Dietrich Neumann, as of July 1st, 2025, has been named the Christopher Chan and Michelle Ma Professor of History of Art and Architecture. 

Additionally, this year, Neumann's most recent publication was awarded a 2025 PROSE Award in the Urban Planning category by the Association of American Publishers. Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time (Yale University Press, 2024) presents a new, critical look at Mies and complicates the established narrative about him. Neumann's book has been widely reviewed, and he has given a number of talks on it or in relation to it including in Ascoli Piceno (Italy), Berlin (Germany), Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.

As chair of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award Committee for "the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar," Professor Neumann presented the Hitchcock award to Prof. Swati Chattopadhyay (UC Santa Barbara) for her book Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023) at the Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians in Atlanta, Georgia on April 23, 2025.

Finally, on May 24, Neumann delivered a talk at the IASTE (International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments) conference in Alexandria, Egypt, entitled: “Modernism’s (almost) invisible other: the long quest for traditional and vernacular architecture since the early 20th Century.”