Colin Gordon, professor and chair of History at the University of Iowa will give a free talk titled, “The Cartography of Decline: Mapping the Fate of the American City,” on Thursday, March 12, at 6:00 p.m. at 80 Fifth Avenue, fifth-floor conference room.

Colin Gordon is the author of New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics, 1920–1935 (1994), Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health in Twentieth Century America (2003), and Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (2008). He is also a senior research consultant to the Iowa Policy Project, where he writes on state labor, health, and economic development policies. Colin Gordon received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990.

This event is part of the Control and Space in Governmentality Speakers Series. It is sponsored by the Committee on Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research, the Eugene Lang College History Department, the Market Cultures Working Group, the Office of Civic Engagement, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.