VITA January 2016 CAROLYN S. LOEB Associate Dean for Academic Programs Associate Professor, Art and Architectural History Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Michigan State University Email: loeb@msu.edu C210 Snyder Hall, 362 Bogue Street Phone: 517.884.1322 East Lansing, Michigan 48825 Fax: 517.884.1244 Education Ph.D., 1990, Graduate Center, City University of New York, Art History M.A., 1973, San Francisco State College, Art History B.A., 1968, University of California, Berkeley, Sociology Teaching History Michigan State University, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Associate Dean (2011- ) Associate Professor (2007- ) Director of Visual Arts Exhibition Spaces (2007- ) Lingnan University, Department of Visual Studies, Hong Kong, Visiting Professor (Summer 2015) Central Michigan University, Art Department Associate Professor (2000-07) Assistant Professor (1990-2000; tenured 1990) Instructor (1980-1990) Midwest Consortium for Study Abroad: Vienna, Academic Director (Spring 1994) Olivet College, Instructor (1978-80) Eastern Michigan University, Instructor (Spring 1978) Michigan State University, Instructor (Fall 1977) New School for the Performing Arts, Buffalo NY, Instructor (1973-74) Erie Community College, Williamsville NY, Instructor (Spring 1973) San Francisco State College, Graduate Assistant (Spring 1972) Publications: Book Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers Subdivisions in the 1920s, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 Publications: Edited Book The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity, co- edited with Andreas Luescher, Farnham, England, and Burlington, Vermont, USA: Ashgate, 2015 Publications: Book Chapters The Politics of Public and Private Space: Housing and Urbanism in Divided Berlin, in Edward 1
Murphy, ed. Infrastructures of Home and City: The Problem of Housing in Modern Urban Society, London and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2013, pp. 79-99 Cultural Memory After the Fall of the Wall: The Case of Checkpoint Charlie, co- authored with Andreas Luescher, in Max Stephenson and Laura Zanotti, eds. Building Walls, Securitizing Space, and the Making of Identity, London and Burlinton, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2013, pp. 176-191 Global Art History and Transcultural Studies, in James Elkins, Zhivka Valiavicharska, and Alice Kim, eds. Art and Globalization, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010, pp. 226-228 Publications: Articles West Berlin Walls: Public Art and the Right to the City, Public Art Dialogue 4:1 (Spring 2014), pp. 100-120 The City as Subject: Contemporary Public Sculpture in Berlin, Journal of Urban History 35:6 (September 2009), pp. 853-878 Planning Reunification: The Planning History of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Planning Perspectives (U.K.) 21 (January 2006), pp. 67-87 Publications: Book Reviews Who Misgoverns, review of Douglas Rae, City, The Review of Politics v. 66:4 (Fall 2004), pp. 712-13 The Old New Urbanism, review essay on Mary Banham, et al., eds. A Critic Writes: Essays by Reyner Banham; Eve Blau, The Architecture of Red Vienna; and Richard Longstreth, On the Edge of the World: Four Architects in San Francisco at the Turn of the Century, Journal of Urban History (September 2003), pp. 833-841 Review of Joseph C. Bigott, From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869-1929, Labor History v. 44:2 (May 2003) Publications: Entries Subdivisions in J. Grossman, J. Reiff, A. Keating, eds. Encyclopedia of Chicago History, Chicago: University of Chicago Press/Newberry Library, 2004 "Subdivision" in Neil Larry Shumsky, ed. The Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC- Clio, 1998 "Ford Homes" in Kathryn B. Eckert, ed. Buildings of Michigan, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 "Regionalism" in Milton W. Brown, The Modern Spirit, American Painting 1908-1935, London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977 Publications: Art Reviews and Critical Essays "James Adley, Alison McMaugh," critical review, New Art Examiner, May 1989 "New from New York," critical review, New Art Examiner, January 1988 "Painter Uses Landscape as an Artist's Language," critical review, Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun, 7 2
