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Gwendolyn Wright Biography

Birth Name:Gwendolyn Wright

Fast Facts

  • 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