History of Art and Architecture

Two Alumni win 2019 Graham Foundation Project Grants

Professor Sassin received a grant for her article, "Single People and Mass Housing in Germany (1850–1930): (No) Home Away From Home."

German building
Street Facade of the Catholic Ledigenheim/Gesellenhaus of Neuss, 1910, Neuss am Rhein, Germany. Msgr. Schweitzer, Hospize und Ledigenheime der kath. Gesellenvereine (M. Gladbach: Volksvereins Verlag, 1911), 75.

Erin Eckhold Sassin (PhD, 2012), Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Middlebury College, and Jonathan Mekinda '99, University of Illinois at Chicago, each received 2019 project grants from the Graham Foundation. Professor Sassin received a grant for her article, "Single People and Mass Housing in Germany (1850–1930): (No) Home Away From Home" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Professor Mekinda received a grant for his article "Building the "House of Man": Design and the Modern Home in Milan, 1933–1957."