BIO / CV

Christina's CV is viewable here.

Christina E. Crawford, PhD, MArch is an historian of architecture and urban form and a trained architect and urban designer whose research specialties are socialist space and social housing in a transnational context. She is Masse-Martin NEH Professor of Art History (2022-2025), Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Architecture in the Art History Department at Emory University, Associated Faculty of the Emory History Department, Faculty of Emory's Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program, and 2021 recipient of the Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. In Fall 2023 she was visiting faculty at the Kharkiv School of Architecture (Ukraine).

Christina received her Ph.D. from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, her M.Arch. with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and her B.A. in Architecture and East European Studies with distinction from Yale University. Her first book, Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union (Cornell University Press, 2022), winner of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) Book Award and Honorable Mention for the University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies, establishes the foundations of early Soviet urban theory and practice in three seminal industrial sites: Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv, and is the recipient of funding from the Millard Meiss Publication Fund of the College Art Association, and a Digital Publishing in the Humanities/TOME subsidy from Emory University. She is also co-editor of Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917-1945 (MIT Press, 2023) with Jean-Louis Cohen and Claire Zimmerman, named a Best Architecture Book of 2023 by the Architect’s Newspaper. Christina’s new research, funded by a Getty/ACLS Fellowship in the History of Art and a Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts research and development grant explores interwar exchanges of housing expertise between the US and Europe, using Atlanta as a primary node. She has presented her work in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, the UK, and the US, and has published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Journal of Architecture, the Journal of Urban History, Harvard Design Magazine, Future Anterior, and the Journal of Architectural Education. Her article, “From Tractors to Territory: Socialist Urbanization through Standardization” in the Journal of Urban History, was selected as the inaugural winner of the 2017 Emerging Scholar Prize, Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA). At Harvard, Christina was the Sidney R. Knafel Dissertation Completion Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and her doctoral dissertation won the runner up prize of the Anthony Sutcliffe Award from the International Planning History Society in 2018. From 2020-2022, she served on the Board of the Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA).

Christina served as Vice Consul in the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg, Russia, and received a Fulbright Fellowship to Ukraine, where she researched post-Soviet Ukrainian architecture and urbanism. She also worked for over a decade as an architect and urban designer in Boston and taught architectural history and theory at Northeastern University.  Her professional work included designs for urban housing, interiors for Harvard's DuBois Institute (now Hutchins Center) for African and African American Research, master plans for local municipalities, and open space design for a waterfront city in Dubai, UAE.