Leslie Lodwick

Leslie Lodwick is a PhD Candidate in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the built environments of education in histories of nineteenth and twentieth-century architecture and planning, as well as the visual culture and design of childhood, play, and adolescence. She holds an MSEd in urban education from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in art and art history. Her forthcoming dissertation project focuses on a twentieth-century California school-building project and relationships to race, technology, and urban planning. She is a recipient of the Social Science Research Council Dissertation Development Fellowship and served on the Graduate Student Advisory Committee with the Society of Architectural Historians. Her book chapter, “Backwards to Wayward,” was published as part of the collection 'Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality,' edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt and published by Columbia University’s Books on Architecture and the City. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Drexel University and Rutgers University and is a former public school educator.