Dr. Alan Lessoff
University Professor
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 327
Office Hours
MWF, 11-12
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- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Current Courses
HIS 398.001 Professional Practice: Internship In History
HIS 498.001 Professional Practice: Public/Applied History
HIS 322.001 American Urban History
HIS 422.001 American Urban History
HIS 135.007 History Of The United States To 1865
HIS 135.008 History Of The United States To 1865
HIS 299.002 Independent Honor Study
HIS 499.008 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
HIS 398.001 Professional Practice: Internship In History
HIS 498.001 Professional Practice: Public/Applied History
HIS 490.004 Readings -- Field Of Study
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
Alan Lessoff.
(2015), University of Texas Press
Book, Chapter
Oil Ports and Hurricanes along the Texas Coast
Alan Lessoff.
(2025), 221-248, Natural Disasters in the United States: Making Sense of Risks and Vulnerability, Springer
Lewis Mumford, Thomas Welskopp, and the Art of the Usable Past
Alan Lessoff.
(2021), 431-446, Entbehrung und Erfullung: Praktiken von Arbeit, Körper, und Konsum in der Geschichte moderner Gesellschaften, Dietz
The Original North American Petroleumscape: Oil-and-Gas Empire, Petrochemical Nation
Carola Hein, Alan Lessoff.
(2021), 4-42, Oil Space: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape, Routledge
“’Leur moralité est celle de leur entourage’: Le bossisme américain et la conception outre-Atlantique de la corruption urbaine moderne.”
Alan Lessoff.
(2021), 45-81, Maudire le ville: Socio-histoire comparée de la dénonciation de la corruption urbaine, Septentrion
Art and Architecture
Alan Lessoff.
(2017), A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Wiley-Blackwell
The Gilded Age City in American Political Discourse and Lore
Alan Lessoff.
(2017), Stadt—Macht—Korruption, Franz Steiner Verlag
Book, Edited
Fractured Modernity: America Confronts Modern Times, 1890s to 1940s
Alan Lessoff, Thomas Welskopp.
(2012), Oldenbourg Verlag
Journal Article
The Texas Coast: Ship Channel Network of the Petroleum Age
Alan Lessoff.
Urban Planning, 8 (3), 330-345, (2023)
Urban History and the Transnational Perspective
Alan Lessoff.
Yearbook of Transnational History, 3 (2020), 179-213, (2020)
James Bryce, William T. Stead, and the Trans-Atlantic Meaning of the American City
Alan Lessoff.
International Journal of Regional and Local History, 14 (2), 76-93, (2019)
From Political Insult to Political Theory: The Boss, the Machine, and the Pluralist City
Alan Lessoff, James J. Connolly, .
Journal of Policy History, 25 (2), 139-72, (2013)