Nancy Stieber is an associate professor in the Art Department of the University of Massachusetts/Boston where she teaches architectural history. Specialized in the history of housing and urbanism of the twentieth century in the Netherlands, her current research examines the ways in which the city of Amsterdam was represented in a variety of media at the turn of the century. Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architecural Historians from 2002-06, she was recipient of a fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2000-01, the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2006-07 and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in 2008.
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Selected Publications
2009 “Postcards and the Invention
of Old
Amsterdam around 1900,” in Postcards:
Ephemeral Histories of Modernity, eds. Jordana Mendelson and David
Prochaska, Penn State University Press.
2008 “Marking time and space in the city: Kromhout's decorations for the investiture of Wilhelmina in Amsterdam,1925,” in Festival Architecture, eds. Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy, Routledge.
2008 “Amsterdam eternal and fleeting: the individual and representations of urban space 1925,” in Biographies and Space: Placing the subject in art and architecture, eds. Dana Arnold
and Joanna Sofaer, Routledge.
2006
“Architectural History or Cultural History of the Built Environment,”
in Rethinking Architectural Historiography, eds.
Dana Arnold, Elvan Altan Ergut and Belgin Turan Ozkaya, Routledge.
2006
“The City of the Mind,” in De Stad, ed. Mieke Dings, 010 Uitgevers.
2005 “Autobiographies and Self-Portraits of the City: Comparative Sites of Urban Representation 1925,” in Reconceptualizing the History of the Built Environment in North America, Charles Warren Center and the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
2004 “Paths of empowerment:
ritual
reinscription of meaning on the plan of Amsterdam, 1886- 1925,” in Architecture as
Experience: Radical Change in Spatial Practice, eds. Dana Arnold
and Andrew
Ballentyne, Routledge.
2003 “Architecture between disciplines,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 62,no.2.
2001 “Microhistory of the Modem City: Urban Space, Its Use and Representation,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 58, no. 3.
1998 Housing
Design and Society in Amsterdam: Reconfiguring Urban Order and
Identity,
1900-1920, University of Chicago Press. Co-winner of the Spiro
Kostof Award
1999.
Selected Lectures and Papers
2005 “Berlage: Visualizing
History and
Cities,” Urban Design History as an Interdisciplinary Field session,
Changing
Boundaries: Architectural History in Transition, Institut
National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris.
2005 “Autobiographies and
Self-Portraits of
the City: Comparative Sites of Urban
Representation,”
Reconceptualizing the
History of the Built Environment in North America, Charles Warren
Center for
Studies in American History,” Harvard University.
2005 “Visual Culture,
Interdisciplinarity,
and the Amsterdam City Maid,” First Annual Symposium on Urban Cultural
History,
University of Massachusetts Boston.
2005 “Architectural History
Inside Out and
Outside In: Defining the Boundaries of the Discipline,” Tweede
Architectuurhistorische Landdag, Leiden University.
2004 “‘Groeten uit Amsterdam’:
The Perils
and Prospects of Using Postcards for Urban History,” Canadian Center
for
Architecture.
2004 “Modernities and Modernisms
in Dutch
Social Housing,” Conference on Public Housing and the Legacy of
Modernism:
Europe and America at the Architecture Department of Northeastern
University.
2004 “Architectural History? or
Cultural
History of the Built Environment?,” Symposium Rethinking Architectural
History
Writing, Architecture Department, Middle Eastern Technical University,
Ankara.
2004 “‘Old Amsterdam was Worth
A-Lookin’
At’: The Beautiful City and its Beautiful History,” Wesleyan University.
2004 “Interdisciplinarity in Architectural History,” Eerste Architectuurhistorische Landdag, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam.
2004 “Representing Amsterdam
around 1900,”
Social History Society Annual Conference, Université de Rouen.
2003, Respondant, Architecture,
History,
Pedagogy Conference, M.I.T. Department of Architecture.
2003 “Interdisciplinarity within
a
discipline-specific journal,” “Art History and Its Journals,”
Colloquium at the
Clark Art Institute, Williams College.
2003 “Amsterdam in Party Clothes:
Decoration
of the Nineteenth Century City,” Collins/Kaufmann Forum on Modern
Architecture, Columbia University.
Works in Progress
BOOKS
The
Metaphorical City: Representations of Fin-de-Siècle Amsterdam. University
of Chicago Press.
The Netherlands: Modern Architectures in
History. Reaktion Books.
Selected Grants, Awards, Honors
2008 Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
2007 Publication grant, Netherlands America Foundation.
2006-07 Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities.
2005-08 Algerine Fund Grant.
2001 Plenary Speaker of the
Society of
Architectural Historians.
2000-2001 Radcliffe Fellow,
Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study.
1999
Spiro Kostof Award.
1990-91
Research Fellow,
Architecture Department, Technical University, Delft.
1989-90
J. Paul Getty
Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and the Humanities.
1988
Outstanding
Achievement Award in Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, University
of Massachusetts.
1981-83
Catherine Bauer
Wurster Fellowship, M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies.
1979-81
Social Science
Research Council Dissertation Fellowship.