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During her thirty-five years at the Cummings School of Architecture, Gail Fenske has taught a broad range of subjects in art and architectural history, including the history of modern architecture, American architecture and urbanism, skyscrapers, and global art and architecture, in addition to architectural design.  In her teaching and research, she emphasizes art and architecture’s intersection with broader social and cultural contexts, among them urban, technological, and visual, with the latter incorporating the printed media, photography, and film.

She is the author of The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and Skyscrapers: Landmarks in American Cities, currently in preparation for publication with the Library of Congress.  She is also the author of several essays in books, among them Skyscraper Gothic (University of Virginia Press, 2017), The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and The Landscape of Modernity (John Hopkins University Press, 1997), and of the bibliography “Skyscrapers” for Oxford Bibliographies in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (Oxford University Press, 2020).

In addition to her research on skyscrapers, she has published on “regionalism” in architecture and the related visual and literary arts, as co-editor and contributor to Aalto and America (Yale University Press, 2012) and in an essay on the California Bay Region for The Education of the Architect (MIT Press, 1997).

In support of her research, she has received funding from the University’s Foundation to Promote Scholarship and Teaching, the Graham Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Winterthur and Hagley Museums, and the American Institute of Architects. 

She has served as Book Review Editor, the Americas, for the Society of Architectural Historians Journal, in the Office of Secretary, Society of Architectural Historians (for two terms), and on the Board of Directors for the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and MIT).  She has held visiting professorships at Wellesley and MIT. 

At �鶹ɫ��Ƭ, she served as Director, Program in Art & Architectural History for the Cummings School of Architecture as well as serving on the University’s Honors Advisory Council, Faculty Senate, and the Foundation to Promote Scholarship and Teaching.  She has received recognition for her teaching, including “Most Influential Professor” from the University’s Alpha Chi Honor Society.
 

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