Michael Carriere, Ph.D.
Professor, Director, Honors Program | Milwaukee School of Engineering
Milwaukee, WI, UNITED STATES
Dr. Michael Carriere is an urban historian, with expertise in American history, urban studies and sustainability.
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Education, Licensure and Certification (3)
University Of Chicago: Ph.D., American Urban History 2010
University Of Chicago: M.A., American History 2002
Hampshire College: B.A., American History 1998
Biography
Dr. Michael Carriere is a professor in MSOE’s Humanities, Social Science and Communication Department. He also is director of the Honors Program. He is an urban historian and studies the growth and evolution of communities and the impact of social issues. He works closely with MSOE's honors students on ‘real-world’ projects that allow young engineers to develop their respective skill sets while practicing a pedagogy based on collaboration, interdisciplinary and inter-institutional partnerships. Carriere spent two years as a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington D.C. think tank, before entering graduate school at the University of Chicago and earning a Ph.D. in American history.
Areas of Expertise (8)
Sustainability
American History
General Social Science
Honors Program
History
General Humanities
Student Affairs
Urban Studies
Accomplishments (1)
Karl O. Werwath Engineering Research Award, MSOE
2019
Affiliations (1)
- Carter Academy Fellow: Member
Event and Speaking Appearances (4)
From Erasure to Inheritance: Rethinking the Cultural Landscapes of Black Milwaukee
10th Biennial Urban History Association Conference Pittsburgh, PA
2023-10-27
Parks, Landscapes, and Planning in the Late Twentieth Century (Panel Chair and Commenter"
19th National Conference on Planning History, Society American City, & Regional Planning History The City College of New York
2022-10-22
London Farming: How Urban Farming Challenged the Neoliberal City by Reconceptualizing Production (with Schalliol, D.)
International Conference on London Studies: "Visions and Revisions of the Metropolis" Online Event
2020-11-20
There Goes the Neighborhood: Modern Urban Planning at the Illinois Institute of Technology (with Spaetz, D.)
South Side Modern: IIT and the Building of Chicago Conference Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
2019-08-26
Selected Publications (6)
There Goes the Neighborhood: The Prehistory of Modern Urban Planning and Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, publication forthcomingCarriere, M. and Spatz, D.
Michaelangelo Sabatino, ed., Building Breaking Rebuilding: The Illinois Institute of Technology, its Campus and Chicago's South Side
Toppling the 'Cinderblock in the Sky': 'Negative' Architecture Education at Columbia University in the 1960s
New York: Routledge, 2023Carriere, M.
In Peter Laurence, ed, Histories of Architecture Education in the United States.
There Goes the City: A Long History of Urban Agriculture in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Journal of Urban History, 2022Carriere, M. and Schalliol, D.
Published OnLine First, June 25 2022.
The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America
The University of Chicago PressCarriere, M. and Schalliol, D.
2021
Touch and Go Records and the Rise of Hardcore Punk in Late Twentieth-Century Detroit
Cultural HistoryCarriere, M.
April 2015: 19-41
Fighting the War Against Blight: Columbia University, Morningside Heights, Inc., and Counterinsurgent Urban Renewal
Journal of Planning HistoryCarriere, M.
February 2011: 5-29. This article won the Journal of Planning History prize for 2011, given tot he best article published in the Journal of Planning History over the past two years.
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