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Though better known for automobile assembly, Ford's Highland Park Plant was also a center of Progressive Era housing reform. There, in the 1910s, company agents worked to establish a new "American" standard of living among employees, helping to shape Detroit's modern culture and the form of the rapidly growing city itself. Michael McCulloch is an architect and historian whose research engages housing, labor, industrialization, and landscape. He is the Associate Professor and Chair of the Master of Architecture Program at Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University. Michael holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Michigan and a M.S. in Urban Design from Columbia University. He is the author of Building a Social Contract: Modern Workers' Houses in Early Twentieth-Century Detroit (Temple University Press, 2023), and has fond memories of working for Albert Kahn Associates in 2005-2006 as a young architectural intern.