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Dr. Paula R. Lupkin

Associate Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Art History

Email: Paula.Lupkin@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1997
    Major: History of Art
    Specialization: Architectural History
    Dissertation: "YMCA Architecture: Building Character in the American City, 1869-1929"
  • AB, Bryn Mawr College, 1989
    Major: Growth and Structure of Cities
    Specialization: History of Art, minor
    Dissertation: "C.F.A. Voysey: Modern Architecture Revisited"

Professional Positions

    Academic - Post-Secondary

  • Associate Professor, History of Art and Design, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2019 - Present).
  • Assistant Professor, History of Art and Design, University of North Texas. University of North Texas. (2012 - 2019).
  • Affiliated Faculty, American Culture Studies Program, Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University in St. Louis. (2000 - 2010).
  • Affiliated Faculty, History of Art Department, Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University in St. Louis. (2007 - 2009).
  • Assistant Professor of Architectural History, School of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University in St. Louis. (2000 - 2009).
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Architectural History, School of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University in St. Louis. (1999 - 2000).
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago. University of Illinois, Chicago. (1999 - 1999).
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Colorado College. Colorado College. (1998 - 1998).
  • Adjunct Instructor of Architectural History, Illinois Institute of Technology. Illinois Institute of Technology. (1997 - 1998).
  • Visiting Instructor of Art History, Denison University. Denison University. (1996 - 1997).

Professional Memberships

  • Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians. (November 2019 - Present).
  • Society for American City and Regional Planning History. (2009 - Present).
  • Vernacular Architecture Forum. (2008 - Present).
  • Society of Architectural Historians. (1994 - Present).
  • College Art Association. (1993 - Present).

Development Activities

  • Faculty Development Leave, "Progress toward Promotion: Completing “The Great Southwest” and Proposing “The Lager Landscape", University of North Texas. Denton,TX,United States of America. (August 2021 - December 2022).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • AEAH 4614 - Art and Business, 1 course.
  • AEAH 4801 - Topics in Art History, 3 courses.
  • AEAH 4812 - Modernism and the Visual Arts 1890 1945, 1 course.
  • AEAH 4815 - History of Interiors and Furniture II, 8 courses.
  • AEAH 4841 - History of Interiors and Furniture I, 7 courses.
  • AEAH 4848 - Art History Senior Seminar, 3 courses.
  • AEAH 5801 - Topics in Art History, 12 courses.
  • AEAH 5813 - Seminar in Twentieth and Twenty First Century Art, 2 courses.
  • AEAH 5845 - Seminar in the History of Architecture and Design, 1 course.
  • AEAH 5849 - Art History Research Project, 3 courses.
  • ART 1301 - Honors Art Appreciation, 7 courses.
  • ART 5900 - Special Problems, 11 courses.
  • ARTH 4815 - 20th Century Interiors, 3 courses.
  • ARTH 4841 - Historic Interiors: Design and Experience, 3 courses.
  • ARTH 4845 - Topics in the History of Architecture and/or Design, 3 courses.
  • ARTH 5801 - Topics in Art History, 3 courses.
  • ARTH 5817 - Seminar in American Art, 1 course.
  • ARTH 5849 - Art History Research Project, 1 course.