March 1986 Critical reviews, Midland Daily News, 1984-85, 1982-83 Review of "Dogs!" and "The Dog Observed: Photographs, 1844-1984," February 1985 Review of 26th Annual Mid- Michigan Exhibition, November 1984 "Three Exhibits Offer Viewer Variety," 6 October 1984 "Critic Views Art as Sensual, Historical," 27 September 1984 Review of "Images of Labor" and "Asian Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Art," June 1983 "'Fans- Fibers- Fashions' Results Mixed," 20 April 1983 "Butcher's Canvases Lack Cohesion," 9 March 1983 "Mid- Michigan Reflects Modern Variety," 9 February 1983 "New Artists Turn to Traditional Media," 15 December 1982 "'Totems' Shape Light and Color," 3 November 1982 "Ceremony and Ceremonial Objects," critical review, Detroit Focus Quarterly, March 1983 "Art in Suitcases," catalogue essay, University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, 1982 Publications: Other Reimagining the City: West Berlin Murals and the Right to the City, Lisbon Street Art and Urban Creativity 2014 International Conference, eds. Pedro Soares Neves and Daniela V. de Freitas Simões, Lisbon, 2014 "Red Vienna and the Construction of Democratic Space" in Building as a Political Act, Proceedings of the 1997 ACSA International Conference, Washington, D.C.: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 1998 "'Associational Progressivism' and the Shaping of Suburban Subdivisions in the 1920s," Proceedings of the Third National Conference on American Planning History, Columbus, Ohio: Society for American City and Regional Planning History, 1991 "'Associational Progressivism' and the Shaping of Suburban Subdivisions in the 1920s," Society for American City and Regional Planning History Working Papers Series, 1990 "Perspectives on the Shaping of a Suburban Vernacular: The Ford Homes and Modernism," in Thomas Carter and Bernard L. Herman, eds. Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, III, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989 Presentations Reimagining the City: West Berlin Murals and the Right to the City, International Conference on Street Art and Urban Creativity, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, July 2014 Housing in Divided Berlin: Public and Private Space, conference on Infrastructures of Home and City: The Problem of Housing in Modern Urban Society, Michigan State University, October 2010 Watercities in the New Berlin: The Case of Stralau, 12 th National Conference on Planning History, Portland, ME, October 2007 The City as Subject: Contemporary Public Sculpture in Berlin, Art and the City: A Conference on Postwar Interactions with the Urban Realm, Institutes of Cultural Analysis and of Art History, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 2006 Planning Reunification: The Planning History of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, 10 th National 3
Conference on Planning History, St. Louis, November 2003 Commemorating the Past, Constructing the Future: Recent Monuments in Berlin, 3 rd Savannah Symposium: Commemoration and the City, Savannah College of Art and Design, February 2003 Housing Redevelopment in Eastern Germany: Acting Locally, Thinking Globally, 9 th Biennial Conference on American Planning History, Philadelphia/Camden, November 2001 On Boundaries: Berlin After the Wall, 8 th Biennial Conference on American Planning History, Washington, D.C., November 1999 "Red Vienna and the Making of a City," 7th National Conference on American Planning History, Seattle, October 1997 "Red Vienna and the Construction of Democratic Space," Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture International Conference, Berlin, June 1997 "Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s: Theme and Variations," Fifth National Conference on American Planning History, Chicago, 1993 "Realtors and the Shaping of Suburbia," Twelfth World Congress of Sociology, Research Committee on Regional and Urban Development, Madrid, 1990 "'Associational Progressivism' and the Shaping of Suburban Subdivisions in the 1920s," Third National Conference on American Planning History, Cincinnati, 1989 "Reflections on Women's Identity: Paula Modersohn- Becker and Barbara Kruger," Faculty Seminar on Women Artists: Critical Issues, Michigan State University, 1988 "Perspectives on the Shaping of a Suburban Vernacular: The Ford Homes and Modernism," Vernacular Architecture Forum annual meeting, Kingston NY, 1986 "Fordist Housing and Modernism," Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Annual Meeting, Mt. Pleasant MI, 1986 Grants, Awards, and Honors CASID/GenCen Curriculum Development award, 2014 Fulbright German Studies Seminar, Berlin: Where Cultures Meet and Challenges Abound, 2013 Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant, MSU Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, to fund Perspectives on African- American Experience: Emerging Visions, annual exhibition