Dolores Hayden

Dolores Hayden is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and Professor of American Studies. She is an urban historian and architect, president of the Urban History Association, and the author of many books about the history of the built environment in the United States. Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000 (2003) and A Field Guide to Sprawl (2004) are the most recent. Her earlier books include The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities (1981); and The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History(1995). Her graduate courses include seminars on the history of cities and suburbs, research methods on the built environment, and gender and space. Hayden is also a widely published poet whose collection, Nymph, Dun, and Spinner, is forthcoming in fall 2010. Her web site is www.DoloresHayden.com. In fall 2010 she is offering a graduate seminar on the history of suburbs as well as an undergraduate seminar, "Poets' Landscapes." ( She is on leave in spring 2011.)