Kristel Smentek, assistant professor of art history in the Department of Architecture, has won the 2009 CGS/UMI-Distinguished Dissertation Award in Humanities/Fine Arts from the Council of Graduate Schools.
More information about the award — which Smentek received for her dissertation “Art, Commerce and Scholarship in the Age of Enlightenment: Pierre-Jean Mariette and the Making of Art History” — can be found here: http://www.cgsnet.org/Default.aspx?tabid=131.
A design to save American cities
Abandoned buildings in downtown Detroit
In new book, urban studies professor Brent Ryan says shrinking American cities should stop emulating the suburbs and start supporting creative rebuilding ideas.
