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  • Emily Bills

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    billse@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Emily Bills

    Profile

    Emily Bills received her PhD in the history of architecture and urbanism from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She has developed and taught courses in the The New School's distance learning program since moving to Los Angeles in 2006. Her students log in to class from all around the world, from New York to Mexico City to Hong Kong. In addition to teaching the history of architecture and urban planning, Emily is the Managing Director of the Julius Shulman Institute in Los Angeles, an organization dedicated to an appreciation and understanding of photography of the built environment. Recent curatorial projects include Pedro E. Guerrero: Photographs of Modern Life, Catherine Opie: In & Around L.A., and Richard Barnes: Unnatural spaces. She writes on the history of photography, urban history, and modern architecture.


    Recent Publications

    Recent publications include essays in books Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America; Women and Things: Gendered Material Practices, 1750-1950; Engagement Party, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Visual Merchandising: The Art of Selling.


    Research Interests

    European and American urban and architectural history, telecommunications, environmental studies, and photographic representation of space.


    Awards And Honors

    Her work on telephone infrastructure and the development of Los Angeles received a Graham Foundation Carty Manny Award Citation of Special Recognition. She’s also received fellowship and grant support from the Smithsonian, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Huntington Library, and the Society of Architectural Historians. Emily also received a Faculty Development Award at The New School for online curriculum development.


    Current Courses

    Alternative Housing
    NARH 3876, Summer 2023

    Future Courses

    Urban Planning, Design, and So
    UURB 2411, Fall 2023

    Past Courses

    Housing the Modern Dweller
    NARH 3874, Summer 2022

    Spaces of Urban Protest
    UURB 3504, Fall 2022

    Urban Food Systems
    NFDS 3274, Spring 2023

    Urban Food Systems
    UURB 3274, Spring 2023

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