Sarah Schrank Author

Sarah Schrank is Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in United States women’s history, urban history, body theory, popular environmentalism, and critical visual studies. She received her PhD in United States history from the University of California, San Diego and has held research fellowships from the Haynes Foundation, The Huntington Library, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University, and The Wolfsonian-Florida International University. She is the author of Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) as well as numerous essays and articles on public art, urbanism, vernacular architecture, and American body culture. She is currently completing two new books, Naked: Natural Living and the American Cult of the Body for the University of Pennsylvania Press’s Nature and Culture series and Urban History Goes to the Movies: The City in the American Popular Imagination for Routledge.

Didem Ekici is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of several articles and chapters that explore the relationship between modern architecture, health, body culture, and asceticism as well as the city and memory. Her current research focuses on the transformation of architecture regarding concepts of the body in the German-speaking world of the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. It is supported by grants from Wellcome Trust in Medical History and Humanities and the German Academic Exchange.