Gabrielle Esperdy is an architectural and urban historian whose work examines intersections of modernism and consumerism in metropolitan landscapes. Her books include American Autopia and Modernizing Main Street, and she has published widely on topics including queer theory and urbanism, intersections of technology and historiography in the age of big data, and the need for racial reckoning in architecture’s histories. Esperdy is editor-in-chief of SAH Archipedia and the award-winning Buildings of the United States book series. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation, and the New Jersey Historical Commission, among others. She is a columnist for Places and appears regularly on broadcast and web series and podcasts, including Ten that Changed America and 99% Invisible. She was a Public Scholar in the Humanities for the State of New Jersey and her current projects include 100 short essays about significant buildings and sites across the Garden State and a book about NJ’s horizontal urban density. Esperdy was educated at Smith College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is currently Professor and Dean of the Hillier College of Architecture and Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where she has taught since 2001.