Kathleen Neils Conzen is professor of American history and chair of the department of history at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836-1860: Accommodation and Co...view moreKathleen Neils Conzen is professor of American history and chair of the department of history at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836-1860: Accommodation and Community in a Frontier City and Making Their Own America: Assimilation Theory and the German Peasant Pioneer.view less