Fellowships include the Guggenheim and Ford Foundations, among many others
Named a fellow of the Society of American Historians in 1985
Earned a Ph․D․ from the University of California at Berkeley
Earned her bachelor's degree in art history from New York University
Quote: "An investigator must have curiosity, determination, and an interest in unraveling the 'knots' of the past, not just the smooth, obvious strands․"
Hired as a professor by Columbia University in 1983, later becoming the school's first tenured female professor in the architecture department
Published her first of several books in 1980 only two years after finishing her graduate degree