Associate Dean, The Graduate School
Loyola University Chicago
Granada Center 450
6525 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626
773-508-8949
pmooney@luc.edu
Patricia Mooney-Melvin is associate professor of history at
Loyola University Chicago, where she teaches American and public
history and serves as the Associate Dean of the Graduate School. She
is the co-editor, with Robert B. Fairbanks, of Making Sense of
the City: Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in American
Cities (Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 2001). Other publications
include The Organic City: Urban Definition and Neighborhood Organization
1880-1920 (Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1987), and Reading
Your Neighborhood: A History of East Rogers Park (Chicago: Loyola
Univ., 1993), which was awarded a Certificate of Excellence by the
Illinois State Historical Society in 1994. Mooney-Melvin was educated
at the University of Cincinnati (Ph.D. 1978) where she worked with
Professor Zane L. Miller. She has published numerous articles in journals
such as The Public Historian, American Quarterly, American
Studies, and Mid-America. She has been project director
for and/or prepared exhibits on the Jesuits in Mid-America, women
in Arkansas history, the Ohio Labor History Project, the Kingsley
History Project, and the East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project.
She has served on the editorial boards of The Public Historian,
Mid-America, and Queen City Heritage. She has participated
in various projects with museums, including the Chicago Historical
Society, The Old State House, and the Ohio Historical Society. Mooney-Melvin
is a past president of the National Council on Public History. She
has been member of the American Historical Association's Committee
on the Master's Degree in History. She recently completed an analysis
of MA-Public history programs for the National Council on Public History.
Courses, Fall 2006
History
202: The United States Since 1865
History
480: Public History: Method and Theory
History
581: Practicum in Public History
History
582: Public History Internship
Current Research
Urban Memory and Memorial Landscapes
Neighborhoods and Settlements
Publications
Books
Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture,
and Community Life in American Cities. Editor with Robert B.
Fairbanks. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001.
The Organic City: Urban Definition and Neighborhood Organization
1880-1920. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
The Urbanization of Modern America. 2nd Edition. With Zane
L. Miller. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.
American Community Organizations: A Historical Dictionary.
Editor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Other Publications
"The Path from Our Founding to Our Future: A City Tour of Loyola
University Chicago's Historic Downtown Sites." Walking Tour Brochure.
Loyola University. September 1995.
Reading Your Neighborhood: A History of East Rogers Park.
Chicago: Loyola University, 1993. Awarded Certificate of Excellence,
Illinois State Historical Society, Spring 1994.
Rogers Park Montessori School 1966-1991. Chicago: RPMS,
1991.
"Ohio Quilts and Quilters 1800-1981." The College of Wooster.
Wooster, Ohio, 1981. [Exhibition Catalog.]
"Tracing the Quiltmaker." Guide #1. American Quilt Study Group.
1987.
Articles
"Before the Neighborhood Revolution: Cincinnati's Neighborhood
Improvement Associations, 1890-1940, " in Making Sense of the
City: Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in American
Cities, eds. Robert B. Fairbanks and Patricia Mooney-Melvin,
95-118. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001.
"Professional Historians and the Challenge of Redefinition," in
Public History: Essays From the Field, eds. James B. Gardner
and Peter LaPaglia, 5-21. Malabar, FA: Krieger Press, 1999.
"Urban History, Local History, and Public History." History
News 51 (Spring 1996): 18-23.
"Beyond the Book: Historians and the Interpretive Challenge."
The Public Historian 17 (Fall 1995): 75-82.
"Professional Historians and 'Destiny's Gate.'" The Public
Historian 17 (Summer 1995): 9-24.
"Harnessing the Romance of the Past: Preservation, Tourism, and
History." The Public Historian 13 (Spring 1991): 35-48.
"Using the Past: Public History at Loyola." Origins 7 (1991):
3.
"In Quest of the Professional Historian: The Introduction to Public
History Course." The Public Historian 9 (Summer 1987): 67-79.
"The Neighborhood-City Relationship" in American Urbanism:
A Historiographical Review, eds. Howard Gillette, Jr. and Zane
L. Miller, 257-270. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987.
"Changing Contexts: Neighborhood Definition and Urban Organization."
American Quarterly 37 (1985): 357-367.
"Milk to Motherhood: the New York Milk Committee and the Beginning
of Well-Child Programs." Mid-America 65 (October 1983): 111-134.
"Building Muscles and Civics: Folk Dancing, Ethnic Diversity and
the Playground Association of America." American Studies
24 (Spring 1983): 89-99.
"Steamboats West: The Legacy of a Transportation Revolution."
The Old Northwest 7 (Winter 1981-1982): 339-357.
"'Rock of Ages' v. the Age of Rocks." Radical Historians Newsletter
38 (November 1982): 2, 6.
"The Humanities, History, and Urban Policy," in The Humanities,
The City and The University: Applying Human Values to Urban Problems,
ed. John Miller, 21-25. Little Rock, AR, 1981.
