Georgina Hickey
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Georgina Hickey

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Georgina Hickey is a professor of History at the University of Michigan Dearborn, specializing in U.S. Urban and Women’s History. She is the author of Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940, and Breaking the Gender Code: Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth Century United States (Texas, 2023) as well as articles on women’s access to public space and urban-based activism. Her current research explores the intersection of grassroots movements for social change and electoral politics in post-1967 Detroit through the public life of long-time city council member, activist, and social worker, Maryann Mahaffey. Hickey teaches courses on urban, social, and cultural history; social movements; and race and gender. She is an affiliate faculty member of the Urban and Regional Studies and Women and Gender Studies programs. Off campus, she devotes time to community cooperatives and cycling. She is an advocate for inclusive communities, transportation systems, and public bathrooms.
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