Illinois State professor to talk about urban regionalism

Alan Lessoff, professor of history, Illinois State University, will present “Where Texas Meets the Sea: Corpus Christi, A Case Study in Southern and Southwestern Urban Regionalism” at 3:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 15, in Fretwell Building, Room 114.

Lessoff was named the spring 2016 Obama Fellow at the Transnational Institute for American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.

An internationally recognized scholar of U.S. and comparative urban history, Lessoff is the author of “Where Texas Meets the Sea: Corpus Christi and Its History” and “The Nation and Its City: Politics, Corruption and Progress in Washington, D.C., 1861-1902.”

He has written more than 50 journal articles, book chapters, essays, encyclopedia articles and book reviews. He also co-edited “Fractured Modernity: America Confronts Modern Times, 1890s to 1940s” and “Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America.” Lessoff co-wrote the “Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era” and “Legacy: A History of the Art Museum of South Texas.”

He has received two Fulbright appointments and served as a visiting professor at the University of Bielefeld and the University of Kassel in Germany and at Bilkent University in Turkey.

Lessoff earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University.