Professor Henry Binford (History)
e-mail: hcbin@nwu.edu
phone: 847-491-7262
office hours: Wednesday, 10-12 a.m., Harris 102B

• Henry C. Binford has taught at Northwestern since 1973. He has served as director of the American Studies Program, the Program in Urban Studies, and the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program. His research deals generally with three themes: urban growth, technological innovation, and the ways people of diverse cultures have both shaped and been shaped by their urban and technological environments. He is the author of The First Suburbs: Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery, 1815-1860, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1985. He is currently working on a book about nineteenth-century slums.

Professor Diane Dillon (Art History)
e-mail: d-dillon@nwu.edu
phone: 847-467-1069
office hours: Kresge 258

Professor Carl Smith (English)
e-mail: cjsmith@nwu.edu
phone: 847-491-7136
office hours: Tuesday, Thursday, 9:15-10:15 a.m., University Hall 306

• Carl Smith is currently professor of English, American Studies, and History, and is Assistant Dean for Freshmen in Weinberg College. His research centers on the imaginative dimensions of large-scale social developments, with an emphasis on American urban life of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. His latest book is Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (Chicago, 1995), and he is currently working on water and American cities in the nineteenth century. He is also interested in the development of electronic resources in teaching American studies. He is curator of the electronic web exhibition, The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory (http://www.chicagohs.org/fire).

Professor David Van Zanten (Art History)
e-mail: d-van@nwu.edu
phone: 847-491-8024
office hours: Wednesday 10-12 a.m., Kresge 262

• David Van Zanten studies architecture and urbanism at the time of the emergence of modern industrial culture. He has published books and articles on Chicago and Paris (Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament, Designing Paris, Building Paris). He is currently working on a book about Louis Sullivan as well as on a broader project focusing on the creation of the industrial/commercial city in the 1840's, focusing on Manchester (UK), London, Hamburg (Ge) and Chicago.

John Martin (Research Assistant)
e-mail: jem@nwu.edu
phone: 847-491-4991
office hours: Monday 11-12, Thursday 10-11, University 420

• John Martin is a graduate student in the English Department who is currently preparing for qualifying exams in American literature. He has particular interests in religion and literature, gothicism, psychoanalysis and American poetry, and is planning a dissertation on Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, and the "Confessional Poets". He is also a co-coordinator of the English Graduate Student Organization (EGSO). John is a great fan of the Chicago blues scene, Chicago sports, and, of course, the Graveyards of Chicago.

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