Research Keywords

• U.S. Progressive Era, U.S. Urban History and Comparative Processes of Urbanization, Women and Politics

Research Areas

• Comparative, Political, Urban, Women & Gender

Time Periods

• 19th Century, 20th Century/Contemporary

Affiliations

• MATRIX/H-Net

Recent or current courses

• HST 410 - History of North American Urbanization (Spring 2010)
• HST 305 - The Making of the Modern U.S. (Fall 2009)
• HST 110 - Historical Approach to Contemporary Issues (Fall 2009)

Significant Scholarly Activities

Books

• Maureen A. Flanagan, AMERICA REFORMED: PROGRESSIVES AND PROGRESSIVISMS, 1890S-1920S. Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Maureen A. Flanagan, SEEING WITH THEIR HEARTS: CHICAGO WOMEN AND THE VISION OF THE GOOD CITY, 1871-1933. Princeton University Press, 2002.
• Maureen A. Flanagan, CHARTER REFORM IN CHICAGO. Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.

Journal Articles

• Maureen A. Flanagan. ""The Workshop or the Home? Gender Visions in the History of Urban Built Environments: Canada and the United States"." London Journal of Canadian Studies 22.2006/2007 (September 2007): 59-84.

Presentations

• Maureen A. Flanagan, "The Workshop or the Home? Conflicting Visions of the Urban Built Environment in North America," , "Gender and the City". London, United Kingdom, 24 February 2006.
• Maureen Flanagan, ""Pushing Women to the Margins in the Patriarchal City: Chicago, Toronto, Dublin, and London, 1870s-1940s"," , Urban History Group, Annual Conference, March 2008. Nottingham, United Kingdom, March 28, 2008.
• Maureen Flanagan, ""'The Cottage Home Is Very Much to Be Preferred to the Tenement': Gender and Housing in Chicago, Dublin, and London"," Population Explosions and Urban Housing in Comparative Contexts, Urban History Association, Biennial Conference. Houston. Texas, , November 7, 2008.

Awards, Fellowships & Grants

• NEH Fellowship for University Professors
• Fulbright Senior Lecturer
• Illinois State Historical Society Superior Achievement recognition for book, Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933