Theses About Women

Akhter, Anam. “Modernism and Identity in the Indian Subcontinent: A Sketch of Minnette de Silva and her Works.” MS Arch. thesis, University of Cincinnati, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2018.

Ahrentzen, Sherry, and Janette McCoy, eds. “‘Doing Diversity’: A Compendium of Architectural Courses Addressing Diversity Issues in Architecture.” Washington, DC: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 1996.

Allaback, Sarah. “The Writings of Louisa Tuthill: Cultivating Architectural Taste in 19th Century America.” PhD diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993.

Arceneaux, Kathleen Dugas. “The Script Analogue and its Application in Architectural Analysis: The Relationship of African Women to African Traditional Architecture.” PhD diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1989.

Arnett, Roberta June. “Female and Male Images in the Built Environment: A Study of Dominant Cultural Images in Architecture, and Women Architects in Oregon.” MA thesis, University of Oregon, 1975.

Aron, Jamie Suzanne. “Woven Images: From the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop to the Knoll Textile Division.” MA thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2013.

Bi, Liqun. “Paths to Women Leadership in Sustainable Architecture Education.” PhD thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2019.

Birmingham, Elizabeth Joy. “Marion Mahony Griffin and the Magic of America: Recovery, Reaction and Re-Entrenchment in the Discourse of Architectural Studies.” PhD diss., Iowa State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2000.

Cahn, Elizabeth. “Project Space(s) in the Design Professions: An Intersectional Feminist Study of the Women’s School of Planning and Architecture (1974–1981).” PhD diss., University of Massachusetts, 2014.

Corroto, Carla. “Constructing Architects: A Critical Ethnogeography.” PhD diss., Ohio State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1996.

Costanzo, Jennifer. “‘Add Women and Stir’: A Look at Women’s Status in Architectural Practice.” M. Arch. thesis, Miami University, 1996.

Davis, Mary McPherson. “Feminist Applepieville: Architecture as Social Reform in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Fiction.” MA thesis, University of Missouri-Columbia, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2007.

Dennis, Kimberly L. “Re-Constructing the Counter Reformation: Women Architectural Patrons in Rome and the Case of Camilla Peretti.” PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2005.

Devine, Carmen. “Domestic Design and Feminist Conceptual Art.” MA thesis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2003.

Diaz, Jeannette. “Empowerment and Learning to Design in a First Semester Studio: Students and Their Professor’s Experience Integrating Cultural Feminist Pedagogy into a Traditional Architecture Studio.” PhD diss., University of Massachusetts, 1998.

Droste, Christiane. “Women Architects in West and East Berlin 1949–1969: Reconstructing the Difference: A Contribution to Berlin Building History and Knowledge about Women Architects’ Conditions of Professionalization.” PhD diss., University of Westminster, UK, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2014.

El-Rafey, Moshira Abdel Razek. “Housing and Women: Reconstruction of Women’s Point of View.” PhD diss., University of Michigan, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1992.

Eyerdam, Pamela J. “Maya Ying Lin and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: The War Between Art and Politics.” MA thesis, Kent State University, 1993.

Fantozzi, Carla Maria. “Hearst Castle: The Creation of a California Monument.” MA thesis, University of Southern California, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1984.

Figueroa Rubero, Norma Isabel. “The Masculine Construction of the Profession and Women Architects in Practice in Puerto Rico, from 1960–1979.” PhD diss., University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2008.

Fisher, Kyle Ross. “Skirting the House: The Evolution of the Women’s Home, 1890–1910.” MA thesis, Rice University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1996.

Foust, Constance Beth. “Exploring Gender and Meaning: From Myth to Building.” MArch thesis, Miami University, 1993.

Garfinkle, Charlene Gallo. “Women at Work: The Design and Decoration of the Woman’s Building at the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition. Architecture Exterior Sculpture, Stained Glass, and Interior Murals.” PhD diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1996.

Geraci, Victor W. “Beverly Willis, A Life in Architecture Oral History Transcript.” Berkeley, CA: The Regents of the University of California, 2006–2008.