Directed Student Learning

  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, ""The Conversation Pit"," Art Education and Art History. (December 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, ""The Tiffany Chapel"," Art History. (December 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, ""Pompeiian Homes and Movement Modeling"," Art History. (November 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Co-Chair, "Contemporary Queer Indigenous artists' (from the U.S. and Canada) portrait photography of identity as an intersectional critique of museum housing and education practices," Art History. (January 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member (Brittni Geissler), "The Interactive Image of Oil in the Future Imaginary: Sinclair Oil Corporation’s Dinosaurs, 1963-4," Art Education and Art History. (September 2019).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, ""Indigeneity Through Dress: An Exhibition Proposal for Three Artifacts in the Texas Fashion Collection," Art History. (August 2022 - December 2023).
  • Undergraduate Honors Thesis, ""Cassone Project"," Studio Art. (September 2022 - December 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "‘I wonder in whose possession it is now’: Adapting Provenance Methodologies for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," Art History. (2022).
  • Related Field Professor (Doctoral Level Minor Professor and Committee Member), "Performing Translations: Rethinking Christian Wolff's Alternative Notation and His Creative Communities (1960-1968)," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (2015 - August 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "speechless and Complex Embodiment: Questions of accessibility and inclusion analyzed through the concept of embodiment in Critical Disability Studies, Art History, and Exhibition Studies," Art Education and Art History. (2020 - 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Exhibiting Progress: Educating through Selection and Display at The Society of Arts and Crafts Boston’s 1907 Exhibition," Art History. (April 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member (Virginia Cook), "Rewriting Cultural History: Casa Arabe," Art Education and Art History. (September 2019 - December 2020).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Studio Art. (October 2018 - 2020).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, ""Retelling the Past: Ascribing the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Tiergarten to Post-Unification Narratives"," Art Education and Art History. (November 2018 - November 2019).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, ""Li Beirut with Nostalgia: The Role of Art Institutions in the Reconstruction Area"," Art Education and Art History. (October 2018 - November 2019).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, ""How Does it Feel to be Creative: A Phenomenological Investigation of the Creative Experience in Kinetic Places," Art Education and Art History. (2017).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, ""Moving Downtown: Nullifying Past Negative Perception with the Dallas Art District as Postmodern City Image"," Art Education and Art History. (September 2016 - May 2017).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Art Education and Art History. (December 2016).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Art Education and Art History. (December 2016).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Art Education and Art History. (December 2016).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, ""Semiconductors and Symbolism: Tom Stell's Ceramic Murals and the Story of Texas Instruments," Art Education and Art History. (May 2016).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Art Education and Art History. (May 2016).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Art Education and Art History. (May 2015).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Art Education and Art History. (May 2015).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Art Education and Art History. (December 2014).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Art Education and Art History. (July 2014).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Art Education and Art History. (May 2014).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Art Education and Art History. (May 2014).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Art Education and Art History. (May 2014).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Paula Lupkin/Penny Sparke. (2018). Shaping the American Interior: Structures, Contexts, and Practices. (1st Edition) 328. New York, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Shaping-the-American-Interior-Structures-Contexts-and-Practices/Lupkin-Sparke/p/book/9781138697706
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2010). Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture. Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture Series. 280. Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/manhood-factories

    • Book Chapter

  • Lupkin, P. (2020). The Telegraphic Interior: Networking Space for Capital Flows in the 1920s. Interior Provocations: History, Theory, and Practice of Autonomous Interiors. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/telegraphic-interior-paula-lupkin/e/10.4324/9780367816544-15
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2018). "For Men By Men: Furnishing the YMCA". Shaping the American Interior: Structures, Contexts, and Practices, Paula Lupkin and Penny Sparke, eds. Routledge 2018. New York, Routledge.
  • Lupkin, P.R., Sparke, P. (2018). "Introduction". Shaping the American Interior: Structures, Contexts, and Practices, Paula Lupkin and Penny Sparke, eds. Routledge 2018. New York, Routledge.
  • Grossman, Keating, and Rieff, eds.. (2004). "Chicago YMCA" and "Places of Assembly" essays for the Newberry Library's Encyclopedia of Chicago History.
  • James A. Wood, introduction. (2001). contributor, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Nina Mjagkij and Margaret Spratt, editors. (1997). Manhood Factories: Architecture, Business, and the Evolving Role of the YMCA, 1869-1915" in Men and Woman Adrift: The YMCA and YWCA in the City, 1869-1960.. Men and Woman Adrift: The YMCA and YWCA in the City, 1869-1960. New York, NY, New York University Press. https://nyupress.org/books/9780814755426/

    • Book Review

  • Lupkin, P. How the Working-Class Home became Modern, 1900-1940. Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum. 29 (1) 108-109.
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2020). Monica Penick "Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 79 (1) 116-117.
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2019). review, "The Politics of Furniture: Identity, Diplomacy, and Persuasion in Post-War Interiors," Fredie Flore and Cammie McAtee, eds. (Routledge, 2017). Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum. 26 (2) 125-127.
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2016). "A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950, by Marta Gutman". Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum. 23 (1) 103-105.
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2010). Book Review: On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change, by Ada Louis Huxtable, Belles Lettres: A Literary Review.
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2009). book review, Masonic Temples: Freemasonry, Ritual Architecture, and Masculine Archetypes, by William D. Moore, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2003). book review, Making Men, Making Class: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877-1920, American Historical Review.
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2000). At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture exhibition review in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
  • Lupkin, P.R. (1997). The American Country Club: its Origins and Development, by James Mayo in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

