Kurt Schlichting is the E. Gerald Corrigan ’63 Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences and a Professor of Sociology at Fairfield, where he has served as the Dean and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. His most recent book, Waterfront Manhattan: From Henry Hudson to the High Line (Johns Hopkins University Press), was published in 2018.  His previous book, Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Architecture and Engineering in New York, (also Johns Hopkins University Press), won the Association of American Publishers, 2002 Best Professional/ Scholarly Book (Architecture and Urbanism) and was the basis for the 2008 PBS – The American Experience: “Grand Central,” an award-winning documentary. Schlichting’s research uses GIS to analyze historical immigration data and the rise of the American city with a focus on New York.  He recently contributed a chapter: “Kleindeutschland,” the Lower East Side in New York City at Tompkins Square in the 1880s: Exploring Immigration Patterns at the Street and Building Level,” for the Routledge Handbook of Spatial History, edited by Ian Gregory et. al. (2017).