Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism series. It charts how suburban developers, including Baltimore’s Roland Park Company, ushered in modern housing segregation with the help of transnational financiers, real estate institutions, and public policymakers. The effects of their efforts continue to be felt today. Portions of my research have been published in the Journal of Urban History and Public Seminar. My work has also been featured in The CityLab and Time.
I am also interested in the connections between the rise of Jim Crow and colonialism and slavery worldwide. My digital project maps the British investors who financed one of the first segregated suburbs in the United States. In keeping with this turn toward global urban history, my current book project focuses on the interactions between American realtors and Latin American consumers in the mid-twentieth century.
My teaching interests include U.S. history, transnational history, cities, business, and politics. Regardless of the specific topic, I alert students to the historical dimension of processes they might take to be natural.
In addition to conducting research and teaching, I have been invited to lead tours and give talks.
Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
M.A., Johns Hopkins University
B.A., New York University
Books
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Paige Glotzer. How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960. Columbia University Press, 2020.
Selected Publications
- “Redlining, Predatory Inclusion, and Housing Segregation,” Black Perspectives, Mar. 10, 2021.
- “The Connections Between Urban Investment and Colonialism.” Black Perspectives. Nov. 27, 2017.
- “Who Bankrolled Jim Crow?” Public Seminar. Sept. 22, 2015.
- “Exclusion in Arcadia: How Suburban Developers Circulated Ideas about Discrimination, 1890-1950.” The Journal of Urban History, vol. 41 no. 3, 2015 pp 479-49.
Selected Awards
- Winner, Lewis Mumford Prize for Best Book in American City and Regional Planning History, 2022, Society for American City and Regional Planning History.
- Honorable Mention, First Book Prize, International Planning History Society, 2022.
- 2021 Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book in North American History
- 2021 Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History (for How the Suburbs Were Segregated)
- Fall Research Competition, University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education
- UW-Madison Center for the Humanities First Book Award
- Austin Kerr Prize for Best First Paper Presented at the Business History Conference
- Maryland Historical Society Lord Baltimore Fellowship
Advisor To
- Verenize Arceo
- James Meadows (with Walter Stern)
History Courses
- History 102 – U.S. History since the Civil War – Syllabus 2019 (pdf)
- History 200 – Capitalism and America – Syllabus 2019 (pdf)
- History 201 – The Historians Craft: Digital History and the American City – Syllabus 2018 (pdf)
- History 201 – The Historians Craft: The History of American Inequality – Syllabus 2023 (pdf)
- History 221 – Introduction to US Urban History
- History 221 – Business and Politics in American History – Syllabus 2018 (pdf)
- History 329 – History of American Capitalism – Syllabus 2023 (pdf)
- History 901 – U.S. Urban History, 1619-Present – Syllabus 2021 (pdf)
- History 901 – The History of U.S. Political Economy since 1865 – Syllabus 2019 (pdf)
- History 901 – History Takes Place