A scholar of city politics and American political development, Bridges is the author of A City in the Republic, Antebellum New York and Origins of Machine Politics (Cambridge, 1984) and Morning Glories, Municipal Reform in the Southwest (Princeton, 1997). Bridges has contributed essays to Urban Affairs Quarterly, Studies in American Political Development, and edited volumes.  She has also served on the editorial boards of Urban Affairs Quarterly and the Journal of Policy History. Bridges is currently writing, with Katherine Underwood, a study of contemporary city politics in the southwest, Life After Districts. Bridges is also conducting research for a historical study, Adding the West to the Progressive Era.  This work recently earned her fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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E-mail: abridges@ucsd.edu