Grimes, Sharon E. “Women in the Studios of Men: Gender, Architectural Practice, and the Careers of Sophia Hayden Bennett and Marion Mahony Griffin, 1870–1960.“ PhD diss., Saint Louis University, 2007.

Gruskin, Nancy Beth. “Building Context: The Personal and Professional Life of Eleanor Raymond, Architect (18871989). PhD diss., Boston University, 1998.

Guttman, Naomi Ellen. “Women Writing Gardens: Nature, Spirituality and Politics in Women’s Garden Writing.” PhD diss., University of Southern California, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1999.

Hanna, Bronwyn J. “Absence and Presence: A Historiography of Early Women Architects in New South Wales.” PhD diss., University of New South Wales, Australia, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2000.

Harris, Elizabeth Edwards. “Phoebe Apperson Hearst and the Changing Nature of 19th Century Architectural Patronage.” PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2002.

Haskins, Heather Victoria. “Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: The Critical Reception of Women’s Work at the Arts Camp; Crafts Exhibition Society, 1888–1916.” PhD diss., Concordia University (Canada), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2005.

Hays, Johanna. “Louise Blanchard Bethune: Architect Extraordinaire and the First American Woman Architect, Practiced in Buffalo, New York (1881–1905).” PhD diss., Auburn University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2007.

Hewlings, Katharine L. “Suppressed Stories and a Critique of the National Register of Historic Places: Documenting the Challenges and Obstacles of Women Architects at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” MS thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2018.

Hodges, Margaret Emily. “Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and H.P. Daniel van Ginkel: Urban Planning.” PhD diss., McGill University, Canada, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2004.

Hodges, Margaret Emily. “Sigrun Bulow-Hube: Scandinavian Modernism in Canada.” MA thesis, Concordia University, Canada, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1996.

Hofstra, Phillip G. “Florence Knoll, Design and the Modern American Office Workplace.” PhD diss., University of Kansas, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2008.

Johnson, Christa C. “Engendering Space: Architectures of Sexual Difference in Early Twentieth-Century Germany.” PhD diss., ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1998.

Kelly, Elizabeth Brooke. “Being the Other: Women in Traditionally Male-Dominated Fields.” MA thesis, Michigan State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1999.

Knight, Jane Alison. “An Examination of the History of the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for Women, Groton, Massachusetts, 1901–1945.” MA thesis, Cornell University, 1986.

Koenigsberg, Lisa. “Professionalizing Domesticity: A Tradition of American Women Writers on Architecture.” PhD diss., Yale University, 1987.

Kuehl, Anna. “First the Kitchen, then the Façade: Designing Neues Bauen for the Neue Frau.” MA thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2011.

Kuehn, Kelsey. “Architecture as an Act of Transfer: Framing Denise Scott Brown’s Architectural Practice with Performance.” MA thesis, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2019.

Kunasek, Kimberly Ann Oei. “Anne Graham Rockfellow: Who Was She? What Was Her Contribution to the History of Architecture?” MA thesis, University of Arizona, 1994.

Kuribayashi, Tomoko. “Turning the World Inside Out: Architecture and the Female Body in Contemporary Women’s Fiction.” PhD diss., University of Minnesota, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1994.

Laurence, Dianne Susan Duffner. “A Symbiotic Relationship Between Mid Century Modern Masters: The Collaborative Works of Arthur and Marie Berger, Landscape Architects, and O’Neil Ford, Architect.” MLA thesis, University of Texas at Arlington, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2007.

Lester, Margaret. “Specialization and Significance: An Assessment of the Career and Works of Minerva Parker Nichols.” MA thesis. University of Pennsylvania, 2012.

Makinen, Anne Elisabet. “Suomen Valkoinen Sotilasarkkitehtuuri, 1926–1939.” F.T. thesis, Helsingin Yliopisto, Finland, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2000.

Martin, Rochelle. “The Difficult Path: Women in the Architecture Profession.” PhD diss., University of Michigan, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1986.

Massey, Carissa Ann. “Mary Colter: Southwestern Architect and Innovator of Indigenous Style.” MA thesis, Marshall University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2003.

Matusik, Barbara Ann. “The Phenomena of Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter: Creating an Architectural Sense of Place on Grand Canyon.” PhD diss., University of Florida, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017.

