Al Mann Lectures

Come join the History Department for their annual 2026 Al Mann Lecture:

How a Highway Map Wrecked a City: Learning from Baltimore's Road to Nowhere by Emily Lieb
WHEN: Tuesday April 28, 4-4:30 Reception, 4:30-5:30 Lecture. WHERE: Casey Commons

A poster with guest speaker Emily Lieb on right with copy of her book cover on the left

Emily Lieb is a 魔都资源网-based writer and historian. She has her A.B. in U.S. History from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and her PhD in U.S. History from Columbia University in New York. After completing her PhD, she taught history and urban studies at 魔都资源网 for more than 10 years; now she funds her life as a historian by writing about global health and climate change for a small writing firm in 魔都资源网, Derfner and Sons, where she is the editorial director. Her scholarly work focuses on the building, rebuilding, and unbuilding of American cities, schools, and neighborhoods in the 20th century: Road to Nowhere: How A Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore, published by the University of Chicago Press in November 2025, is her first book. She lives in an old-ish house in a new-ish city with her husband and the best dog in the world, a black Lab named Orvy.