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Katherine Kaford, PhD

Professor of Art History
Assistant Dean, College of Architecture, Visual Arts and Design
Associate Dean for Educational Effectiveness, CAVAD

Office Phone: (951) 552-8816
E-mail: kkaford@calbaptist.edu
Office Location: James Building, Room 359
Office Hours: by appointment

Degree Major Emphasis Institution Year
PhD History of Art and Architecture University of California, Santa Barbara 2013
M.A. History of Art and Architecture University of California, Santa Barbara 2008
B.A. Architecture and French Cultural Studies Wellesley College 2004
  • Courses Taught

    The History of Architecture: Ancient - Renaissance
    The History of Architecture: Renaissance - Contemporary
    The History of Art: Ancient to Renaissance
    The History of Art: Renaissance - Contemporary
    History of Modern Art
    Art Appreciation
    Southern Californian Modernism
    History of Architecture and Urbanism Abroad
    History of Contemporary Art
    Women in the Arts

    Graduate Seminars:
    Historic Preservation
    American Dream: Suburbia and Home

  • Academic Areas & Scholarly Interests

    20th century modernist architecture, domesticity and the interior, collecting, display and consumption

  • Teaching Experience at Institutions Other than CBU

    California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Research, Presentations, & Publications

    Articles and Essays:

    “Katherine Morrow Ford: Designs for Living,” in Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture, ed. Anna Sokolina, UK: Routledge (forthcoming, 2021)

    “Lois Davidson Gottlieb: ‘A Woman Fellow’,” in Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture, ed. Anna Sokolina, UK: Routledge (forthcoming, 2021)

    “Eames House/Case Study House #8,” in Buildings of California, ed. Emily Bills, and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press (2017)

    “Stahl House/Case Study House #22,” in Buildings of California, ed. Emily Bills, and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press (2017)

    “Miles C. Bates House, Palm Desert,” in Walter S. White: Inventions in Mid-Century Architecture, by Volker M. Welter, Santa Barbara, CA: Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara (2015)

    “The Carefree Californian: ‘Cliff May Homes,’ 1952-1958,” in Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch. New York: Rizzoli (2012)

    CONFERENCE PAPERS and INVITED LECTURES

    “Aesthetical Insights to Leadership: Architecture, Art, Literature, and Music,” Dr. Paul and Annie Kienel Leadership Institute, California Baptist University, February, 2019

    “Spectacle and Display: Kitchen Design in Glass Houses,” PCA, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2018

    “From California Style to Lifestyle: Cliff May and the Ranch House,” SAH, Pasadena, California, April 2016

    “Cliff May and the California Home,” Curator’s Walk, CBU Gallery, Riverside, California, June 2015

    “Plush to Glass and Other Anti-Dust Catchers,” SECAC, Sarasota, Florida, November 2014

    “Katherine Morrow Ford: Finding the Feminine in Modern Architecture,” SECAC, Greensboro, North Carolina, October 2013

    “California’s Architectural Frontier 1: Concept, Greek and Gothic Revival Buildings,” Revival Styles in Southern Californian Architecture, Spring 2013

    “Icon and Anonymity: What is Californian Architectural History?” discussion chair, UC Santa Barbara, May 2012

  • Church Membership & Activities

    First Lutheran, Lake Elsinore

  • Community Service & Involvement

    Girl Scout Troop Leader

  • Interests & Hobbies

    Reading
    Cooking
    Playing with my children
    Waterskiing
    Gardening

  • Personal Philosophy

    Proverbs 31:10-31 (A Wife of Noble Character)