Save Pilot Knob in Mendota, MN. |
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Jeremy W. Hubbell just received his PhD in history from SUNY SB, dissertation: Minneapois: Urban-Environmental Change in the Upper Mississippi, 1824-1924." The dissertation examined the urban environment as the way humans co-evolve with their built environments using the Twin Cities in Minnesota as a case study. (An incomplete composite can be found here: curriculum vitae). [I haven't updated this in over two years...Pilot Knob (the front 20 acres) will be preserved by the city of Mendota Heights as green space. Attention has turned once more to Coldwater Spring. The draft EIS on the BOM campus is now available - comments due late November.] |
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'post-industrial perspective' from an ironworks site in Troy, NY, where Civil War era ironclads were made - photo by author 1999. |
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Current Occupation: Teaching: Fall 2006 CUNY City College, US Survey Research Statement: My research interests involve an examination of the world wrought by liberalism in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century EuroAmerica. I do this by narrating case histories of the urban environment - a paradigmatic approach to the history of a city, the history of city-hinterland relationships, the history of place making and cultural formation within space. At the moment, I am writing my dissertation on Minneapolis using this perspective. I begin with the extension of the Metropolis in the US to take advantage of the Louisiana Purchase for its cultural prerogatives first, material needs second (but synchronously). At the same time, I propose the idea of the Indian Metropolis - not as a narrative of Paradise Lost but as an alternative uses of space undermined by the arrival of those who built the liberal urban environment we know as Minneapolis. Key to this project has been the history of the tourist trade (Part I), the rise of Flour Milling in the Midwest (Part II), the creation of a parked city (Part III), and the rise of the homogenous brick of butter (Part IV). Infrastructure projects alter the urban environment and they reflect the integrity of local cultures. My second project narrates the history of TH 55 as it runs through the Hiawatha Corridor connecting the MSP airport via Fort Snelling, Minnehaha Park, 2 Interstates, and downtown Minneapolis. This last interest, in addition to my interest in commodities, will enable a contribution to scholarly discussions on globalization as well as allow me to go beyond EuroAmerica. Research Projects:Hwy 55: I am interested in contacting all persons involved in the 50 year history of Highway 55. If you, your parents, your relatives, or your neighbors, have old letters or files on the road - do not throw them away! Write to me please!
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Contact: History Department Site Begun January 2000 email: Jeremy.Hubbell@sunysb.edu
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