University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
College of Fine and Applied Arts
101 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
611 Lorado Taft Drive, MC-620
Champaign, Illinois 61820
phone: (217) 333-0176
fax: (217) 244-4568
email: ladept@illinois.edu
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Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America by Professor Dianne Harris was published in February by the University of Minnesota Press.
Professor Dianne Harris’ essay, "Mad Space," was published in Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s (Duke University Press, 2013).
The "Domesticity" section for an online exhibit just launched by the Getty, "Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940-1990", was authored/curated by Professor Dianne Harris.
Professor D. Fairchild Ruggles was honored as one from a pool of over 1,200 scholars selected for a fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies in 2013-14.
Professor Dianne Harris will serve as Chair of the Board of the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University where in March she also gave an invited lecture on digital humanities and learned societies.
The Landscape Architecture Foundation has selected UIUC faculty members Elen Deming and Jinki Kim as Research Fellows for their Case Study Investigation program for 2013.
Ph.D. student Jennifer Thomas received the prestigious Graduate Student Fellowship Award from the Program for Research in the Humanities.
Ph.D. and MLA student team Yuling Huang, Xinran Ren, Danyao Zhou, Dian Feng, Xiaolu Zhou & Bin Jiang received short-list certificate for the "Transiting Cities - Low Carbon Futures" International Design Ideas Competition.
