Dr. Alan Lessoff
University Professor
History
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 327
Office Hours
MW, 3:30--5
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Research
Current Courses
398.001Professional Practice: Internship In History
498.001Professional Practice: Public/Applied History
322.001American Urban History
499.008Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
398.001Professional Practice: Internship In History
498.001Professional Practice: Public/Applied History
490.004Readings -- Field Of Study
300.005Senior Seminar In History
Teaching Interests & Areas
U.S. and comparative urban history
U.S. Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Research Interests & Areas
U.S. urban and local history.
U.S. Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Ph D History
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
MA History
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
BA History
Cambridge University
Cambridge, England
BA History
Columbia University
New York, NY
Book, Authored
Where Texas Meets the Sea: Corpus Christi and Its History (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015).
Book, Chapter
with Carola Hein. “The Original North American Petroleumscape: Oil-and-Gas Empire, Petrochemical Nation.” Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape. Ed Carola Hein. London: Routledge, 2021. Pp. 4-42.
“Lewis Mumford, Thomas Welskopp, and the Art of the Usable Past.” Entbehrung und Erfüllung: Praktiken von Arbeit, Körper und Konsum in der Geschichte moderner Gesellschaften. Ed. Gleb Albert, Daniel Siemens, and Frank Wolff. Bonn: Dietz, 2021. Pp. 431-46.
“’Leur moralité est celle de leur entourage’: Le bossisme américain et la conception outre-Atlantique de la corruption urbaine moderne.” Maudire le ville: Socio-histoire comparée de la dénonciation de la corruption urbaine. Ed. Nicolas Maisetti and Cesare Mattina. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Septentrion, 2021. Pp. 45-81.
“Art and Architecture.” A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. ed. Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. Unger. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. Pp. 151-64.
“The Gilded Age City in American Political Discourse and Lore.” Stadt—Macht—Korruption, ed. Jens-Ivo Engels, et al. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. Pp. 143-54.
Book, Edited
ed. with Thomas Welskopp. Fractured Modernity: America Confronts Modern Times, 1890s to 1940s (Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2012).
Journal Article
“The Texas Coast: Ship Channel Network of the Petroleum Age,” Urban Planning 8, n. 3 (2023): 330-345 (https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning).
“Urban History and the Transnational Perspective.” Yearbook of Transnational History 3 (2020): 179-213.
“James Bryce, William T. Stead, and the Trans-Atlantic Meaning of the American City.” International Journal of Regional and Local History 14, n. 2 (Nov. 2019): 76-93.
with James J. Connolly. "From Political Insult to Political Theory: The Boss, the Machine, and the Pluralist City." Journal of Policy History 25, n. 2 (Spring 2013): 139-72.