Biography
Neumann is an Associate Professor of History at Wayne State University. She specializes in transnational and global approaches to twentieth-century North American history, with an emphasis on cities and the built environment. She is the author of
Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) and of essays on urban history and public policy. Neumann is currently writing a book about the political, cultural, and intellectual history of the global dissemination of urban design and international development models since 1945, with a focus on the role of philanthropic foundations, and universities, international organizations. This research traces how political and ideological shifts were constituted by the activities of urban “experts” from organizations such as the UN, UNESCO, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and American and Canadian universities who understood their work as forms of cultural expression. Her work challenges the idea that in transnational exchanges, particularly within the Americas, the direction of influence was always or primarily North to South. Neumann also serves as co-editor of the Global Urban History blog, sits on the editorial board of Urban History, and is member of the boards of the Urban History Association and the Global Urban History Project.
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