Timothy Mennel

Timothy Mennel is senior acquisitions editor for American history and regional studies at the University of Chicago Press, where he is responsible for the Historical Studies of Urban America series and the Chicago Visions and Revisions series, among others. Previously, he was senior editor at the American Planning Association, where he edited the Planners Press imprint and the Planning Advisory Service series of reports. His publications include, with Max Page, Reconsidering Jane Jacobs, and, with Susan Piedmont-Palladino of the National Building Museum, Green Community. His essay on Victor Gruen's plan for a world's fair outside of Washington, D.C., in 1960 is forthcoming in Meet Me at the Fair, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. 

Tim has held editorial positions at Random House, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Artforum magazine, and Princeton University Press, and he has been a consultant to the Queens Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Municipal Art Society of New York, and the Art Insitute of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in English from Carleton College.

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