Dr. Barbara Thornton

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Professor of Urban History · History & Political Science

Dr. Thornton is a specialist in American urban history, with emphasis on how industrialization, migration, and federal housing policy shaped the 20th-century metropolis. Her archival work has documented the rise and fall of downtown department stores as civic anchors.

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Contact & office

✉ bthornton@urbanicity.space

🏢 Merrick Hall 410

Office hours: Mon 10:00 AM-12:00 PM · Gilman Hall 415 | Wed 2:00 PM-4:00 PM · Gilman Hall 415

College

Ph.D. History — Columbia University (2009)

M.A. Historic Preservation — University of Pennsylvania (2005)

B.A. American Studies — Amherst College (2003)

Family

Steelworker's daughter; wrote her dissertation two blocks from the old mill gate.

🐾 An elderly tabby named Olmsted