"A Cluster of Interlacing Communities: The Cincinnati Social Unit
Plan and the First Community Organization Movement 1900-1920," in
Community Organization for Urban Social Change: A Historical
Perspective, eds. Peter Romanofsky and Robert Fisher, 59-88.
Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1981. Reprinted in Poverty and
Public Policy in Modern America, ed. Donald T. Critchlow and
Ellis W. Hawley, 65-82. Chicago: Dorsey Press, 1988.
"Mohawk-Brighton: A Pioneer in Neighborhood Health Care." Cincinnati
Historical Society Bulletin 36 (Spring 1978): 57-72.
"Make Milwaukee Safe for Babies: The Child Welfare Commission
and the Development of Urban Health Centers 1911-1912." Journal
of the West 17 (Spring 1978): 83-93.
"The Woman in Indian Miniature Painting." Graduate Research
Bulletin 1 (Spring 1975): 25-32.
Encyclopedia Articles
"Rogers Park," in the Encyclopedia of Chicago History,
eds. James Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, and Jan Reiff, 714-715.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
"West Ridge," in the Encyclopedia
of Chicago History, eds. James Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating,
and Jan Reiff, 872-873. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
"Samuel Jay Crumbine," in American National Biography,
Vol. 5, eds. John Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 818-820. New York:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.
"Lincoln Steffens," in American National Biography, Vol.
20, eds. John Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 614-616. New York: Oxford
Univ. Press, 1999.
"The Great and Little Miami Rivers," in Rolling Rivers: An
Encyclopedia of America's Rivers, ed. Richard A. Bartlett. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.
Sketches of five Cincinnati Mayors, in the Biographical Dictionary
of American Mayors, 1820-1980, eds. Melvin G. Holli and Peter
d'A. Jones. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Published Oral History Interviews
Thompson, St. Clair. Oral History Interview. Vicksburg District.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 1990.
Book Reviews
Reviews of books in the following fields--urban history, women's
history, social welfare history, material culture, and public history--have
appeared in the Journal of American History, the Journal
of Southern History, the American Historical Review, The
Public Historian, The Historian, the Georgia Historical Quarterly,
Minnesota History, Ohio History, Tampa Bay History, Historical Review,
Pennsylvania History, Northwest Ohio Quarterly, The Economic History
Review, Planning Perspectives, The Western Historical Quarterly,
the Great Lakes Review, Annals of Iowa, and the Indiana
Magazine of History.
Exhibit Reviews
"July, 1942: United We Stand." Kathleen Kendrick, Helena
Wright, and Marilyn Zoidis, curators. Smithsonian Institution, March
22-October 27, 2002. The Public Historican 25 (Spring 2003):
115-119.
"Grand Illusions: Chicago's World's Fair of 1893." William de Wit,
curator. Chicago Historical Society, May 1, 1993-July 15, 1994.
The Public Historian 16 (Spring 1994), 141-143.
Selected Presentations
"Remembering Workers in "The City That Works." Joint
meeting. National Council on Public History and the Organization of
American Historians. April 21, 2006.
"Women's Memorial Landscape in Chicago." Women's and Gender
Historians in the Midwest. June 12, 2004.
"Reading Your Neighborhood: The East Rogers Park Neighborhood
History Project." American Historical Association. January
5, 2003.
"Public History Training: An Overview of the NCPH Survey of
MA Programs." American Association for State and Local History.
September 26, 2002.
"The Landscape of Urban Memory: Women in Chicago," National
Council on Public History. April 2001.
"Clio Meets the Glass Ceiling: NCPH's Survey of Public History
Graduates." National Council on Public History/the Organization
of American Historians. March 30, 2000.
"A 'Petrified Congress of Nations': The Physical Representation
of Chicago's Ethnic Experience." National Council on Public
History. April 17, 1998.
"Neighborhood Organizing and Community Organizations, 1880-1950."
Cleveland State University. April 17, 1997.
"What Did You Do After Graduation? Results from the NCPH Survey
of Public History Program Graduates." National Council on Public
History. May 2, 1997.
"Chicago's Neighborhoods." The Chicago Architecture Foundation.
February 3, 1996.
"A History of East Rogers Park." The Chicago Architecture
Foundation. May 24, 1995.
"Professional Historians and 'Destiny's Gate"'. Presidential
Address. National Council on Public History. April 1, 1995.
"Reading Your Neighborhood: A History of East Rogers Park."
Urban History Seminar. Chicago Historical Society. December 8, 1994.
"Teaching Chicago and Illinois History: Topics, Textbooks,
Readings, and Research." Illinois History Symposium. December
2, 1994.
Before the Neighborhood Organization Revolution: Cincinnati Improvement
Associations, 1890-1950." The Working Paper Series, H-Urban
Seminar on the History of Community Organization and Community-Based
Development, Spring 1997 and Seminar on the City, Cincinnati Historical
Society, November 9, 1994.
"Local Improvement Associations and the City-Building Process."
The New England Historical Association, April 23, 1994.
Public History Activities
Museums
Consultant, Erie Neighborhood House History Project, 2003-2005.
Focus Group. Frances Willard Historical Society, 2004.
Consultant, Teen Chicago. Chicago Historical Society 2002-2004.
