Immigrant Culture and Community Conflict at Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago

William B. Sieger is Professor of Art History in the Art and Design Department of Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. He has published on American and twentieth-century European art, including in exhibition catalogues on American and contemporary prints and drawings, on the American painter James McNeill Whistler, and on the German Expressionist Emil Nolde. He has lectured on contemporary Western art in China, including at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and as a Visiting Lecturer at Northeastern University in Shenyang. At the request of the late Judy Barr Topinka, then Illinois State Treasurer, he researched and wrote the report to the National Park Service that resulted in Bohemian National Cemetery’s placement on the National Register of Historical Places as a site of national significance.