About . . . Robin F. Bachin

Robin F. Bachin is the Charlton W. Tebeau Associate Professor of History and Director of the American Studies Program at the University of Miami. Her first book, Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004 and won the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Illinois History and Heritage. Bachin’s current book projects include Home Away from Home: The Transformation of Seaside Recreation on the East Coast, 1865-2000, and Tropical Urbanism: Modernity, Exoticism, and the Creation of South Florida. Bachin has received fellowships from the Graham Foundation for the Advancement of the Fine Arts, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Driehaus Foundation. She was awarded a University of Miami Library Fellowship to create a digital archive on “Travel, Tourism, and Urban Growth in Greater Miami” (http://scholar.library.miami.edu/miamidigital). Bachin also served as guest curator of an exhibition at the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach entitled "In Pursuit of Pleasure: Schultze and Weaver and the American Hotel," which ran from November 2005 through May 2006. Princeton Architectural Press published the exhibition catalogue, Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age. In addition, she was a senior consulting editor on The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (Indiana University Press, 2007).