Outline: Robert D. Lewis
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Professor PhD McGill University (1992) MA McGill University (1985) BA University of Toronto (1982) Phone: (416) 978-1590 Location: Room 5037, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: lewis@geog.utoronto.ca |
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| Research Interests |
| Historical geography of North American economic restructuring Industrial and social geography of suburban Chicago, 1850-1950 Wartime manufacturing and metropolitan growth Colonial urban India and social exclusion |
| Selected Publications |
| Lewis, R. “Modern Industrial Policy and Zoning: Chicago, 1910-1930,” Urban History, forthcoming. |
| Lewis, R. 2010. "Place-Based Corporate Hegemony: General Electric in
Tell City, Indiana, 1943-1947," Journal of Historical Geography 36:
432-40.
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| Cooke J. and R Lewis. 2010. “Bridging Nature: the Urban Political Ecology of Capital Circulation in Chicago, 1909-1930,” Urban Geography 31: 348-68. |
| Lewis, R. 2009. “Rationalizing the Workplace: Canadian Textile Firms, 1929-1935," Enterprise and Society 10: 498-528. |
| Lewis, R. 2009. Industrial districts and manufacturing linkages: Chicago's printing industry, 1880-1950. Economic History Review 62: 366-87. |
| Lewis, R. 2008. Networking Chicago: Manufacturing Networks and the Metropolitan Industrial Landscape, 1865-1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. |
| Lewis, R. 2007. World War Two and southern industrialization in the 1940s. Journal of Southern History 73(4): 1-30. |
| Lewis, R. 2004. Planned districts in Chicago: firms, networks and boundaries, 1900-1940. Journal of Planning History 3: 29-49. |
| Lewis, R. (ed.) 2004. The Manufacturing Suburb: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. |
| Lewis, R. 2003. Local production practices and Chicago's automotive industry, 1900-1930. Business History Review 77: 611-38. |
| Lewis, R. 2000. Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850-1930. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. |
| Teaching (2011-2012) |
| Fall term: ON LEAVE |
