Despina Stratigakos
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Despina Stratigakos (born 1963) is a Canadian-born architectural historian, writer, former vice provost, and SUNY Distinguished Professor[1] of architecture at the University at Buffalo.[2]
Stratigakos was born in Montreal, Quebec to Greek immigrants,[3] and received her undergraduate education from the University of Toronto and her Master of Arts from the University of California Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. She taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo.
Academic career
From 2018 to 2022, Stratigakos served as the University at Buffalo's Vice Provost of Inclusive Excellence.[4] Stratigakos previously served as a Director of the Society of Architectural Historians, an Advisor of the International Archive of Women in Architecture at Virginia Tech, a Trustee of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, and Deputy Director of the Gender Institute at the University at Buffalo.[5][6]
She also participated on Buffalo's municipal Diversity in Architecture task force and was a founding member of the Architecture and Design Academy, an initiative of the Buffalo Public Schools to encourage design literacy and academic excellence. In 2016–17, Stratigakos was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.[7]
