Contributors
Daniella Berman
is an art historian and curator specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art. Trained at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, Berman has contributed to various exhibitions and publications, including Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022).
Mosette Broderick
is Clinical Professor in the Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture at New York University. Broderick is also Director of Urban Design and Architecture Studies; Director of the M.A. in Historical and Sustainable Architecture, London; and Director of the Urban Design in London Summer Program at New York University.
Alisa Chiles
is Assistant Curator of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she oversees the collection of decorative arts after 1700. She specialized in modern architecture and decorative arts during her graduate studies at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania.
Grace Chuang
is an art historian specializing in European decorative arts and interior decoration of the long eighteenth century and their echoes in the Gilded Age. Holding graduate degrees from the Bard Graduate Center and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, Chuang has published on furniture and tapestries.
Jean-Louis Cohen
is the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Trained as an architect and an art historian in Paris, Cohen has curated many exhibitions and published more than forty books.
Isabelle Gournay
is Emerita at the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, University of Maryland, and has written extensively on Franco-American topics and planned communities. Trained as an architect in Paris, Gournay co-edited Paris on the Potomac: The French Influence on the Architecture and Art of Washington, D.C. (2007) and is working on a book on Beaux-Arts trained architects in North America.
Christie Mitchell
is a cultural worker and contemporary art curator. Mitchell currently serves as the Executive Director of the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, an organization providing arts and music resources, exhibitions, art classes, and year-round concerts and public programs to the San Diego community.
Theodore Prudon
practices architecture in New York City and teaches in the graduate program for historic preservation at Columbia University. Prudon is a fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and the founding president of Docomomo US.
Jon Ritter
is Clinical Professor in the Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture at New York University. President of the Society of Architectural Historian’s New York Chapter, Ritter holds a doctorate from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
Matthew Worsnick
teaches history of architecture and design at Vanderbilt University. Worsnick holds a doctorate from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University. Worsnick’s scholarship examines the built environments of contested territories and the roles of art and architecture in the mental mapping of urban and post-conflict spaces.