Rosemary Wakeman
Professor Emerita of History
Email: rwakeman@fordham.edu
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PhD in History, University of California, Davis, 1985
Graduate Study, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociale, Paris, 1978-1979
MA, History, University of California, Davis, 1973
BA, University of California, Davis, 1971
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Rosemary Wakeman is Professor of History at Fordham University. Her most recent publication
is The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918-1941 (University of Chicago
Press, 2024). She is also the author of A Modern History of European Cities: 1815 to the
Present (Bloomsbury, Jan. 2020) and Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town
Movement (University of Chicago Press, 2016) as well as The Heroic City: Paris 1945-
1958 (University of Chicago Press, 2009). She was a Fulbright Global Scholar in 2018-19 and a
Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University in 2018.
Wakeman is co-editor of the Urban History journal published by Cambridge Press. She is on the
Editorial Board of Planning Perspectives journal. She is a member of the International
Committee for the European Urban History Association as well as for the Global Urban History
Project. She is currently working on a book project on global urban history 1945 to the present.Learn more about Dr. Wakeman's interests from the blog post Postcard from Domfront.
Rosemary Wakeman recently published Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and A Modern History of European Cities: 1815 to the Present (Bloomsbury, Jan. 2020).
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Undergraduate Courses:
- HSRU 4515 – SEMINAR: Modern European City
- HSLU 3624 – European Cities
- HSLU 3625 – The Second World War
- HSLU 3626 – Social History of Architecture
- HSLU 3628 - The City and History
Graduate Courses:
- HSGA 5003 – Adv Readings: Late Modern Europe
- HSGA 5555 – Modern European City