Christina E. Crawford

Associate Professor, Architectural History, Emory University Art History Department

Christina E. Crawford is an historian of architecture and urban form and a trained architect. Her first book, Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union (Cornell University Press, 2022), explores the foundations of early Soviet urban theory and practice through investigation of specific industrial sites, and this new project, Atlanta Housing Interplay, investigates international transfer of ideas about social housing using the first federally-funded housing projects in the U.S.—Atlanta’s Techwood + University Homes (1934-37)—as principal nodes. Christina was a Getty/ACLS Fellow in the History of Art for 2020-21, to work on this project. She has presented her work in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, the UK, and the US, and has published in Future Anterior, Harvard Design Magazine, the Journal of Architectural Education, and the Journal of Urban History, among other publications. She received her Ph.D. and M.Arch from Harvard University, and her B.A from Yale University. For more information, see Christina's scholarly website, or her Emory website.