CONTRIBUTOR:

Lauren M. O'Connell

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Art History

INSTITUTION:

Ithaca College

BIOGRAPHY:

Lauren M. O’Connell is an architectural historian and Professor of Art History at Ithaca College with specialty in 18th and 19th century France. Her writings on Viollet-le-Duc, architectural impacts of the French Revolution, the history of attitudes toward the architectural past, and artistic relations between France and Russia have appeared in edited volumes and in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, The Art Bulletin, History of Photography, and Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide; she is translator of The Invention of the Historic Monument by Françoise Choay. She earned her Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urbanism at Cornell University and her work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the Canadian Center for Architecture.