Expanding Agency: Women, Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture

Project Information

Expanding Agency

Grant agreement ID: 101019419

DOI

10.3030/101019419

EC signature date 5 May 2021

Start date 1 January 2022

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 082 906,00

EU contribution

€ 2 082 906,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN
Ireland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (7)

A Moving Picture? The Isotype Institute and Women’s Movements through Austria, Britain, and Nigeria, 1925–1960

Author(s): Alborz Dianat
Published in: Journal Of Design History, 2026, Page(s) epag017, ISSN 0952-4649
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jdh/epag017

Black Lives Matters to Architecture: A View from Europe

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Published in: Architectural Histories, Volume 10, Issue 10, 2022, ISSN 2050-5833
Publisher: Open Library of the Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/ah.8295

Lin Huiyin, House Beautiful, and women’s place in architectural culture in the United States in the 1920s

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Published in: Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism, Issue 1, 2024, Page(s) 100003, ISSN 2950-2675
Publisher: KeAi Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.pau.2024.100003

The Outsider as insider

Author(s): Kathleen James Chakraborty
Published in: arq.urb, Issue 35, 2022, Page(s) 5-19, ISSN 1984-5766
Publisher: Universidade Sao Judas Tadeu
DOI: 10.37916/arq.urb.vi35.624

Objects and Media of the Home

Author(s): Gregorio Astengo, Rebecca Carrai, Joana Albernaz Delgado, Alborz Dianat, Amina Kaskar, Nokubekezela Mchunu, Yosuke Nakamoto, Jesse O'Neill, Savia Palate, Sezin Sarica, Zhengfeng Wang, Sarah Wheat Ordu
Published in: Architectural Histories, Issue 14, 2026, Page(s) 8-9, ISSN 2050-5833
Publisher: Open Library of the Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/ah.18874

Expanding Agency. Women, Race and the Dissemination of Modern Architecture

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Published in: ZARCH, Issue 18, 2022, Page(s) 16-29, ISSN 2341-0531
Publisher: Universidad de Zaragoza
DOI: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2022186967

Habit and hard hat: the unconventional practice of Sister Nesta Fitzgerald-Lombard at St Leonards Mayfield, 1954–1994

Author(s): Alborz Dianat
Published in: The Journal of Architecture, Issue 30, 2026, Page(s) 1113-1145, ISSN 1360-2365
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2025.2594104

Monographic books (2)

Minding Her Business

Author(s): Alborz Dianat (Editor), Kathleen James-Chakraborty (Editor)
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Leuven University Press
DOI: 10.11116/9789461667397

The Belgian Friendship Building

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Katherine M. Kuenzli, Bryan Clark Green
Published in: 2025
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
DOI: 10.2307/jj.29357388

Other (5)

Strange Bedfellows: How the Pavilion of a Colonial Power came to Serve as a Beacon of the Civil Rights Movement

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Katherine M. Kuenzli, and Bryan Clark Green
Published in: PLATFORM, 2026
Publisher: PLATFORM

Belgium’s pavilion at Expo 1939 New York and its second life in Richmond, Virginia

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Katherine M. Kuenzli, and Bryan Clark Green.
Published in: Bulletin of the Bureau International des Expositions, Issue Bulletin 2026 Architecture in motion: the second life of Expo pavilions, 2026
Publisher: Bureau International des Expositions (BIE)

Chloethiel Woodard Smith

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Published in: Washington History, Issue Vol.35 no.2, 2023, Page(s) 8-21
Publisher: DC History Center

“Plans Have Been Sent to 61 Broadway”: The General Education Board’s Architectural Vision for Black Education

Author(s): George Francis-Kelly
Published in: Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports, 2026
Publisher: Rockefeller Archive Center

A Career Around Architecture

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Published in: Come As You Are!, 2023, Page(s) 80-83
Publisher: Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University

Book chapters (6)

Ethel Madison Bailey Furman

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Published in: Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture, 2025, Page(s) 318-328
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003266044-27

Expanding Agency

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Published in: Women and Architectural History, 2024, Page(s) 152-168, ISBN 9781003224662
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003224662-13

Eric Mendelsohn and B’nai Amoona

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Published in: Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s-1970s, 2025, Page(s) 39-55
Publisher: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Architecture

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Published in: Art History Now, 2025, Page(s) 31-44
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003563693-4

New states and old statues: Ireland’s monuments in an international context

Author(s): Kathleen James Chakraborty
Published in: Ireland: The Matter of Monuments, 2024
Publisher: University of Liverpool Press

Making Global History: Henry van der Velde, Art Nouveau in Belgium and in its relation to the Congo

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Published in: Bauhaus & Beyond: A Global, Postcolonial Perspective, 2023
Publisher: Lucia Verlag

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Rooms of their Own: Displaying Architecture by Women in Copenhagen

Author(s): Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Published in: Architectural Histories, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 2050-5833
Publisher: Open Library Of Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/ah.10074