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Nicholas Kryczka studies the history of American schools and cities. He teaches classes on these topics, as well as courses in oral history methods and American civilization in UChicago's History Department—where he earned his PhD in 2019.  Nick's book manuscript in-progress, Schooling Renewal: Choice and Community in Post-Civil Rights Chicago, traces a path from the school politics of voluntary integration and community empowerment in the 1960s to the dynamics of urban renaissance and choice-and-accountability reform at the close of the twentieth century. Before coming to the University of Chicago, Nick worked for ten years as a social studies teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. Nick earned his BA at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and an MA from Northeastern Illinois University.

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