Department of History
 

LaDale Winling, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2010)
415 Major Williams Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-1805

lwinling@vt.edu

Areas of Specialization: Urban History, Public History, Digital History, 20th Century U.S. History
Current Research:University growth and urban development in U.S. cities
Recent Publications:
• “Students and the Second Ghetto: Federal Legislation, Urban Politics and Campus Planning at the University of Chicago.” Journal of Planning History (February 2011) 10: 59-86.

•“The Gravity of Capital: Spatial and Economic Transformation in Muncie, Indiana, 1917-1940.” in After the Factory: Reinventing America’s Industrial Small Cities, James Connolly ed., Lexington Books, 2010.

• “Economic Development and the Landscape of Knowledge,” Journal of Urban History 36 (July 2010): 528-536.

• Review Essay, Journal of Society of Architectural Historians 67 (Dec. 2008): 619-621.

• “Railroads and Metropolitan Form,” Journal of Planning History 7 (Aug. 2008): 252-260.

•Encyclopedia of Urban History (2007)

• Entries on “Frank Lloyd Wright” and “College Towns”

• Prints and Photographs collection, Library of Congress (2005, 2006)

• Research report on architecture and planning of Greenbelt, Maryland (HABS MD-1216HABS MD-1217)