LUCINDA KAUKAS HAVENHAND


Associate Professor; Program Coordinator

School of Art and Design
Interior Design

lkhavenh@syr.edu


Education:
Ph.D. Virginia Commonwealth University

Office: Smith Hall Rm.
Telephone: 315-443-2455

Biography:

Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand is a designer, design historian, and theorist whose research considers the larger connections between design and culture. Her work focuses on issues of gender and identity as well as design's role as an empathetic and transformative agent in today's society.

Education:

Ph.D., Art History - 20th Century Design and Theory
M. Phil., Interdisciplinary Humanities - Design, Theory, Women's Studies
B.F.A., Interior Design

Recent Publications:

"The Dream House and Constructions of Masculinity in 1940's American Literature." Raizman, David and Carma Gorman, eds. Literature, Audiences, and Objects: Alternative Narratives in the History of Design, 2007

“American Abstract Art and the Interior Design of Ray and Charles Eames” Journal of Interior Design, 2006

Recent Papers:

"Sex, Stereotypes and 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy:' Media and the Identity Quandaries of the Beginning Design Student." National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. San Antonio, 2005
 
“No Place like Home: American Nationalism and Postwar Interior Design.” Design History Society, London, 2005