Rosemary Wakeman
Professor of History
Email: rwakeman@fordham.edu, gradhistory@fordham.edu
Office: Dealy Hall 208B and Lincoln Center 414B
Phone: 718-817-3895 and 212-636-7359
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
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).
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