MARGO ANDERSON
Distinguished
Professor, Emerita: American History
(414) 229-4361
Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1978
Recent Publications and Research Interests:. Margo Anderson is
Distinguished Professor Emerita [ History & Urban Studies] at the University of
Wisconson - Milwaukee. She specializes in American social, urban and women's
history and has research interests in both urban history and the history of the
social sciences and the development of statistical data systems, particularly
the census. Her publications include the second edition of The American Census: A Social History (Yale University Press, 2015); Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census: From the Constitution to the American Community Survey (ACS), 2d ed. (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2011), coedited with Constance F. Citro and Joseph J. Salvo; and a coedited volume with Victor Greene, Perspectives on Milwaukee's Past
(University of Illinois Press, 2009). With UWM Professor Amanda Seligman, she is Lead Editor of the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee. In 2006 she served as the President of the
Social Science History Association.
Dr. Anderson can be reached at http://margoanderson.org or margo@uwm.edu
Last updated August 2018