Education:

BA, MA University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; PhD, CUNY Graduate Center

Books include:

American Design; Henry Dreyfuss, Industrial Designer: The Man in the Brown Suit

Publications include:

Ergonomics in Design, 2wice, I.D., things, American Ceramics, American Craft

Curatorial works include :

"Henry Dreyfuss, Directing Design: The Industrial Designer and His Work, 1929-1972," Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; "Buckminster Fuller/Shoji Sadao," Milton Academy, MA; Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford University, CA

Presentations include:

“American Design in the MoMA Collection,” Center for Architecture, American Institute of Architects; “Modernism for the Masses,” National Building Museum, Washington, DC

Awards and honors include:

American Institute of Architects International Architecture Book Award for Monographs; Henry Allen Moe Award, New York State Historical Association; Charles F. Montgomery Award, Decorative Arts Society; Samuel H. Kress Foundation; Peter Kreuger/Christie’s Fellowship, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum