Participant Info
- First Name
- Danielle
- Last Name
- Shapiro
- Country
- United States
- State
- MD Maryland
- dannishapiro@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Independent Scholar
- Website URL
- www.johnvassos.com
- Keywords
- Design history, American history, graphic design history, women's history, urban history, architectural history, book history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Danielle Shapiro, Ph.D. is the author of the first biography of John Vassos, John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life. She has a Ph.D. from the Department of Art History and Communications Studies from McGill University during which time she was engaged as a research fellow on the Culture of Cities project. Her awards for research on media history and design include a teaching fellowship at Harvard University, a Fulbright Award, postdoctoral fellowships at the Archives of American Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and at the Wolfsonian Museum. From 2008 to 2014, Dr. Shapiro was a Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities where she oversaw grant projects for museum exhibitions and documentary films. She was a curatorial assistant at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Museum of Design, which spawned her career long interest in industrial design. Dr. Shapiro has published in the MIT journal Design Issues, the Archives of American Art Journal, the Encyclopedia of 20th Century Photography, and the Encyclopedia of Documentary Film and has taught media studies at American University, Hunter College and Emerson College. Her book website is www.johnvassos.com.
- Recent Publications
John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)
Smithsonian Magazine, click here
Design Issues (MIT Press journal) – Review of John Heskett’s book From Toothpicks to Logos
Ciel Variable – Review of Melvin Charney Exhibit
Lewis Baltz, Encyclopedia of 20th Century Photography
Nan Goldin, Encyclopedia of 20th Century Photography,
- Media Coverage
- Dan Rodricks, Roughly Speaking; New York Times Magazine, New York Times Arts Section, Smithisonian Magazine
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- USA
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Book History, Material Culture, Museums, Public History, Urban History
