ROBERT G. BARROWS

Chair, Department of History. Associate Professor of History. B.A. Muskingum College 1968, M.A. Indiana University 1972, Ph.D. 1977.

Teaching and research interests: American urban history, late nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S. history, Indiana/Indianapolis history. Current research focuses on public housing in Indiana during the Great Depression.

Publications: articles in Journal of Urban History, Indiana Magazine of History, Social Science History; "Indianapolis: Silver Buckle on the Rust Belt," in Snowbelt Cities, ed. Richard Bernard (Indiana University Press, 1990); The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, coedited with David Bodenhamer (Indiana University Press, 1994); "Urbanizing America," in The Gilded Age, ed. Charles W. Calhoun (Scholarly Resources, 1996); Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper (Indiana University Press, 2000).

Service: Director of Graduate Studies

Office: CA-503R
Phone: (317) 274-2457
rbarrows@iupui.edu