McDermott, Anne. “Look Through the Glass Ceiling in Architecture.” MArch thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, 1993.

McNeill, Karen Ann. “Building the California Women’s Movement: Architecture, Space, and Gender in the Life and Work of Julia Morgan.” PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2006.

Merrett, Andrea J. “The Professional is Political: The Women’s Movement in American Architecture, 1971–1985.” PhD diss., Columbia University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2020.

Mills, Taylor Jade. “New Women, New Opportunities: The New Women of Chicago’s World’s Fairs, 1893–1934.” MA thesis, University of Central Oklahoma, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2018.

Milwid, Mary Elizabeth. Women in male-dominated professions: A study of bankers, architects, and lawyers. PhD diss. The Wright Institute. 1982.

Moser, Sarah E. “Jane Jacob’s West Village: Then and Now, an Analysis of Neighborhood Change.” MA thesis, Tufts University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2011.

Mullins, Kathleen S. “”Let Women Build Houses”: American Middle-Income, Single-Family Housing in the 1950s and the 1956 Women’s Congress on Housing.” PhD diss., Purdue University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2012.

Myjak-Pycia, Anna Sydonia. “Another Modernism: Home Economics and the Conception of Domestic Space in the US, 1900–1960.” PhD diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2018.

Olive, Nancy Jane. “Elisabeth Coit: Pioneer in Architecture.” MA thesis, Michigan State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1989.

Rault, Jasmine. “Eileen Gray: New Angles on Gender and Sexuality.” PhD diss., McGill University, Canada, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2006.

Reid, Leslie Elaine. “Zaha Hadid: The Female Modernist of the Twenty-First Century.” MA thesis, Southern Methodist University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2009.

Reschenberg, Vera Jaye. “Julia Morgan: Avant-Garde Businesswoman Designing Gendered Space during the Progressive Era.” MA thesis, California State University, Dominguez Hills, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2014.

Richter, Bianca. “Julia Morgan, Architect.” MA thesis, University of Southern California, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2018.

Schneider, Richard. Lowthorpe. Master’s thesis, Rhode Island School of Design, 1988.

Sewell, Jessica Ellen. “Gendering the Spaces of Modernity: Women and Public Space in San Francisco, 1890–1915.” PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2000.

Siefert, Rebecca. “Lauretta Vinciarelli in Context: Transatlantic Dialogues in Architecture, Art, Pedagogy, and Theory, 1968–2007.” PhD diss., City University of New York, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2018.

Stratigakos, Despina Maria. “Skirts and Scaffolding: Women Architects, Gender, and Design in Wilhelmine Germany.” PhD diss., Bryn Mawr College, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1999.

Suominen-Kokkonen, Renja Kristella. “The Fringe of a Profession: Women as Architects in Finland from the 1890s to the 1950s.” F.T., Helsingin Yliopisto, Finland, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1992.

Teng, Jing Ru. “Research on Major Topics of Western Feminist Architectural Theories.” PhD diss., Tsinghua University. People’s Republic of China, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2010.

Thomas, Jennifer Lynn. “The Education of Jane Silverstein Ries at the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture for Women, Groton, Massachusetts, 1928–1932.” MLA thesis, University of Colorado at     Denver, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2009.

Toker, Zeynep. “Women’s Spatial Needs in Housing: Accommodating Gender Ideologies, Use Patterns, and Privacy.” PhD diss., North Carolina State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2004.

Upton, Taylour M. “The Un-Site: By Black Women, for Black Women.” MArch thesis, University of Cincinnati, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2020.

Way, Thaisa. “Women as Force in Landscape Architecture, 1893–1942.” PhD diss., Cornell University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2005.

Westmont, Victoria Camille. “Creating Anthracite Women: The Roles of Architecture and Material Culture in Identity Formation in Pennsylvania Anthracite Company Towns, 1854–1940.” PhD diss., University of Maryland, College Park, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2019.

Woosnam, Margaret Dale. “Journey to Leadership: Women Administrators in Architecture.” PhD diss., Clemson University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2007.

Zweizig, Suzanne M. “Domestic Space and Republican Virtue: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Architecture of America.” PhD diss., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1995.