Resume - School of Architecture

Michael Rabens, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Courses Taught (Two academic years prior to current visit):
2015: Spring: ARCH 2003, 3083, 3173/ Fall: ARCH 2003, 2203
2016: Spring: ARCH 2003, 3083/ Fall: ARCH 2203, 4173/ Summer: Europe
Educational Credentials:
Ph.D. in the History of Art, Princeton University, 1992
Master of Fine Arts, Princeton University, 1987
Master of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984
Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982
Teaching Experience:
On this faculty: 11 years
Other related experience: 14 years of teaching experience at 8 universities including 7 years at the University
of Florida
Licenses/Registration: none
Selected Publications and Recent Research:
“American Architecture in the Roaring Twenties,” to be given at the Stillwater Public Library’s “Two Books,
One Community” Lecture Series, Sheerar Museum, Stillwater, Oklahoma, April 16, 2016.
"To Find the Right Style: Byzantine Revival Synagogues in America," Investigating and Writing Architectural
History: Subjects, Methodologies and Frontiers: Papers from the Third EAHN International Meeting, ed.
Michela Rosso, Turin, Italy, 2014, pp. 1010-1018.
“A Tale of Two Cities: Courtyard Apartments in Chicago and Detroit,” given at the Annual Conference of the
Society of Architectural Historians, Detroit, Michigan, April 19, 2012.
“American Synagogue Design: The First 250 Years,” Paper presented at the University of Oklahoma
(Norman, Oklahoma), Judaic Studies Program, April 7, 2010.
“A Preliminary Survey of the Chicago Courtyard Apartment Building: The North and West Sides,” Paper
presented at the College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February 11, 2010.
“La fausse généalogie des Mansart” (in French), Actes du Colloque International“Mansart et Compagnie:
François Mansart et l’Architecture Classique Française,” ed. Claude Mignot, Les Cahiers de Maisons
[Maisons-Laffitte, France], nos. 27-28, December 1999, pp. 32-37.
“Baroque Visions of the Temple of Jerusalem,” Oz (Journal of the College of Architecture and Design,
Kansas State University), vol. 17, 1995, pp. 38-45.
Publications on the work of Jules Hardouin-Mansart and on Chicago apartment building design, in
preparation.
Professional Memberships:
European Architectural History Network
Society of Architectural Historians
College Art Association
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Honors and Awards:
Faculty Honoree, University of Florida, 2001
Teaching Productivity Award, University of Florida 1999
Mellon Fellowship, Princeton University, Fall 1991
Fulbright Fellowship, Paris, France, 1987-1988
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Research Grant, 1987
Princeton University Fellowship, 1984-1987, 1990-1991
Francis J. Plym Graduate Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982- 1983