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"Urban Web: Cities as Hypertexts"
Janice L. Reiff, University of California, Los Angeles

2006 Pauley Symposium: History in the Digital Age
Friday, September 22, 2006, 1:30pm

About the Presenter

Jan Reiff is Associate Professor of History and Statistics at U.C.L.A. She has published Structuring the Past: The Use of Computers in History (1992) and co-edited The Settling of North America: The Atlas of the Great Migrations into North America from the Ice Age to the Present (1995). She has also co-edited the prize-winning Encyclopedia of Chicago (2004) and its 2005 online edition. Professor Reiff is currently working on a book titled Industrial Towns, Suburban Dreams, Urban Realities: Pullman's Communities, 1880-1981.

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