Educational Credentials :

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2000
• M.Arch, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1981
• A.B., Honors in Art, Brown University, 1975

Teaching Experience :

• Professor, City College of New York, CUNY, 2004-present
• Professor, Art History Program, Graduate Center, CUNY, 2014-present
• Adjunct Professor, California College of the Arts,1999-2000.
• Associate Chairman, Parsons School of Design/New School for Social Research, Department of Architecture and Environmental Design, 1988-92; Acting Chair, Spring 1991
• Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Lecturer, 1990, 1991
• Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, 1985-88; Adjunct Assistant Professor, 1983-85; Paris Summer Program, 1985, 1987

Professional Experience :

• Architect, Marta Gutman/A. Eugene Sparling, A.I.A., New York, NY, 1985-92
• Project Architect, Moger-Woodson Architects, New York, NY, 1984-85
• Project Architect, Conrad Levenson, Architects and Planners, New York, NY, 1982-84
• Designer, Levenson/Thaler Associates, New York, NY, 1978-81

Licenses/Registration :

• Architecture License, New York State

Selected Publications and Recent Research :

• A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
• “Teaching Marshall/Marshall Teaching: Encounters with Berman,” in Adventures in Modernism: Thinking with Marshall Berman, edited by Jennifer Corby (New York: UR /Terreform, 2015): 52-61.
• Response to Justin Binder’s ongoing Vacated project for Design and Violence, edited by Paola Antonelli and Jamer Hunt (MomA, 2013 +), http://designandviolence.moma.org/vacated-justin-blinder/.
• “The Physical Spaces of Childhood,” chapter 13 in The Routledge History of Childhood in the West, ed. Paula S. Fass, 249-66. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Professional Memberships :

• The Vernacular Architecture Forum
• Society for American City and Regional Planning History
• Urban History Association
• Society of Architectural Historians