Rebecca Houze
Ph. D., University of Chicago
Assistant Professor, Art History
Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts
Graduate Seminars
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Assistant Professor Rebecca Houze is a specialist in the history of architecture, design and the decorative arts. She received her B.A. from the University of Washington (1993) and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1994, 2000). Her research centers on the relationship between art and industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 2004 she received a Fulbright Joint Austrian-Hungarian Research Award for her work on Central European design history. Professor Houze has published reviews and articles in Studies in the Decorative Arts, Journal of Design History, Design Issues, Fashion Theory, Textile, and Centropa. Her most recent articles explore the exhibitions of Austrian, Hungarian and Romanian needlework at the 1873 Vienna World’s Fair. She is currently at work on a book, Principles of Dress: Nationalism, Imperialism, and Modern Design in Austria-Hungary, 1867-1918. |
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