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We seek an innovative scholar-teacher engaged in high-impact research and having wide-ranging interests in the histories of architecture 1800 to the present with a geographic specialization that complements both the expertise of our faculty and Penn’s offerings in architectural history and theory more broadly.

First Ladies As curator of an exhibition at the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery, Penns Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw tells the stories of the women who supported U.S. presidents while in the White House. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, associate professor of history of art, was the curator of the exhibition “Every Eye Is Upon Me: First Ladies of the United States” at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery. Shaw return...