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Title
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Associate Professor
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Department
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Architecture
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Address
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219 W. Sibley Hall
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Phone
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(607) 254-8771
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Email
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dml34@cornell.edu
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Medina Lasansky has lectured widely and published extensively on the relationship between politics, popular culture, and the built environment. Her 2004 book The Renaissance Perfected: Architecture, Spectacle, and Tourism in Fascist Italy (Penn State University Press) won the Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award in 2005 and was runner up for both the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, given by the College Art Association for "an especially distinguished book in the history of art" and the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award. Her coedited volume, Architecture and Tourism. Perception, Performance, and Place (Berg, 2004) was translated into Spanish in 2006. Her essay on San Gimignano won the 2005 Founders' Award from the Society of Architectural Historians for the best article written by a junior scholar to appear in the previous two years in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Courses (selected)
- Arch 6800 Architectural Historiography
- Arch 6816 Architourism: East Meets West
- Arch 6819 Sensational Space-architecture and the 7 senses
- Arch 6816 Designing Consumption Habits in 20th-century Italy. Fashion + food + film + space + place (Fall 2009)
Publications (selected)
- “Body Elision: Acting out the Passion at the Italian (Sacri Monti)” (in The Body in Early Modern Europe, edited by Julia L. Hairston and Walter Stephens (2010)
- "Political Allegories: Reshaping Siena's Palio, and Patron Saint During the Fascist Regime," in Cristelle Baskins and Lisa Rosenthal, eds., Visual Allegory in Early Modern Culture (2007)
- "Urban Editing, Historic Preservation, and Political Rhetoric: The Fascist Redesign of San Gimignano," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 63, no. 3 (September 2004)
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (selected)
- Provost’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship (2005)
- Visiting Scholar, Study Centre, Canadian Centre for Architecture (2004)
- Faculty Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University (2003–04)
- Research Fellow, the Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach (2003)
- Research Fellow, Centro Interuniversitario di Studi Americani ed Euro-americani, Studi Politici, Universita di Torino (2003)
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