User:Bnasa829/Mabel O. Wilson

Mabel O. Wilson (born 1963) is an architect, designer, and scholar. Her research and writing explore visual culture in contemporary art, film, and new media; the social production of space; and politics and cultural memory in black America. Wilson is currently a professor at Columbia University within the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, teaching courses in architectural design, history, and theory since 2007. Also at Columbia, she is the Associate Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) and, alongside Mario Gooden, is the co-director of Global Africa Lab (GAL). Wilson is a founding member of [http://whobuilds.org/ Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?)]—a project that examines "the links between labor, architecture and the global networks that form around building buildings."

Education
Wilson received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture at the University of Virginia in 1985, a Master's of Architecture at Columbia University in 1991, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University in 2007.

Books

 * Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (Co-Editor with Irene Cheng and Charles L. Davis II), forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. (ISBN 978-0-822-94605-2)
 * Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, 2016. (ISBN 978-1-588-34569-1)
 * Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums, University of California Press, 2012. (ISBN 978-0-520-26842-5)

Awards and Honors

 * 2019: American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture
 * 2019: Educator/Mentor honor from Architectural Record’s Women in Architecture Design Leadership Program
 * 2015–16: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts (CASVA)
 * 2011: United States Artists Ford Fellow in Architecture and Design