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Barbara Miller Lane Receives
Mellon Emeritus Fellowship
Barbara Miller Lane, Emeritus
Professor in the Humanities and McBride Professor of
History of Art and Cities at Bryn
Mawr College, has been awarded a Mellon Foundation Emeritus
Fellowship to work on "American tract houses of the
1950s and 1960s".
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Emeritus Fellowships
provide research support for "outstanding" retired
scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences,
together with generous subventions to the sponsoring
institutions. In this second year of the Foundation's
program, 14 fellowships were awarded to scholars at colleges
and universities across the country.
Lane, a graduate of the University of Chicago and Barnard
College, and a PhD in history from Harvard University,
joined the Bryn Mawr faculty in 1962. The recipient of
more than a dozen major grants and fellowships throughout
her career, Lane has been a visiting professor at the
Columbia University School of Architecture, a fellow
at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in
Washington DC, a fellow at the Institute for Advanced
Study, Berlin, and a member of the "City Forum",
an advisory group on planning Berlin after German unification.
She is the author of the classic work on German architecture
and planning in the early twentieth century. The emphases
of her other publications have ranged from the role of
public buildings in shaping the cityscape, to the influence
of nationalism on European architecture, to the evolution
of modern housing types.
In 1971, Lane founded the Growth and Structure of Cities
Program at Bryn Mawr. The Cities Program was the first
undergraduate major in the country to combine city planning,
art and architecture, history, political science, anthropology,
economics, sociology and geology. Now in its 35th year,
the program continues to be unique in its interdisciplinary,
multicultural approach.
At the time of her retirement, Lane's students established
a lecture series in her honor, as "a forum for innovative
research on the relationship among history, culture,
architecture and urban form."
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