Mabel O. Wilson

Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and Chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University

Mabel O. Wilson is the Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and Chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. With her practice, Studio &, she was a member of the design team for the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia. The Venice Architecture Biennale, SFMOMA, and the Art Institute of Chicago have exhibited her works. Her books include Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums and the co-edited volume Race and Modern Architecture. For the Museum of Modern Art, she was co-curator of Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America (2021). 

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