Barbara Penner is Professor in Architectural Humanities at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

Barbara has authored and co-edited numerous books on gender, space, and architecture, among others Bathroom (2013), Newlyweds on tour: Honeymooning in nineteenth-century America (2009), Ladies and gents: Public toilets and gender (2009), and Gender space architecture: An interdisciplinary introduction (1999). Her focus is presently on the work of the American houser, Catherine Bauer Wurster, and she wrote the foreword to the recently reissued edition of Modern Housing (University of Minnesota Press, 2020).

Despina Stratigakos currently serves as the University at Buffalo’s Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence.

Her research explores how power and ideology function in architecture, whether in the creation of domestic spaces or of world empires. She is the author of Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway (2020), Where Are the Women Architects? (2016), Hitler at Home (2015), and A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City (2008), which won the German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize and the Milka Bliznakov Prize. Despina is also the editor of A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury 2020).