AB 1991 Princeton University PhD 1999 Northwestern University 1999-present, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Author: Is Graduate School Really for You: The Whos, Whats, Hows, and Whys of Pursuing a Master’s or PhD (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012); hardcover, paperback, and Kindle editions. Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago’s West Side (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005); hardcover and paperback. current projects: Co-editor, with Margo Anderson, The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee (digital edition to be online at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; print edition under contract with Northern Illinois University Press) A History of Block Clubs in Chicago (book-length project)