Consultant, Isolation is an Illusion, NEH Planning Grant.
Geneva History Center, 2003.
Consultant. Self-Study Focus Group. Evanston Historical Society.
August 1995.
Consultant. Interpretive Strategy Project. Lake County Museum.
June 1995.
Guest Curator. Behold Our Works Were Good Exhibition. In
conjunction with the Arkansas Women's History Institute. The Old
State House. Little Rock, Arkansas. 1986.
Consultant. Historical Ozark Quilts and Quiltmakers. Rogers
History Museums. Rogers, Arkansas. 1983-1985.
Guest Researcher, Consultant, and Lecturer. Only a Few Remain....Early
Grand Hotels of Arkansas. The Old State House. Little Rock,
Arkansas, 1982-1983. Activities included: gallery talk: Only
a Few Remain... and television appearances of "Good Morning
Arkansas," Channel 7, Little Rock, Arkansas and "Arkansas Continuum,"
AETN, Conway, Arkansas.
Consultant and Lecturer. Nineteenth Century Southern Quilts.
The Old State House. Little Rock, Arkansas, 1982. Activities included
a gallery talk: "Southern Quilts."
Guest Curator, Ohio Quilts and Quilters 1800-1981. Exhibition.
Frick Art Gallery. The College of Wooster, 1981.
Curator, Ohio Labor History Project, Ohio Historical Society,
1977-1979. Responsibilities included researching and writing exhibits,
acquisition and care of artifacts, and public presentations.
Exhibitions
Agents of Change: The Jesuits and Mid-America. Traveling
Exhibit. Loyola University Chicago. 1992-1993.
Behold Our Works Were Good. In conjunction with the Arkansas
Women's History Institute. The Old State House. Little Rock, Arkansas.
July-August 1986.
Education in Arkansas, UALR Library. University of Arkansas
at Little Rock. Little Rock, Arkansas. 1983.
Election Exhibits. In conjunction with the UALR Archives and Special
Collections. Arkansas State Capitol. Little Rock, Arkansas. May-June
and November 1982.
Arkansas Women in Politics. In conjunction with the Women's
Studies Program, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Arkansas
State Capitol. Little Rock, Arkansas. March, 1982.
Ohio Quilts and Quilters 1800-1981. Frick Art Gallery.
The College of Wooster. Wooster, Ohio. April 5--May 5, 1981.
Women and Work: America's Working Women 1800-1979. Traveling
Exhibit. Ohio Historical Society. Columbus, Ohio. 1979.
Labor at Adena - Rural Labor in Frontier Ohio. Adena, Home
of Thomas Worthington. Ohio Historical Society. Chillicothe, Ohio.
1979.
Labor on Ohio's Canals. Piqua Historical Area. Ohio Historical
Society. Piqua, Ohio. 1979.
Riverboat Labor in the Ohio Valley. Ohio River Museum.
Ohio Historical Society. Marietta, Ohio. 1979.
Archives
Consultant. American Public Works Association. 1991-1992. Archives
Program Development.
Consultant. REACH Program. Cincinnati Department of Health. 1989.
Development of records management/archival organization plan.
UALR Archives and Special Collections. Acting Director. University
of Arkansas at Little Rock. 1983-1984. Duties included overall management
of the Archives, systematization of user policies, acquisition of
new collections, arrangement and description of selected collections,
preparation of annual reports, opening of the Winthrop Rockefeller
Collection, and a variety of archives-related public service activities.
Archival Theory and Practice Seminar. Special Collections Department
and Department of History. University of Cincinnati. 1977.
Public History Projects
Consultant, Erie Neighborhood House History Project, 2003-2005.
Project Director. North Park Village Nature Center Exhibition Project.
1999-2002.
Consultant. Loyola Visual History Project. Loyola University Chicago.
1994-1998.
Co-Director. Kingsley History Project. Kingsley Elementary School.
Evanston, Illinois. 1995-1996.
Principal Investigator. "Guidebook to DoD-related World War II
Sites and Museums." Legacy Resource Management Program, Department
of Defense. 1992-1995.
Member. Advisory Board. "Neighborhoods: Keepers of Culture." The
Chicago Historical Society. 1993-1998.
Member. Education Subcommittee, History/Lecture Committee. Archdiocese
of Chicago Sesquicentennial Celebration. Product: "Growth of Parishes
in a Geographic Area: St. Martin's Parish 1886-1989, Englewood,
Chicago." 1993-1994.
Project Director. East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project.
1992-1993.
Member. Working Group on Archival Materials and Historic Objects.
Legacy Resource Management Program, Department of Defense. Washington,
D.C. 1991.
Editor and principal author. Arkansas Preservation. Historic
Preservation Alliance of Arkansas. 1988-1989.
Consultant. "Making Equal Opportunity a Reality: A History of
the Urban League of Little Rock." Exhibit, Slide-Tape Presentation,
and Brochure. The Urban League of Little Rock. 1987-1989.
Office Phone:
(773) 508-2238
E-mail address: pmooney@luc.edu
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