Professor Rebecca Houze is a specialist in the history of design 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. Professor Houze is author of Textiles, Fashion, and Design Reform in Austria-Hungary Before the First World War: Principles of Dress (Ashgate, 2015), and New Mythologies in Design and Culture: Reading Signs and Symbols in the Visual Landscape (Bloomsbury, 2016). She has published her work in Design Issues, Fashion Theory, and Journal of Design History, for which she also serves on the Editorial Board. She is co-editor of The Design History Reader (Berg, 2010) with Grace Lees-Maffei. Her current research investigates design history and cultural heritage in the landscape and built environment of world’s fairs and national parks in Europe and North America at the turn of the twentieth century.

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