Historic Preservation and Architectural History
Suzanne Singletary, PhD
Professor, History & Theory, Archival Research, Historic Preservation
Contact Information
Jefferson - East Falls Campus
4201 Henry Avenue
Architecture & Design Center, Room 208
Philadelphia, PA 19144
Professor, History & Theory, Archival Research, Historic Preservation
Areas of Specialization
Education
PhD, Art History, Temple University
MA, Art History, University of Denver
BFA, Temple University
Publications
Co-editor and Author, Shades of Night: Exploring the Nocturne, Crosscurrents from Romanticism to Modernism, forthcoming Routledge 2027.
Invited Contributor, James McNeill Whistler's reception and artistic legacy: inventing Whistlerism, forthcoming Routledge, June 2026.
Invited Contributor, “The Whirlwind: Whistler and Mallarmé,” The Ten O’Clock, the journal of the Whistler Society, Number 5: 2024.
Co-author and Co-editor, Emergence of a Modern Dwelling: Richard Neutra’s Hassrick House. ORO Editions, 2021.
Invited Reviewer, Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, and Rebel, at the Barnes Foundation, for HerStory, December 2021.
Invited Author, “James McNeill Whistler: A Conduit Between France and America,” in exhibition catalog, Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France, Yale University Press, 2021.
Invited Reviewer, H-France Review, Vol. 19 (April 2019). Marilyn Brown, The Gamin de Paris in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture: Delacroix, Hugo, and the French Social Imaginary, Routledge, 2017. James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017).
Invited Reviewer, caa.reviews (College Art Association), Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture, Exhibition at Fabric Workshop and Museum (August 11-November 5, 2017) and Catalog, curated by the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein.
Biography
Suzanne Singletary teaches the history and theory of historic preservation, architecture and design. She has been involved in the development of the History of Architecture and Interiors series and taught seminars in thesis research and preparation, photography and visual culture, and contemporary architecture. As Director of the Master of Science in Historic Preservation and the Center for the Preservation of Modernism, Dr. Singletary teaches courses on critical issues in preservation and the restoration and rehabilitation of modern and mid-century modern buildings and sites. She is the co-author of Emergence of a Modern Dwelling: Richard Neutra’s Hassrick House (2021). Currently, she also serves as Associate Dean for New Academic Initiatives and Graduate Studies.
Her research interests include interdisciplinary aspects of art, architecture, literature and music. She has participated in national and international symposia and been an invited speaker at the National Gallery of Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of London, the Tate Britain, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Taft Museum, Cincinnati and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has published articles on Eugène Delacroix, French Symbolism, and Francesco Goya, and contributed essays to Impressionist Interiors (National Gallery of Ireland 2008), Perspectives on Manet (Ashgate 2012) and Rival Sisters (Ashgate 2014). Her book, James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music was published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group (2017).
Professor Singletary is a member of Docomomo, ICOMOS, the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, the College Art Association, the Association of the Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, the Society of Architectural Historians, the Midwest Art History Society, the Association of Historians of American Art, and the Association of Art Historians.
AWARDS
Provost Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2021
College Award for Mentoring, 2019
President’s Award for Teaching Excellence, Philadelphia University, 2015
Gallery of Success, Temple University, 2008