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Christina E. Crawford is the Masse-Martin NEH Professor of Art History (2022–2025) and Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Architecture at Emory University's Art History Department. She holds additional affiliations with the History Department and Emory's Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program. Her research focuses on socialist space, transnational housing exchanges, and Soviet urban theory. Notable works include Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union (2022), winner of the SESAH Book Award, and co-edited Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917–1945 (2023).
Her Ph.D. (Harvard, 2016), M.Arch. (Harvard GSD, 2003), and B.A. (Yale, 1995) reflect her interdisciplinary expertise. She has held visiting roles at the Kharkiv School of Architecture (2023) and received awards like the Emory Williams Teaching Award (2021). Research projects include the Atlanta Housing Interplay, funded by the Getty Foundation and others, exploring New Deal housing projects.
Publications span architectural journals, edited volumes, and public essays, emphasizing transnational urban histories and socialist spatial practices. Her work bridges historical analysis with contemporary urban challenges, advocating for the preservation of socialist-era urban landscapes.
Awards: NEH Fellowship (2025), SESAH Book Award (2023), Emory Williams Award (2021), Emerging Scholar Prize (2017).
Grants: Getty Foundation, ACLS, Graham Foundation.
