Rebecca Houze
Associate Professor Rebecca Houze is a specialist in the history of design, architecture, and the decorative arts. She received her B.A. from the University of Washington (1993) and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1994, 2000). Her research centers on the relationship between art, industry, collection, and display in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 2004 she received a Fulbright Joint Austrian-Hungarian Research Award for her work on Central European design history.
Professor Houze has published in Studies in the Decorative Arts, Journal of Design History, Design Issues, Fashion Theory, Textile, and Centropa and is co-editor of The Design History Reader (Oxford: Berg, 2010). Her most recent articles explore the exhibitions of Austrian and Hungarian needlework at the world’s fairs. She is currently at work on a book, Principles of Dress: Textiles, Fashion, and Modern Design in Austria-Hungary, 1867-1918.
In addition to her regular courses in the history of modern art, architecture and design, Professor Houze has taught special topics and graduate seminar courses entitled, Vienna 1900: Art and Culture at the Fin-de-Siècle, Fashion, Modernism, and Modernity, and What is Design History? She has also recently developed an undergraduate seminar for the NIU Honors program, National Internationalism: The World’s Fair.
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