Margo Anderson


Distinguished Professor: American History
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Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1978

Recent Publications and Research Interests:. Margo Anderson is Distinguished Professor of 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). In 2006 she served as the President of the Social Science History Association.

Dr. Anderson can be reached at margo@uwm.edu