Nathalie Barton

Postdoctoral Fellow

Nathalie Barton is a historian of the United States in the twentieth century, with a focus on cities, racial inequality, and housing. Her research investigates how changing ideas of race and ownership have shaped experiences of home, real estate, and the urban built environment. Her current book project centers on the landlord-tenant relationship in the second half of the twentieth century and explores how the shifting social, legal, and financial dynamics of the rental relationship further entrenched urban inequality along racial lines. She has presented her research at the conferences of the Urban History Association and the Society of Intellectual Historians as well as at the Newberry Library. Nathalie received her PhD and MA in History from the University of Chicago as well as a BA in American Studies from Columbia University.