Lithuanian Cultural Garden in Summer 2009
As an urban historian, my research explores how people have constructed–physically and metaphorically–the urban environment in which they live. I am completing a book manuscript in which I explore how urban memorials and public art reveal the changing nature of cities and community identity in the twentieth century, especially through the lens of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens. I am also researching air racing, exploring how Americans constructed identity, risk, and spectacle in the first half of the twentieth century.
