Gwendolyn Wright
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