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Dianne Harris: “Framing Los Angeles, 1960: Case Study House #22 and the Architecture of Whiteness”

350 MIller Learning Center

Dianne Harris is Dean of the College of Humanities and professor of history at the University of Utah. She holds a doctorate in architectural history from the University of California, Berkeley and is best known for her scholarly contributions to the study of “race and space” – the relationship between the built environment and construction of racial and class identities. Her books include The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape, and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Lombardy, Maybeck’s Landscapes: Drawing in Nature, and Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America. She is also editor of the multidisciplinary volume Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania, series editor for the University of Pittsburgh Press’s “Culture, Politics, and The Built Environment” and co-editor of several works. Contact the WIllson Center: wcha@uga.edu.

 

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