Name:	Kelly Quinn
Title:	Assistant Professor
Department:	American Studies
Organization:	Miami University
Phone:	(513) 529-9287
Fax:	(513) 529-1890
Email:	quinnk [a] muohio.edu
Address:	120 MacMillan Hall Oxford, OH 45056

Brief Biography:
Kelly Quinn is an assistant professor of American Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her scholarship and teaching examine the dynamic relationship between people and places. Her dissertation, Making Modern Homes, documents the early architectural and social history of a housing program built by and for African Americans in Washington D.C. as part of the New Deal; in 2007, it garnered the John Reps Prize for Best Dissertation in American Planning History from the Society for American City Regional and Planning History. Quinn enlists archival research and traditional scholarship to produce community-based projects. These popular education programs include storytelling, performance pieces, and temporary installations on playgrounds in public housing, on sidewalks in gentrifying neighborhoods, in laundromats, at a farmers' markets in a small town, and in a union hall in a postindustrial city. She served as the Sojourner Truth Visiting Faculty Lecturer at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in Urban + Regional Planning and at the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan where she won two teaching awards. While at Michigan, she served on the steering committee of the Arts of Citizenship, a cross-campus collaboration devoted to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design. Quinn is keenly interested in how advanced graduate students and junior faculty incorporate public scholarship into their research, teaching, and service. She earned the Ph.D. at University of Maryland in American Studies and Certificates in Historic Preservation and Women's Studies where she taught African American Studies as a teaching assistant and instructor. She earned an A.B. at Trinity College in Washington, D.C.

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