    • Journal Article

  • Lupkin, P. (2022). "High, Low, and Everything in Between" Platform: a digital venue for conversations on architecture, the built environment, and space. https://www.platformspace.net/home/paul-groth-a-festschrift.
  • Joseph Heathcott, editor. (2019). „Standard Vernacular“ – standardisierte Alltagsarchitektur. Standard Architecture, a special issue of ARCH+ Magazine. AUSGABE 233 : NORM-ARCHITEKTUR – VON DURAND ZU BIM (233) https://archplus.net/de/news/18372-standard-vernacular-standardisierte-alltagsarchitektur/. https://archplus.net/ausgabe/233
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2018). "The Wainwright Building: A Monument of St. Louis' Lager Landscape". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. also reprinted in the JSAH Virtual Issue: Skyscrapers, in October 2019. 77 (4) 428-447. http://jsah.ucpress.edu/content/77/4/428.full
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2013). "A Dallas Palimpsest: Layers of St. Louis at Commerce and Akard" in Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas. Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas. 24 (2) 4-15. Dallas, Texas, Dallas Historical Society. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth308998/?q=paula%20lupkin
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2009). "Auteur or Architectural Historian: Digitally Modeling the New York YMCA" in "Digital Crossroads: New Directions in 3D Architectural Modeling in the Humanities".
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2009). "Rethinking Region Along the Railroads".
  • Lupkin, P.R. (2002). "Regional Identity and the Cultural Capital of St. Louis" in Approach 02.
  • Lupkin, P.R. (1995). "A Temple of Practical Christianity: Chicago's YMCA Skyscraper".

    • Popular Press Article

  • Lupkin, P.R. (2010). "Same as it Ever Was: Rebranding the YMCA," University of Minnesota Press Blog, July 22, 2010 http://www.uminnpressblog.com/2010/07/same-as-it-ever-was-rebranding-ymca.html.

Presentations Given

  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "A Moving Target: Technology and the Geography of the Design Professions in Texas and Beyond", (2014 - 2014).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Chair), "Placing the Profession: Interior Design: Early Contexts for Interior Design Practice in the United States, (2014 - 2014).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "Kit of Parts: Building Blocks of American Urbanism", (2013 - 2013).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "Mapping Micro-Circulation: Building, Banking, and Railroad Networks in the Great Southwest, (2013 - 2013).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), Urban Maps and Plans, (2013 - 2013).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "A Dallas Palimpsest: Layers of St. Louis at Commerce and Akard", (2012 - 2012).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "Beer and the Building of Main Street Oklahoma", (2012 - 2012).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "A Lager Landscape: The Cultural Economy of Beer in the Great Southwest", (2011 - 2011).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "Chicago, New York, and the Invention of the YMCA Building", (2011 - 2011).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "Planning the Imperial City", (2011 - 2011).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "A Lager Landscape: Trade Territory and Regional Architecture", (2010 - 2010).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Presenter), "Adolphus Busch's Lager Landscape", (2010 - 2010).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "Beer: A Cultural Landscape", (2010 - 2010).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "Manhood Factories", (2010 - 2010).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "Manhood Factories", (2010 - 2010).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "Manhood Factories", (2010 - 2010).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), Manhood Factories", (2010 - 2010).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "Rethinking Region: Landscape and Cultural Economy in the American Southwest", (2009 - 2009).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "Rethinking Region: Landscape and Cultural Economy in the American Southwest", (2008 - 2008).

    • Invited Talk

  • Lupkin, P. (Author & Presenter), Beyond the Hospital: Alternative Spaces of Health Promotion, Standards, Measurements, and the Design of Moral Health at the YMCA, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain/IHR/Wellcome Collections, London, United Kingdom. (2021 - 2021).
  • Lupkin, P. (Author & Presenter), Lunch and Learn Lecture Series, The Wainwright Building: Lager Beer and the 1st Skyscraper, Osher Institute of Lifelong Learning, Denton, United States of America. (2020).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author & Presenter), Cowtown Cosmopolitan: Constructing a Cultural District for Fort Worth, Texas Christian University Silver Frogs Alumni Group, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, United States of America. (2018).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author & Presenter), South and Southwest: Region, Memory, and the Construction of Identity in 20th Century America", Escola da Cidade School of Architecture, Sao Paolo, Brazil, Brazil. (2018 - 2018).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author), "From Missouri to Mexico: Railroads and Regional Architecture", University of Texas School of Architecture, Austin, Texas, United States of America. (2018).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author & Presenter), UC Berkeley Architectural History Colloquium: Cutting Edge Architectural History, “High, Low, and Everything in Between”, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America. (2015).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author & Presenter), “A Lager Landscape: The Cultural Economy of Beer in the Great Southwest”, University of Wisconsin Department of Art History and Material Culture Program, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. (2015).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author & Presenter), World Records/Vernaculars of the Global Midwest: Buildings and Landscapes, Languages, Music and Song Conference, “Mining Data and Making Maps: Exploring the Great Southwest with the Geospatial Humanities”, Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, the Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture and the Center for the Humanities, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. (2015).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author & Presenter), Modern Interiors Research Centre Tenth Anniversay Colloquium, "For Men, By Men: Building and Furnishing the YMCA", Kingston University, London, England, United Kingdom. (2014 - 2014).

