Current Position:



Professor

Address:

University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of History (M/C 198)
913 University Hall
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7109

Phone: (312) 996-3141 (department)
Office Phone: (312) 996-8757
Fax: (312) 996-6377
Office: 1022 University Hall
Email: prduis@uic.edu

Education:

• Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1975
• M.A. University of Chicago, 1966
• B.A. Northwestern University, 1965

• Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999--
• Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1984-1999
• Assistant Professor, 1975-84
• Instructor, 1971-1975

• Books:
  
  
  • Chicago: Creating New Traditions (Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1976)
  • The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983)
  • We've Got a Job To Do: Chicagoans and World War II (Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1992) with Scott LaFrance
  • Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998)
  
  
• Major Articles:
  
  
  • "Chicago" in John Hoffman, ed. A Guide to the History of Illinois (New York: Greenwood Press, 1991), 119-139
  • "The Shaping of Chicago," in Alice Sinkevich, ed. A.I.A. Guide to Chicago (New York: Harcourt and Brace & Co., 1993), 3-24
  • "Symbolic Unity and the Neighborhood: Chicago During World War II," Journal of Urban History 21 (Jan. 1995): 184-217
  • "No Time for Privacy: World War II and Chicago's Families," in Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan Hirsch, The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 17-45
  • "Chicago in History," AHA Perspectives (November 2002), 29-31, 41
  
  

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