Michael Carriere, Ph.D.

Professor, Director, Honors Program

  • Milwaukee WI UNITED STATES
  • Humanities, Social Science and Communication

Dr. Michael Carriere is an urban historian, with expertise in American history, urban studies and sustainability.

Contact

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Education, Licensure and Certification

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

Sustainability
American History
General Social Science
Honors Program
History
General Humanities
Student Affairs
Urban Studies

Accomplishments

Karl O. Werwath Engineering Research Award, MSOE

2019

Affiliations

  • Carter Academy Fellow: Member

Social

Event and Speaking Appearances

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

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Selected Publications

There Goes the Neighborhood: The Prehistory of Modern Urban Planning and Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, publication forthcoming

Carriere, 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, 2023

Carriere, 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, 2022

Carriere, M. and Schalliol, D.

Published OnLine First, June 25 2022.

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