Dominic Pacyga
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Dominic A. Pacyga received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1981. He has authored, or co-authored, four books concerning Chicago 's history, including Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago (1991), Chicago: City of Neighborhoods with Ellen Skerrett (1986), Chicago: A Historical Guide to the Neighborhoods (1979) with Glen Holt, Chicago's Southeast Side (1998) with Rod Sellers. He has lectured widely on topics ranging from urban development to labor history, immigration, and racial and ethnic relations, and has appeared in both the local and national media. Pacyga has been a member of the Liberal Education Department at Columbia College/Chicago since 1984. He has worked with various museums including the Chicago Historical Society, the Museum of Science and Industry, and the Field Museum in Chicago on a variety of public history projects. Pacyga has also worked with numerous neighborhood organizations, student groups, and ethnic, labor, and fraternal groups to preserve and exhibit their histories and was guest curator of a major exhibit, "The Chicago Bungalow" at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. He and Charles Shanabruch are co-editors of The Chicago Bungalow (Arcadia Press 2001), a companion volume to the exhibit. Pacyga has won the Oscar Halecki Award from the Polish American Historical Association and the Catholic Book Award. In 1999 he received the Columbia College Award for Excellence in Teaching. Pacyga has been a visiting professor at both the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago . In the spring of 2005 he will be a Visiting Scholar in Campion Hall at Oxford University . Pacyga is currently working on a history of Chicago for the University of Chicago Press.