series at RCAH LookOut! Art Gallery and artist s residency, 2011-2013, 2013-14 Nomination, best published paper 2006, Association of European Schools of Planning, Planning Reunification: The Planning History of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Planning Perspectives (U.K.) Presentation Grants, Faculty Research and Creative Endeavors Committee, Central Michigan University, 2006, 2003 (2), 1997 (2), 1990, 1986 Research Professorship, Central Michigan University, Spring 2002 Fulbright German Studies Seminar, Urban Planning in Germany, 2001 DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/German Academic Exchange Service) grant, Goethe Institute, Murnau, Germany, 2000 Sabbatical Support Grant, Faculty Research and Creative Endeavors Committee, Central Michigan University, 1998-99 4
American Sociological Association ISA Travel Award, July 1990 Other Professional Activities Panel participant, Remembering the Wall, MSU Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian & African Languages, 2014 Presentation, Walls of West Berlin: Public Art and the Right to the City, RCAH Brown Bag, November 2013 Member, State of Michigan Historic Preservation Office Review Board, 2003-2012 Vice- president, 2005-07, 2012 President 2007-08 Session co- chair, Frontiers: Topographies of Surveillance and Flows, Society of Architectural Historians annual conference, 2012 Manuscript reviewer, Business History, 2012 Presenter, The Arts and the Strengthening of Civil Society in Mali, MSU African Studies Center Speaker Series panel, Religion and Civil Society in Mali: Observations of an MSU Delegation, 2011 Session co- chair, Afterlife: The Berlin Wall s Continuing Cultural Presence, College Art Association annual conference, 2010 Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Urban History, 2008 Panelist, book roundtable on Jeffrey Hornstein, A Nation of Realtors: A Cultural History of the 20 th Century Middle Class, Social Science History Association, Chicago, 2007 Manuscript reviewer, Planning Perspectives, 2007 Manuscript reviewer, Planning Perspectives, 2006 Manuscript reviewer, Michigan Historical Review, 2006 Guest lecturer, Integrative Studies 231A, Michigan State University, 2005 Manuscript reviewer, Labor, 2005 Outside reviewer for tenure and promotion, Roosevelt University, 2003 Manuscript reviewer, The Ohio State University Press, 2003 Thesis reviewer for Distinguished Master s Thesis Award of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools, 2000 Guest lecturer, Vienna Program, Michigan Consortium for Study Abroad, 1999 Public lecturer, The Action Painters: American- Type Painting, Midland Center for the Arts, 1997 Juror, Theodora Kimball Hubbard Prize Committee, Society for American City and Regional Planning History, 1995 Public lecturer, "Women and Art: In the Mainstream or Against the Current?," five- lecture series, Midland Center for the Arts, 1994 Session chair, "Company Influence on the Planning of Industrial Cities," Fourth National Conference on American Planning History/Fifth International Conference Planning History Group, Richmond, 1991 Manuscript reviewer, William C. Brown Publishers, 1991 Session chair, "Feminist Art History," Women's Studies Program/Modern Literature Conference, "Re- visioning the Curriculum: Feminist Perspectives," Michigan State University, 1990 Mentor for Interlochen Academy recipient of National Fellowship for Independent Study in the 5
Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1987 Manuscript reviewer, Holt Rinehart and Winston publishers, 1987, 1985, 1982, 1981 Textbook reviewer, Random House, 1986 Docent training lecturer, "The Figure: Trends in Contemporary Art," Midland Arts Council, 1985 Public lecturer, "Chairs," The Virginia M. McCune Community Art Center, Petosky MI, 1983 Film series organizer, "Trends in Contemporary Art," April 1979; "An Invitation to the Renaissance," 1980, Olivet College Research assistant, "American Painting 1908-1935," exhibition organized by Milton W. Brown for Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977 Speaker- series organizer, "Art in Transformation," 7th Alternative Summer, sponsored by Education Collective and New University Conference, New York University, 1976 Foreign Language Competence for Research German, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin Memberships in Professional Organizations College Art Association Society of Architectural Historians Society for American City and Regional Planning History Urban History Association Vernacular Architecture Forum Historians of German and Central European Art Radical Art Caucus 6