Gabrielle Esperdy
Gabrielle Esperdy is an architectural historian and Associate Professor of
Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her work examines
the intersection of architecture, consumerism, and modernism in the urban
and suburban landscape, especially in the U.S. in the 20th century. She is
especially interested in the ways that social, economic, and political issues shape the built environment, historically and today. Her first book is Modernizing Main Street:
Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal, University of Chicago Press (2008). She is currently at work on her second book, tentatively entitled Architecture's American Road Trip, that examines how architectural discourse absorbed the concerns of
commercial sphere after World War II. Her articles have appeared in the
Journal of Architectural Education, the History of Photography, the Journal
of International Women's Studies, and Architectural Design. Gabrielle received her B.A. from Smith College and her PhD from the City University of New York.