Associate Professor Paige Glotzer researches the history of housing segregation in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Her first book, entitled How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960, was published by Columbia University Press as part of its Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism series. It received the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book in North American History and the Lewis Mumford Award for Best Book in American City and Regional Planning History, and was a finalist for the Hagley Prize in Business History. It charts how suburban developers ushered in modern American housing segregation with the help of financiers, real estate institutions, and policymakers. As a companion to the book, her digital project maps the British investors who financed one of the first segregated suburbs in the United States.
Her current book project, Transnational Peripheries: Remaking Suburbs in the US and Latin America, focuses on the interactions between American realtors and Latin American consumers in the mid-twentieth century to the present.
Her work has been featured in both peer reviewed journals and popular outlets, including the Journal of Urban History, CityLab, PBS, and Time magazine. She joined the University of Florida after holding the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Chair in the History of American Politics, Institutions, and Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and, prior to that, completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard University Joint Center for History and Economics. She received her PhD in History from Johns Hopkins University.
She is broadly interested in urban history, the history of capitalism, transnational history, and digital history.