Participant Info
- First Name
- Kristina
- Last Name
- Borrman
- Country
- United States
- State
- kristina.borrman@wsu.edu
- Affiliation
- Washington State University
- Website URL
- https://sdc.wsu.edu/faculty-staff/kristina-borrman/
- Keywords
- housing, public housing, segregation, Black architects, architecture, United States, redlining, insurance
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Kristina Borrman is Assistant Professor of Architecture History at Washington State University’s School of Design and Construction. Borrman’s research explores the American housing crisis of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is currently a long-term fellow at the Huntington Library, where she is writing her second book manuscript “Banking by Design: Paul Revere Williams and the Architectures of Financial Activism.” Borrman’s first book manuscript “The Open Housers: The Struggle to Desegregate Public Housing in the United States” is under review with University of Pittsburgh Press for their Race, Culture, and the Built Environment Series.
- Recent Publications
“Naming, Blaming, and Claiming: The Columbus Monument and the Struggle for Diversity Rights in Syracuse, New York,” Panorama, Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art (Nov. 2022)
“Studying Friendship in Housing: The School of Architecture at MIT in the Postwar Years,” Journal of Urban History (Nov., 2020)
“One Standardized House for All: America’s Little House,” Buildings and Landscapes, Vol. 24, No. 2, Fall 2017
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Material Culture, Race, Urban History
