City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center; New York, NY
PhD, Art History and Certificate in Film Studies: 2008
Areas of Specialization: 20th-century Architecture and Urbanism, Film Studies
Dissertation: "The Berlin Wall and the Urban Space and Experience of East and West Berlin, 1961-1989" (advisor: Dr. Kevin Murphy)

MPhil, Art History: 2004

DePaul University; Chicago, IL
BA, Art History (with honor): 1998

Visiting Assistant Professor: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
History of Art and Design Department
course: "Art since the 1960s" (lecture and discussion)

2009, fall
2008, fall

Visiting Assistant Professor: Bard College; Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Program in Art History
courses: "Survey of 20th-Century Art" (lecture), "Introduction to Modern Architecture" (lecture), "20th-Century Northern European Art and Architecture" (lecture), and "Berlin in the 20th and 21st Century: Architecture and National Identity" (seminar)

Adjunct Assistant Professor: City College (CUNY); New York, NY
School of Architecture
course: "Berlin in the 20th and 21st Century: Architecture and National Identity" (seminar, included graduate students)

2009 Society of Architectural Historians Conference; Pasadena, CA
Paper: "Plattenbauten: Space as Instrument of Control and Resistance in East Germany"
(Panel: Space and the Production of State)

2008 Second German Studies Workshop, UT Austin
Paper: "Beyond the Berlin Myth: The Local, the Global and IBA 87"
(Panel: Case Studies in German Division)

Symposium: Frick Symposium on the History of Art (chosen CUNY GC representative);
New York, NY: April 7-8, 2006
Paper: "Hugh Stubbins' Berlin Congress Hall and the Architecture of Democracy"

2006 Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference; Vancouver, BC
Paper: "Film, Space, and Urban Identity: The Berlin State Library in Wings of Desire"
(Panel: Media and Space)

2005 Society of Architectural Historians Conference; Vancouver, BC
Paper: "Film Space/Built Space: Architecture and Post-War French Film,"
with Elizabeth Watson
(Panel: The Architectural "Big Picture": Conceptual Uses of Building in Painting, Sculpture, and Other Media)

Architecture and the Cold War: The Berlin Wall and the Construction of East and West Berlin (under review by the University of Pittsburgh Press for the series "Politics, Social Justice and the Built Environment," edited by Dianne Harris.)

"The Global, the Local and IBA 87" in Berlin, Divided City, Philip Broadbent and Sabine Hake, eds. (Berghahn Books: Forthcoming, 2010).