The Center for Middletown Studies sponsors the Comparative Urban Studies series with Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.  An outgrowth of the Center's work on small cities in both the U.S. and abroad, lead editor Kenneth Hall (Ball State University) and Associate Editors James Connolly (Center for Middletown Studies, Ball State University) and Steven Morillo (Wabash College).  The series encourages innovative studies of urbanism, contemporary and historical, from a multidisciplinary (e.g., architecture, art, anthropology, culture, economics, history, literature, sociology, technological), comparative, and/or global perspective.  For more information go to Comparative Urban Studies or contact one of the editors or the Center for Middletown Studies.