Dr. Leslie McShane Lodwick is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, PA, and was most recently a Lecturer at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She completed a Ph.D. in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where her dissertation and research focused on architectural histories of schooling and education.

Broadly, Dr. McShane Lodwick’s research focuses on the built environments of education in histories of nineteenth and twentieth-century architecture, as well as the visual culture and design of childhood, play, and adolescence. She maintains secondary research interests in histories and theories of photography, social practice, and community-based art movements. She holds an MS.Ed. in urban education from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in art and art history.

She is a recipient of the Social Science Research Council Dissertation Development fellowship and served on the Graduate Student Advisory Committee with the Society of Architectural Historians. Her book chapter, “Backwards to Wayward,” was published as part Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality, edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt and published by Columbia University’s Books on Architecture and the City.

She is a former public school educator and lives in Philadelphia with her family.