MIMI COWAN.
HISTORIAN.
MY RESEARCH
CHICAGO
IMMIGRANTS
MILITIAS
IRISH&GERMAN
URBAN SPACE
DIGITAL
NATIVISM
Ph.D., History
"Immigrants, Nativists, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Chicago, 1835-1893"
December 2015
Recent Publication
“We know neither Catholics, nor Protestants, nor Free-Thinkers here”: Ethnicity, Religion, and the Chicago Public Schools, 1837-1894"
Religion in Greater Ireland
Colin Barr and Hilary Carey, eds.
Mc-Gill-Queen’s University Press, 2015
MY TEACHING
Courses Include:
> Introduction to Urban Studies
> American Immigration & Ethnicity
> Cities of the Century: NYC & Chicago
> Intro to American Studies
> Religion, Architecture, & Urban Space
> Chicago History
> Riots & Rebellions in U.S. History
> American Labor History
> The Operas of Verdi in 19th Century European Historical Context
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY:
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In-class discussion of primary and secondary historical materials;
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Reflection on and interaction with today's world;
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Mentoring tomorrow's thinkers.
MY PASSIONS
CURRENT PROJECT:
I'm using school records, census data, and city directories to create an interactive map charting where the students of Chicago's first Catholic schools lived in the city, as well as their nativity, parents' occupations & assets, & the students' eventual careers. This map will help us understand how education, immigration, and religion contributed to patterns of where people lived in nineteenth-century Chicago.
