Despina Stratigakos
Assistant Professor
office: Hayes Annex B 01Q
phone : 716 829 5893
e-mail : dms58@buffalo.edu
Assistant Professor Despina Stratigakos is an architectural historian with an overarching interest in gender and modernity in European cities. Her recent book, A Women’s Berlin (University of Minnesota Press 2008), explores the conception of a city built by and for women, a place that was imagined and partially realized in the years before the First World War. The book has received international recognition with the DAAD Book Prize of the German Studies Association and the Milka Bliznakov Prize from Virginia Tech. Stratigakos has also published on the public image of women architects, the gender politics of the Werkbund, connections between architectural and sexual discourses in Weimar Germany, and exiled Jewish women architects in the United States. Her 2007 exhibition on "Architect Barbie" at the University of Michigan received national media attention. Stratigakos is currently working on a new book, Hitler at Home, which investigates the architectural and ideological construction of the Führer’s domesticity. This research is funded by grants from the Graham Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. In fall 2010, Stratigakos will be a visiting scholar at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. In spring 2011, she will be a faculty fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Rice University. Stratigakos received her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College and taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at the University of Buffalo’s Department of Architecture.
