John Grabowski

John Grabowski is Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History at Case Western Reserve University and Senior VP for Research at Western Reserve Historical Society. He specializes in Cleveland urban development, immigration history, and digital archive curation.

Key initiatives:

• Editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
• NEH-funded preservation of industrial heritage collections
• Oral history documentation of immigrant communities

Research examines ethnic neighborhood formation and deindustrialization impacts in Great Lakes cities.