Margo Anderson

Margo Anderson serves as Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, specializing in American social history with institutional affiliation limited to the Department of History within the university's broader structure.

Her research centers on the socio-political dimensions of census methodology and Progressive Era social reform movements, particularly examining industrialization's urban consequences. Key contributions include authoring The American Census: A Social History and co-editing Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century, which analyzes interdisciplinary approaches to documenting Pittsburgh's industrial transformation between 1909-1914 through statistical, legal, and medical frameworks.