Tag: Peter Christensen
How patents transformed the world of architecture
Associate professor of art history Peter Christensen has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim fellowship for his project exploring an understudied shift in architectural history.
Rochester historian takes a role in preserving world cultural heritage
Peter Christensen, an associate professor of art and art history at the University of Rochester, has a new role as a juror advising the United Nations in its work designating UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Faculty earn NEH honors for religious history, art history research
Aaron Hughes and Peter Christensen have each been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship grants.
Looking at urban history as a fight for space, power
Chicago and Delhi. Rome and Rochester. The students in the 100-level course “The City: Contested Spaces” take a virtual tour of them all, while pondering an overarching question—can people’s lives be reshaped by redesigning urban spaces?
Finding roots of globalization in Ottoman Empire’s railway
In his new book, assistant professor of art history Peter Christensen focuses on infrastructure—railway stations specifically—and their place in architectural history not just as technology, but also as art.
Award supports book on Ottoman Railway
Peter Christensen’s book shows how the late 19th-early 20th century German-designed train stations, bridges, and other structures along the Ottoman Railway show the trademarks of imperialism and elements of emergent nationalism.
NEH grants support three Rochester professors
Susan Uselmann and Thomas Devaney were awarded “Enduring Questions” grants, which aim to help in “the development of a new course that demonstrates the enduring value of the Humanities by extending beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.” Peter Christensen has received a Summer Stipend.