The Michigan Colloquium on
Race and 20th Century American Political Development
presents a public lecture by:
PROFESSOR AMY B. BRIDGES
Professor of Political
Science and Adjunct Professor of History
University of California-San
Diego
"MANAGING THE PERIPHERY:
CONSTITUTIONS AND RACIAL ORDER IN THE AMERICAN WEST"
Thursday, April 1, 2004,
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Modern Languages Building,
Lecture Rm. 2
A scholar of city politics
and American political development, Amy Bridges is the author of A CITY IN THE
REPUBLIC: ANTEBELLUM NEW YORK AND THE ORIGINS OF MACHINE POLITICS (Cambridge
Univ. Press, 1984) and MORNING GLORIES: MUNICIPAL REFORM IN THE SOUTHWEST
(Princeton Univ. Press, 1997), among other works. She has served on the editorial boards of Urban Affairs
Quarterly and the Journal of
Policy History. Bridges is currently
writing, with Katherine Underwood, a study of contemporary city politics in the
southwest entitled Life After Districts. Bridges is also conducting research for a historical study, Adding
the West to the Progressive Era.
The program of the Colloquium
is made possible by the generous financial support of the Office of the Vice
President for Research and the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, as
well as the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies; the Center for Local,
State, and Urban Policy; the College of Literature, Science, and Arts; the
Departments of History, Political Science, and Sociology; the Gerald R. Ford
School of Public Policy; the National Poverty Center; and the Taubman College
of Architecture and Urban Planning.
For additional information, please contact colloquium organizers Matt
Lassiter, Tony Chen, and Robert Mickey at conveners@umich.edu.