Lawrence Davis is an Associate Professor of Architecture, Undergraduate Chair of the School of Architecture, and former Director of the SU Florence Architecture Program, Syracuse University. His research and teaching are focused on the urban periphery, most recently concentrating on the social and related spatial transformation of ethnoburbs in the U.S. His published articles include “The Aesthetics of US: new residents in old cities,” “Old Things for New Eyes,” "Philip Johnson’s Crystal Cathedral and the Rhetoric of its Free-Form Polyhedron Structure," in Beyond the Cube: The Architecture of Space Frames and Polyhedra. Journal articles include work on Joze Plecnik in the Architect’s Bulletin, and his own design work in the Journal of Architectural Education, Architext, and Architettura. Davis has exhibited and lectured in Europe, Mexico and the U.S. He is also a special editorial contributor to the Syracuse Post-Standard.
Elizabeth Kamell is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Syracuse University. Prof. Kamell’s research on urban housing examines the relationship of social, political, and formal aspects of dwelling. She was Director of the Community Design Center at Syracuse University from 2000 to 2007. The work of the CDC focused on issues of urban design and architecture in Syracuse, including housing and commercial development, the rehabilitation of landmark buildings, and proposals for precinct redevelopment of public housing in one of the most economically challenged areas in the U.S. Her work on the New York State Urban Development Corporation is published as A Pocket Guide to Housing of the UDC.
City Scripts is supported by the Kresge Foundation, American Cities Program, Syracuse University, and the School of Architecture, Syracuse University.
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Carol Faulkner is a Professor of History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She studies the history of social movements in the United States and is an expert in the struggles for racial and sexual equality that flourished in central New York during the mid-nineteenth century. She is the author of Lucretia Mott Speaks: Abolition and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America (2011) and Unfaithful: Love, Adultery, and Marriage Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (2019), among other publications, and she co-edits the Gender and Race in American History series at the University of Rochester Press.
Grant Reeher is Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. His research interests are in American politics and political theory, with an emphasis on legislative politics, democratic representation, and active citizenship. His published work includes the books The Trusted Leader, First Person Political, and Click on Democracy. He is a regular political commentator for regional, national, and international news media, and is the creator, host, and producer of the weekly program “The Campbell Conversations,” on WRVO Public Media, a regional NPR affiliate.