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Jeff
Wiltse, Ph.D.
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Jeff Wiltse teaches courses in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century United States history as well as in social and urban history. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 2002. His dissertation, “Contested Waters: A History of Swimming Pools in America,” is a social, cultural, and institutional history of municipal swimming pools in the northern United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It received the 2003 Allan Nevins Prize of the Society of Americans Historians for the “best-written dissertation on a major topic in American history.” His research interests focus on the contested uses of public space in modern America.
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Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
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