Joanna Guldi
Positions
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital History, University of Chicago, 2008-2010. My responsibilities include a graduate seminar that handles new methodologies for the digital sorting and sharing of information, meanwhile using historiography to interrogate changes in the management and use of information technology since Gutenberg.
Fellow, The Commonweal Institute, Palo Alto, 2008-2009. As a fellow of the Commonweal Institute, my writing deals with framing current conversations about technology and infrastructure within the context of a longer story about changing relationships between state and market.
Current Research. My scholarly research meanwhile continues the project of my dissertation, the expansion of the infrastructure state in modern Britain, inquiring how Britain invented the conjoined disciplines of civil engineering and modern bureaucracy and then exported them around the world, with structural consequences for the shape of cities, technology, and markets.
Education
PhD History, University of California, Berkeley, 2002-2008. Dissertation, The Road to Rule: The Expansion of the British Road Network, 1726-1848. Outside fields include Urban History: London, Paris, and Chicago; and Landscape and Architecture in history and theory. Advisor: Professor James Vernon, British History.
Gates Scholar, Historical Geography, Trinity College, Cambridge 2001-2002.
AB Literature, Magna cum Laude, Harvard College, 1996-2000. GPA: 3.83. Phi Beta Kappa. Honors thesis on the garden in 19th-century America as a place where social rules are overturned. Substantial work under the mentorship of John Stilgoe, Orchard Professor of Landscape, and Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Greek Literature.
Selected Awards and Honors
Visiting Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2008
University Fellowship, 2007. Dean’s University Fellowship, 2007-2008. History Departmental fellowship, 2006-2007
Anglo-California Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Center for British Studies, UC Berkeley and Pembroke College, Cambridge, 2005
Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, 2005
Fellow, Yale Center for British Art, 2005
Fellow, Institute for Humane Studies, 2004-2006
John Scholes Prize for Best Essay in Transportation History, 2004
Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellow in Landscape History, 2004
Graduate Division Summer Grant, Berkeley 2003, enabling summer library research at the RIBA archives, Soane Museum, and British Library
Kostof Fellowship in Architectural History at Berkeley, 2002-2003
Rouse-Ball Award for Research at Trinity College, 2002
Gates Fellowship to Cambridge, 2001, awarded for leadership and comparable to the Rhodes at Oxford
Harvard’s three-year Eben Fiske Scholarship at Trinity College, 2001
Phi Beta Kappa, iota chapter, Harvard College, 2000
Harvard College Scholarship for academic achievement, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999-2000
Radcliffe Scholarship for academic achievement, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999-2000
Detur Prize at Harvard (awarded to top 5% of class upon first year), 1996-1997
Selected Publications
"The Surprising Death of the Public Intellectual and a Manifesto for Its Restoration," Absent 3 (Fall 2008)
"The Invisible City: How Liberal Britain Invented Eminent Domain and Pioneered the Perception of the Modern City, 1810-1833," (under review).
"Learning Not to Talk to Strangers: Interactions in the Public Street, 1800-1840," (under review).
“The Tangible Shape of the Nation: Maps of the Road Network, 1726-1848,” in Janet Myers and Diedre McMahon, eds.,Material Possessions: The Objects and Textures of Everyday Life in Imperial Britain (forthcoming)
Working Paper, “The Origins of Expert Rule: British Liberalism, the Engineer, and the Local Poor, 1808-1850,” 2007 Breslauer Graduate Student Symposium, UC Berkeley. Breslauer Symposium
“The Uses of Planning and the Decay of Strategy,” Contemporary Security Policy, 27:2 (April 2006), pp 239-286. (lead article) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/csp/2006/00000027/00000002/art00001?crawler=true
“Chaos Creation and Crowd Control: Models of riot regulation, 1700 to 2005,” Critical Planning 12 (2005) http://www.spa.ucla.edu/critplan/past/volume012/05_Guldi.pdf
“Beyond Belief: Holy Week in France,” Counterpunch (March 25, 2005) http://www.counterpunch.org/guldi03252005.html
“The Beast of History is In,” Counterpunch (Nov. 4, 2004) http://www.counterpunch.org/guldi11052004.html
Selected Presentations
"Government, Connectivity, and Citizenship: How Britain Pioneered the Shape of Modern Cities, 1808-1825," North American Conference on British Studies, Cleveland, Ohio (October 4, 2008)“The Fellowship of Travelers: Migrant Communities on Britain’s Roads, 1740-1850,” California World History Association, Fullerton, California (November 11-12, 2007).
“Scottish Technocrats, the Highway Commission, and Postcolonial Nationalism: The Administrative origins of the Transport Revolution, 1810-1840,” Western Conference on British Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico (November 1-3, 2007)
“The Transport Revolution, Reimagined: Visual technology, governmentality, and mobility on Britain’s Roads, 1740-1850,” Fifth Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic & Mobility, Helmond, the Netherlands (October 25-28, 2007)
“Paving the Way to Nationhood: Parliament and the British Interkingdom Highway System,” Midwest Conference on British Studies at Wright State University , Dayton, Ohio (October 28, 2007).
“Learning Not to Talk to Strangers: Interactions in London’s Public Streets, 1810-1840” Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference (RMIHC), Boulder, Colorado (September 7-8, 2007).
“The Origins of Expert Rule: British Liberalism, the Engineer, and the Local Poor, 1808-1850,” Breslauer Graduate Student Symposium, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California (March 2007).
“The Expansion of the British Road Network, 1740-1850,” Mellon Graduate Student Conference at the National Association for British Studies, Boston, Massachusetts (November 2006).
“Connecting the Social Body: The Expansion of the British Road Network,” Conference on Culture and Society, the Center for British Studies, Berkeley, California (Jan. 28-29, 2005).
“Regulating Riot: Architecture and Terrorism at the End of the Coffee-house,” CRASSH: Graduate Student Conference on Urban Conflict, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (March 2004).
“Looming Conflict: London Street Scenes and Satire, 1780-1810,” Meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (January 2003)
Selected Teaching Experience
Spring 2007 Graduate Student Instructor for Leon Litwack, History 7b, American History, 1865-2000
2004-2005 various readerships in American History
2003-2004 Graduate Student Instructor for Stephen Tobriner, Architecture History to 1300 (Arch 170). Graduate Student
2002-2003 Graduate Student Instructor for Paul Groth, The History of
the Built Environment in America, 1600-1900 and 1900-the present (ED169)
Selected Professional Activities
Coordinator, working group for dissertation writers in History (2007-2008)
Organizer and speaker, Conference on Religion, History, and Social Values, October 13-15, 2005 - , National Cathedral, Washington, DC.
Coordinator for reading group on “Spatial Practice” at the Townsend Center for the Humanities (2003-2004)
Graduate Student Consultant for the formation of Cambridge’s Centre for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) (2001-2002)
Editor-in-Chief and founder, TOPIC Magazine (2001-2002) TOPIC is a new magazine of incisive writing on trends, fashion, and social analysis, now publishing in New York to a circulation of 25,000.
Languages
French (fluent), German, Latin, Ancient Greek(reading)