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Phil
Gruen 509-335-2309 Ph.D. in Architecture, University of California, Berkeley (2004) Phil Gruen has been with the faculty since the Fall of 2003, first as a visiting assistant professor and, since the Fall of 2004, as an assistant professor. He teaches the world architectural history sequence at WSU (Architecture 220 and 324), a course on Modern History and Theory (Architecture 309), and has taught seminars in American architecture and urbanism (Spring 2005) and Architecture, Tourism, and Travel (Spring 2007 and 2008). Gruen’s research interests are in the area of American architecture and urbanism. His current research regards the interaction between tourists and the built environment in American cities, both past and present. His doctoral dissertation, entitled “Manifest Destinations: Tourists in the Urban American West, 1870-1893,” explores the push-and-pull between urban presentation and the tourist encounter in San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, and Chicago in the late nineteenth century – a period of heightened urbanization and accelerated modernity. He is currently revising this manuscript for publication, under contract with the University of Oklahoma Press. Gruen has published aspects of this manuscript in a Routledge anthology (2001) and the Journal of the West (2002), and has presented work at a number of conferences, including the Society of Architectural Historians, the College Art Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Western History Association, the Urban History Association, the Vernacular Architecture Forum, the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, and the Environmental Design Research Association. Locally, Gruen serves on the planning commission for the city of Pullman, and is chair of the Historic Preservation Committee at WSU. He is a native of Berkeley, California.
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