Material Culture

JESSICA SEWELL

725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 305A
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Telephone: (617) 353-1471
Fax: (617) 353-3243
E-mail: jesewell@bu.edu

curriculum vitae

Assistant Professor, Art History and American Studies; American Material Culture, Architecture, Gender and Architecture, B.A. Harvard University; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Professor Jessica Sewell has been teaching at Boston University since 2003.  She is a scholar of American material culture, and gender and architecture.  Her classes include Sex, Gender, and Architecture; Studies in American Material Culture; Introduction to Architecture; and many others.  She has taught at the Binghamton University and New York University. Her current book project is Gendering the Spaces of Modernity:  Women and Public Space in San Francisco, 1890-1915, and she has published articles on gender and urbanism in a number of recent anthologies.