Rethinking the American City: An International Dialogue

Contributors

219 ContrIbutors KlAuS BeneSch is Professor of English and American Studies at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich and Director of the Bavarian American Academy. He is the author of Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance (2002) and coeditor of Space in America: Theory History Culture (2005); The Power and Politics of the Aesthetic in American Culture (2007); and Scientific Cultures, Technological Challenges: A Transatlantic Perspective (2009). MArgAret crAwforD is Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches courses in the history and theory of urbanism. She is the author of Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns and is coeditor of The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment, and Daily Urban Life and of Everyday Urbanism. She appears in this book in the Dialogues only. DoloreS hAyDen, Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and American Studies at Yale University, is the author of several books on the history of American urban landscapes, including Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism (1976); The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (1995); Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth (2003); and A Field Guide to Sprawl (2004). A former Guggenheim and CASBS (Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences) fellow, she served as president of the Urban History Association in 2010. DAviD M. luBin, the Charlotte Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University, has written several books, including Act of Portrayal: Eakins, Sargent, James; Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in NineteenthCentury America; Titanic; and Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture CONTRIBUTORS 220 of Images, which won the 2004 Eldredge Prize from the Smithsonian American Art Museum for “distinguished scholarship in American art.” His current research examines American visual culture during the First World War. MAlcolM Mccullough is the author of Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information (2013); Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing (2004); and Abstracting Craft (1996). He is Professor of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, and he previously served on the design faculty at Carnegie Mellon and at Harvard. He has lectured in many countries on the urbanism of locative media. Jeffrey l. MeiKle is the Stiles Professor of American Studies and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications include Design in the USA (2005) and American Plastic: A Cultural History (1995), and he is coeditor of Public Space and the Ideology of Place in American Culture (2009). At present, he is finishing a book on the American scene as represented in postcards of the 1930s and 1940s. DAviD e. nye is Professor of American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark; a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge; and a visiting professor at Warwick, Leeds, Harvard, MIT, Oviedo, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and Notre Dame. He received the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 2005 for contributions to the study of technology and culture and the Dexter Book Prize (1993), Sally Hacker Prize (2009), and Able Woolman Award (1991). His eight books with MIT Press include When the Lights Went Out (2010) and America’s Assembly Line (2013). MileS orvell is Professor of English and American Studies at Temple University. His books include The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880–1940 (1989; Franklin Prize, American Studies Association); After the Machine: Visual Arts and the Erasing of Cultural Boundaries (1995); American Photography (2003); and The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, CONTRIBUTORS 221 Space, and Community (2012). He is also coeditor of Public Space and the Ideology of Place in American Culture (2009) and served as editor of the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online (2003–11). He received the Bode Pearson Award from the American Studies Association in 2009. AnDrew roSS is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. A contributor to the Nation, the Village Voice, the New York Times, and Artforum, he is the author of many books, including Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City; Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times; Fast Boat to China: Lessons from Shanghai; Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor; No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs; and The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of...