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Francesca Russello Ammon Academic Appointments FRANCESCA RUSSELLO AMMON Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania 127 Meyerson Hall, 210 S. 34th St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 746-8235 | http://www.francescaammon.com | [email protected] ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2019- Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Department of City & Regional Planning, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation. * Associated Faculty Member, History Department * Executive Board Member, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program * Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for Experimental Ethnography * Fellow, Institute for Urban Research 2013-19 Assistant Professor, City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. * Colloq. Member, Penn Mellon Humanities + Urbanism + Design Initiative, 2014-18. * Andrew Mellon Faculty Fellow, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, 2016-17. 2012-13 Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, MA. EDUCATION 2012 Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University 2009 M. Phil., American Studies, Yale University 2007 M.A., History, Yale University 2005 M.E.D. (Master of Environmental Design), School of Architecture, Yale University 1998 B.S.E., Civil Engineering, Princeton University PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Book Francesca Russello Ammon, Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016). * Lewis Mumford Prize for best book in American planning history, SACRPH. * Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) / Mellon Author Award. Peer-Reviewed Articles, Chapters, and Encyclopedia Entries Francesca Russello Ammon, “Reversing the Tide of Suburban Families? The Design, Marketing, and Occupancy of Urban Renewal’s High-rise Housing,” Journal of Planning History (OnlineFirst January 2020), doi:10.1177/1538513219897989. Francesca Russello Ammon, “Picturing Preservation and Renewal: Photographs as Planning Knowledge in Society Hill, Philadelphia,” Journal of Planning Education and Research (OnlineFirst December 5, 2018), doi:10.1177/0739456X18815742. Francesca Russello Ammon, “Resisting Gentrification Amid Historic Preservation: Society Hill, Philadelphia and the Fight for Low-Income Housing,” Change Over Time 8, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 8-31, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/717926. January 2020 Ammon CV - 1 of 12 FRANCESCA RUSSELLO AMMON [email protected] Francesca Russello Ammon, “Digital Humanities and the Urban Built Environment: Preserving the Histories of Urban Renewal and Historic Preservation,” Preservation Education and Research 10 (2018): 11-30. http://www.francescaammon.com/s/Ammon-Digital- Humanities-and-the-Urban-Built-Environment-PER-2018.pdf. Francesca Russello Ammon, “Urban Renewal,” Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (2016), http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/urban-renewal/. Francesca Russello Ammon, “Post-Industrialization and the City of Consumption: Attempted Revitalization in Asbury Park, New Jersey,” Journal of Urban History 41, no. 2 (March 2015): 158-174, doi:10.1177/0096144214563510. Francesca Russello Ammon, “Unearthing Benny the Bulldozer: The Culture of Clearance in Postwar Children’s Books,” Technology and Culture 53, no. 2 (April 2012): 306-336, https://www.jstor.org/stable/41475501. Francesca Russello Ammon, “Commemoration Amid Criticism: The Mixed Legacy of Urban Renewal in Southwest Washington, D.C.,” Journal of Planning History 8, no. 3 (August 2009): 175-220, doi:10.1177/1538513209340630. Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications Francesca Russello Ammon, “But Why Do I Have to Take This Class? Making Required Courses More Meaningful,” Penn Almanac 66, no. 14, November 19, 2019, https://almanac.upenn.edu/#but-why-do-i-have-to-take-this-class-making-required- courses-more-meaningful. Francesca Russello Ammon, “Captioning Milton-Parc,” with photographs by Clara Gutsche and David Miller, in What You Can Do with the City (Canadian Centre for Architecture), October 20, 2017, https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/issues/12/what-you-can-do-with-the- city/52534/captioning-milton-parc. Francesca Russello Ammon, “Refuge, Resort, and Ruin: Real Estate Development and the Identity of Asbury Park, New Jersey,” in Liberty and Leisure in North America (Loisir et Liberté en Amérique du Nord), ed. Pierre Lagayette (Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris- Sorbonne, 2008): 41-57. Francesca Russello Ammon, “The Long Road,” Blog Post, The First Year Project, Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia, December 7, 2016. Francesca Russello Ammon, “City's Green Is All a Park Should Be,” New Haven Register (New Haven, CT), October 30, 2003. Public History Projects