Dr. Despina Stratigakos
General Information
Occupation: Professor
Archive/Repository: IAWA Online Inventory at: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/iawa/inventories/Stratigakos.html; http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/architecture/people/stratigakos.asp
Sources: Curriculum vitae
Specialties
Subject: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century European Art and Architectrue
Subject: Women Architects and Designers in Europe and the United States
Subject: Theories of Gender and Design
Subject: Women and the German Werkbund
Subject: Women Architects in Germany
Jobs
Employer: Illinois State University, School of Art
Title: Assitant Professor
City: Normal
State: Quebec
Country: Canada
Employer: Grinnell College, Department of Art
Title: Visiting Assistant Professor
City: Grinnell
State: Quebec
Country: Canada
Employer: University of Iowa, Honors Program
Title: Visiting Assistant Professor
City: Iowa City
State: Quebec
Country: Canada
Notes: Stratigakos taught in the spring semester
Employer: University of California, Berkeley, Department of History of Art
Title: Teaching Assistant
City: Berkeley
State: Quebec
Country: Canada
Notes: Spring 1989
Employer: Maisons de la culture
Title: Senior Curator and Coordinator of Exhibitions
City: Montreal
State: Quebec
Country: Canada
Start Date: January 01, 1991
End Date: August 01, 1992
Notes: Stratigakos served on the Visual Arts Committee evaluating submissions for exhibitions and performances at the Maisons de la culture; organized and curated a series of exhibitions on the history of the city's "ethnic" communities, including First Nations, African and Afro-Caribbean, Chinese, French, and Greek; curated concurrent art exhibitions highlighting the work of contemporarty artists from the represented communities; hired and supervised researchers; solicited loans of objects from private and public collections; approved press releases and appeared on radio and television promoting the shows.
Employer: University of Buffalo, SUNY
Title: Assistant professor
Collaborators
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Apprenticeships
No apprenticeships on record
Awards
Name: Outstanding Dissertation Award of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools
Description: Bryn Mawr nominated Stratigakos' doctoral dissertation for the award
Name: Culpepper Technology Award for Curricular Development
Description: From Grinnell College
Name: Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities
Description: Awarded through 1998
Name: Social Science Research Council
Description: Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Disseration and Research Fellowship, 1996-1997
Name: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Description: Disseration Research Fellowship, 1995-1996
Name: Doctoral Fellowship
Description: Received from Bryn Marw College, 1992-95
Name: Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fellowship
Description: Received from the University of California, Berkeley
Name: Teetzel Scholarship in Art History
Description: Awarded to the first-ranked senior from the University of Toronto
Exhibitions
No exhibitions on record
Notable Projects
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Education
Institution: Bryn Mawr College
Department: Art
Degree: Ph.D., History of Art
Notes: Dissertation is entitlted: "Skirts and Scaffolding: Women Architects, Gender and Design in Wilhelmine Germany". The disserations explores women's advancement into the architectural profession-from the first students to practicing professionals by the end of WWI.
Institution: University of California at Berkeley
Department: History of Art
Degree: Master of Art
Notes: Thesis was entitled "More than Roses: The meaning of Botanical Motifs in the Work of William Morris"
Institution: University of Toronto
Department: Cultural Anthropology and History of Art and Architecture
Degree: Bachelor of Art
Licensing
No licenses on record
Professional Affiliations
Organization: Illinois State University, University Galleries
Role: Advisory Board
Organization: Illinois State University, School of Art
Role: Scholarship and Recruitment Committee
Organization: Illinois State University, School of Art
Role: Search Committee, Computer Graphics/New Media
Organization: International Archive of Women Architects
Role: Board of Advisors
Organization: Women's Studies Colloquium, Bauhaus ans Werbund Archives
Role: Founding Member
Notes: Berlin
Publications By
Title: A Women's Berlin: How Female Patrons and Architects in Imperial Germany Re-Gendered the City
Co-author: ed. Amy L. Bingaham, Lise Shapiro Sanders, and Rebecca Zorach
Publication: Embodied Utopias: gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis
Publisher: Routledge
City: London and New York
Notes: Winner of the Milka Bliznakov Prize 2009
Title: Architects in Skirts: The Public Image of Women Architects in Wilhelmine Germany
Publication: Journal of Architectural Education
Volume: 55
Issue: 2
Page: pp90-100
Date Published: November 01, 2001
Notes: Copy of the article is in the IAWA
Title: The Spoils of War: German Women Architects and the First World War
Publication: 54th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Date Published: April 01, 2001
Notes: Conference Paper
Title: Modernity, Domesticity, and the 'Haus der Frau' at the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition
Publication: 89th Annual Meeting of the College Art Association
City: Chicago
State: Illinois
Country: United States
Date Published: February 01, 2001
Notes: Conference Paper
Title: A Sense of Place: The Landscapes of Community Identity
Publication: Third Annual Arts Lecture, Luther College
City: Decorah
State: Iowa
Country: United States
Date Published: April 01, 2000
Notes: Conference Paper
Title: A Women's Berlin: How Female Patrons and Architects in Imperial Germany Re-Gendered the City
Publication: Embodies Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Built Environment
City: Chicago
State: Illinois
Country: United States
Date Published: April 01, 1999
Notes: Conference Paper for the University of Chicago's Center for Gender Studies and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts.
Title: Women Architects, Mathematics, and the Rationalized HOusehold in Germany, 1900-1930
Publication: M*A*T*H* Colloquium, Forty-Ninth Series
City: Rohnery Park
State: California
Country: United States
Date Published: September 01, 1998
Notes: Conference Paper for the Mathematics Department of Sonoma State University
Title: A Women's Berlin: Building the Modern City
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
State: Minnesota
Country: United States
Notes: Explores the conception of a city built by and for women, a place that was imagined and partially realized in the years before the first World War.
Publications About
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