Daphne Spain

BA, North Carolina (1972);
MA, Massachusetts (1974);
PhD, Massachusetts (1976).

James M. Page Professor

Professor Daphne Spain is James M. Page Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. Her scholarship addresses the relationship between the built environment and social structure, with an emphasis on gender. A long-term research interest is the way in which groups of women change the urban environment. She is currently working on a project titled ?In the Spirit of Jane Addams: Moral Crusades and the American City?, in which she argues that social movements shaped by moral values have an impact on urban form separate from the political economy.

Ms. Spain has published articles in the leading journals in the planning and urban fields. Her books include Gendered Spaces (UNC Press, 1992) and Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage and Employment among American Women (with Suzanne Bianchi, Russell Sage Foundation, 1996). Her most recent book, How Women Saved the City (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), explores the importance of redemptive places built by women volunteers at the turn of the 20th century.

Professor Spain has received research grants from the Russell Sage Foundation and The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Her work has been featured on the PBS documentary ?The First Measured Century?, and on the Jim Lehrer NewsHour. Ms. Spain is a member of the Society for American Regional and Planning History Governing Board, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Journal of Urban Affairs.