Francesca Russello Ammon, Principal Investigator, Preserving Society Hill: Sites and Stories of Urban Renewal in a Philadelphia Neighborhood, http://pennds.org/societyhill/ (2018). A multimedia website to map, visualize, and document the history of urban renewal in Philadelphia’s Society Hill neighborhood. Key sources include historical land use maps, photographs, architectural data, and nearly one hundred oral history interviews conducted with residents and businesspeople of the neighborhood from before, during, and after renewal. This project was developed in conjunction with Penn’s Price Lab for Digital Humanities and the Digital Scholarship Group at Penn Libraries. January 2020 Ammon CV - 2 of 12 FRANCESCA RUSSELLO AMMON [email protected] Milton-Parc Oral History Project, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada. 15 interviews (audio tapes and transcriptions) conducted with residents, activists, and practitioners involved with the rehabilitation of the Milton-Parc, Montreal, Canada, from the early 1970s through the present. Francesca Russello Ammon, “Southwest Washington, DC, Urban Renewal Area,” HABS No. DC-856, 2004, Library of Congress. Book Reviews Francesca Russello Ammon, Review of From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City, by Chloe E. Taft (U. of Chicago Press, 2016), Buildings and Landscapes 24, no. 2 (Fall 2017): 118-120, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/677872/pdf. Francesca Russello Ammon, Review of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein (Livewright/W.W. Norton, 2017), Chronicle of Higher Education, July 30, 2017, https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Government-Segregated/240738. Francesca Russello Ammon, Review of Obsolescence: An Architectural History, Daniel M. Abramson (U. of Chicago Press, 2016), Preservation Education and Research 9 (2017): 111-112, http://www.ncpe.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PER2016-v9-offprint-07- Ammon.pdf. Francesca Russello Ammon, Review of Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis, by Andrew R. Highsmith (U. of Chicago Press, 2015), Journal of American History 103, no. 1 (June 2016): 216-217, doi:10.1093/jahist/jaw088. Francesca Russello Ammon, Review of Fighting Westway: Environmental Law, Citizen Activism, and the Regulatory War that Transformed New York City, by William W. Buzbee (Cornell U. Press, 2014), Planning Perspectives 30, no. 4 (2015): 667-669, doi:10.1080/02665433.2015.1063319. Francesca Russello Ammon, Review of Pastoral and Monumental: Dams, Postcards, and the American Landscape, by Donald C. Jackson (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), Technology and Culture 55, no. 4 (October 2014): 1012-14, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/562854. Francesca Russello Ammon, Review of Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819-1919, by Nick Yablon (U. of Chicago Press, 2010), Technology and Culture 52, no. 4 (October 2011): 828-829, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/454551. FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS 2020-21 University Research Foundation Award, University of Pennsylvania, for “Preserving Society Hill: Sites and Stories of Urban Renewal in a Phila. Neighborhood.” 2019-20 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship. 2019 G. Holmes Perkins Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award for Standing Faculty, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 2019 Penn Undergraduate Research Mentorship (PURM) Award, University of Pennsylvania. January 2020 Ammon CV - 3 of 12 FRANCESCA RUSSELLO AMMON [email protected] 2018- Project Partner, Getty Research Institute, Digital Art History Program on the “Streets of Los Angeles Archive.” (Member of one of five teams selected for independent digital photographic research conducted in collaboration with the GRI) 2017-18 Trustees’ Council of Penn Women Research Grant, Alice Paul Center, University of Pennsylvania. 2017 Lewis Mumford Prize, SACRPH, best book in American planning history. 2017 Project Incubation Grant, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania. 2017 Conference Travel Grant, Penn Mellon Humanities + Urbanism + Design Initiative, University of Pennsylvania. 2016-17 Mellon Researcher, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) / Mellon Project on Architecture and/for Photography. 2016-17 Andrew Mellon Faculty Fellow, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania. 2016 Penn Undergraduate Research Mentorship (PURM) Award, University of Pennsylvania. 2015- Fellow, Penn Institute for Urban Research, University of Pennsylvania. 2014-18 Colloquium Member, Penn Mellon Humanities + Urbanism + Design Initiative, University of Pennsylvania. 2015 Penn Mellon H+U+D Graduate Seminar Grant. 2014 Penn Mellon H+U+D Course Development Grant. 2014 Anthony Sutcliffe Dissertation
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