Joseph Heathcott (The New School, New York) was the Roosevelt Visiting Professor from 19 May to 30 May 2024.
His research and teaching include cities real and imagined, urban spatial production, history and theory of built environments, race, class and urban planning, and the politics of urban development.
Joseph is the author of Global Queens: An Urban Mosaic (Fordham University), and The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design: Global Views from Architectural History (Routledge), as well as co editor with Jonathan Soffer and Rae Zimmerman in Urban Infrastructure: Historical and Social Dimensions of an Interconnected World (University of Pittsburgh Press) and guest editor of Special issue of the Journal of the American Planning Association on the 75th Anniversary of Public Housing.
At the RIAS, he continued working on his current project on “Photography at the End of Progress: Documerica and the Environmental Imaginary in the 1970s.”
On 24 May 2024, Joseph also held a hybrid roundtable with Deborah Cohn, organized in collaboration with the Netherlands American Studies Association (NASA).