About . . . John McCarthy

John McCarthy is Assistant Professor of History at Robert Morris University. His areas of interest are 20th Century urban policy, planning history, suburbanization, and race and neighborhood change. John is active in community development in his hometown, the city of Pittsburgh. He received his Ph.D. from Marquette University in 2005. He is the author of Making Milwaukee Mightier: Planning and the Politics of Growth, 1910-1960, (Northern Illinois University Press, 2009).  John has also served as section editor of Milwaukee Stories: Selections from the Journals of the Milwaukee County Historical Society (Marquette University Press, 2005), and published journal articles on planning history, urban youth culture, and major league baseball.