PhD: received, December 2005, Department of Art History, University of Chicago. Dissertation
entitled, “Sites of Lost Dwelling: The Figure of the Archaic City in the Discourses of Urban
Design, 1938-1970." Dissertation committee: Katherine Taylor, W.J.T. Mitchell, Dana Cuff.
M.Arch. received from the University of California, Los Angeles, concentration in History,
Analysis and Criticism of Architecture; master’s thesis on the architecture of Grand Central
Terminal.
B.A. received from Brown University, double concentration in Anthropology and Semiotics,
senior thesis on the structures of Inuit mythology.
Preliminary Ph.D. Examinations: 1) Critical Theory of Space; 2) Architecture and Social Space
in 19th Century Chicago; 3) 19th Century Theories of Architecture
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, 2007-08
Dissertation Award, Department of Art History, University of Chicago, May 2006
Franke Institute for the Humanities Dissertation Year Fellowship: July 2004-June 2005.
Council on Library and Information Resources Dissertation Research Fellowship: June-
December 2003.
Getty Library Research Grant: February 2003.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Art History, University of Pennsylvania, 2007 - 08;
responsible for freshman seminar: “Athens / Babylon: Images and Metaphors of the American City.”
Dean’s Appointment: Department of Art History Temple University, 2005 - 07;
full-time teaching appointment, with undergraduate and graduate course responsibilities.Courses
have included graduate seminars: “The Twentieth Century Metropolis” (Spring 2006),
“Philadelphia Architecture and Urbanism” (Spring 2006)
and “Empathy, Experience and the Body
in Art Historical Discourse”(Fall 2006); and undergraduate lecture courses:
“American Architecture”
(Fall 2005) and “Art Heritage of the Western World” (2005-6); “Modern Architecture,
1750-present” (Fall 2006).
Preceptor for the Master of Arts in the Humanities Program, University of Chicago; Fall
1999- May 2002; Assisted instruction of core course, “Foundations of Interpretive Theory,”
taught graduate “Writing Workshop,” advised master’s theses in a variety of disciplines,
including Art History, English, Philosophy and Music.
Adjunct Assistant Professor in Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago; Fall 2001; Co-
taught “Introduction to Theory of Architecture” for freshman majors; organized syllabus,
conducted lectures, supervised teaching assistants.
Adjunct Professor in Art History at De Paul University, 1998-2001; Responsible for
teaching: “Survey of Modern Architecture” (Fall 1998 and 99); “Survey of Ancient
Architecture” (Winter, 1999); “Introduction to Art and Art History,” (Winter 2001), “Chicago
Architecture and Urbanism” (Spring 2001).
Lecturer in Art History at the University of Chicago, Fall, 1998- Fall 1999; Responsible for
teaching Art History 101 (“Aesthetic Perceptions/Urban Formations”) in the college and a
course entitled “Chicago Architecture from the Great Fire to the Great Depression” at the
Graham School of General Studies:
Teaching Assistant for W.J.T. Mitchell in “Visual Culture,” departments of English and Art
History, University of Chicago, Winter 1998; delivered lecture: “Visuality and Space: Viewing
the Metropolis.”
Teaching Assistant for Gloria Pinney in undergraduate course on the Parthenon, University of
Chicago, Winter 1997; delivered lecture: “Donald Preziosi and the Architectural
Hermeneutics of the Acropolis.”
Special Reader for Sylvia Lavin in two graduate classes in the Theory of Architecture,
University of California, Los Angeles: conducted weekly discussion sessions in which
materials discussed in the lecture were reviewed and clarified; graded papers and wrote detailed
comments concerning content, organization, style, and grammar: Autumn 1994 and Winter 1995.
Editorial Introduction: “Embodying Urban Design,” in Embodied Utopias, Bingaman, Sanders
and Zorach eds., Routledge, New York, 2002
Book review: “Architecture and Modernity. Hilde Heynen.” in Modernism/Modernity, v. 7 no. 3,
September 2000, 522-24
“Mirrors within the Wall: Enlightenment Authority and the Dialectics of Visual Desire in
Ledoux’s Project for the Saline de Chaux,” Chicago Art Journal, 8:1, Spring 1998
“Swarm of the Metropolis: Passenger Circulation at Grand Central Terminal and the Ideology of
the Crowd Aesthetic,” Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), 50:1 September, 1996
“Decloaking the Camera Obscura: Toward a Free-Space Cinema,” Critical Planning, Spring
1995
Book Manuscript: Modernism and the Archaic City: The Pre-Industrial Past in the Imagination of 20th Century Urban Design
This project is an expansion and revision of the dissertation, which argues that idealizations
of preindustrial urban form were central to the genesis and definition of the modernist city.
“Taming the Postwar Boom: Aesthetics, Planning and the Reinvention of American ‘Civic Art,’
1945-55” [journal article]
“Prosthetic Imagination: The Discourse of Experience in the Work of Steen Eiler Rasmussen,
1950-59” [journal article]
Conference paper: “Inventing the Modern Agora: Urban Design, Social Transparency and
Representation of ‘Public Space’ in the Post-World War II City,” College Art Association
Conference, Boston, February 2006.
Conference paper: “Dreaming the Renaissance City in the Era of Urban Renewal: Kevin Lynch’s
Florence and the Invention of Imageability,” Urban History Association Conference, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin: October 2004.
Colloquium paper: “Inventing Architectural Subjects: Functionalism, Imageabilty and the
Rhetoric of Experience in American Urbanism of the 1960’s,” Buell Dissertation Colloquium,
Columbia University, New York: May 2001.
Conference paper: “Physiognomy of a German Capital: Domenico Quaglio’s Münchner
Ansichten and the Aesthetic Resistance to Neo-Classical Urbanism,” Mid-West Germanic
Studies Conference: May 1996.
Colloquium paper: “Architectural Dream Time: Excavations in the Writings of Emil Kaufmann,”
Graduate Student Colloquium, Department of Art History, University of Chicago: April 1996.
2002-2004, Historical Consultant for the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois:
Researched and wrote “National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for the Farnsworth
House,” 2003.
Assisted in organizing Embodied Utopias conference a the University of Chicago: 1998-99.
Editor on the staff of the Chicago Art Journal: 1996-97