    • Keynote/Plenary Address

  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author & Presenter), Facility Summit for Large YMCAs, "Changing Programs, Changing Buildings: The Evolving Architecture of YMCA Architecture", GRO Development, New York, NY, United States of America. (2016).

    • Panel Presentation

  • Lupkin, P. (Chair), Past Interiors of the Future: Celebrating New Directions in Graduate Study, Past Interiors of the Future: Celebrating New Directions in Graduate Study, Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) Society of Architectural Historians, Zoom Conference, United States of America. (2021 - 2021).
  • Lupkin, P. (Co-Chair), SAH Connects Virtual Programs, "What is an Historic Interior?", Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG) of the Society of Architectural Historians, online via Zoom, United States of America. (2020).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Coordinator/Organizer), Lasc, A. (Coordinator/Organizer), 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Future Endeavors: Publishing and Progress in the History of the Interior, Society of Architectural Historians, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America. (2019).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Panelist), O'Neil Ford: The Architect in his Works and Words, The Legacy of O'Neil Ford in Denton, UNT on the Square, Denton, Texas, United States of America. (2018).

    • Paper

  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author & Presenter), 2023 Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting, "Vernacular Architecture and Interiors: Surveying the Field", Vernacular Architecture Forum, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States of America. (2023).
  • Lupkin, P. (Author & Presenter), 2021 Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, "Architecture, Interiors, and the Expanded Field", Society of Architectural Historians, Pittsburgh, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Lupkin, P. (Author & Presenter), 2020 Vernacular Architecture Forum Virtual Meeting, "A Symbol of Resistance: The Farmers' Alliance in Big D", Vernacular Architecture Forum, United States of America. (2020 - 2020).
  • Lupkin, P. (Author & Presenter), 2020 Annual Meeting, Society of Architectural Historians,, "Eureka Springs: Trains and the Development of Tourism as a Tool of Empire", Society of Architectural Historians, Seattle, Washington, United States of America. (2020).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author), 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society of American City and Regional Planning Historians, Networked St. Louis: Geography, Morphology, and the Telegraph, Washington, D.C., United States of America. (2019).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author & Presenter), Chicago Design: History and Narratives, Questions and Methods, "Cornering Capital: The Board of Trade and the Federal Reserve at Jackson and LaSalle", Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. (2018).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author & Presenter), SAH 71st Annual International Conference, Beyond the Bank: Architecture, Infrastructure, and Financial Networks, Society of Architectural Historians, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. (2018).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author & Presenter), 2nd Annual Interior Provocations Conference: Interiors Without Architecture, "Infrastructural Interiors: Designing for Telegraphy in the Early Twentieth Century", Pratt Institute, New York, NY, United States of America. (2018).

    • Scholarly Meeting Contribution

  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author & Presenter), 2023 Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting, Co-Chair "Vernacular Architecture and Interiors: Past, Present, and Future", Vernacular Architecture Forum, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States of America. (2023).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Author & Presenter), HIG Historiography Event, "Historiography of Historic Interiors Workshop", Historic Interiors Affiliate Group of the Society of Architectural Historians, online via Zoom, United States of America. (2022).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Chair), 2024 Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Lost Interiors: Interpreting the Ephemeral, Society of Architectural Historians, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Chair), 2022 Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting, Comments and Response to "Spaces of Civic Associationism", Vernacular Architecture Forum, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Co-Chair), Lasca, A. (Co-Chair), Design Studies Forum/College Art Association Annual Meeting, "Design on Display: Staging Objects in the Museum and Beyond", Design Studies Form, Washington, D.C., United States of America. (2016).

Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits

  • Curatorial Work. Lupkin, P., "After Promontory", Paula Lupkin, Center for Railroad Photography and Art, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. (October 2017 - April 2018).

Media Contributions

    Internet

  • "The Society of Architectural Historians Announces Establishment of Interiors History Group, an affiliate society," Society of Architectural Historians. (December 10, 2019).
  • ""Field Report: Paula Lupkin"," Edith O'Donnell Institute for Art History Newsletter. (January 2019).
  • "A Lager Landscape: The Cultural Economy of Beer in the Great Southwest," Field Guides to Food. (2018).
  • "Assistant Professor Paula Lupkin's Presentation in Germany," UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. (2017).
  • "Professor Paula Lupkin to present at Pratt Institute's Interiors Without Architecture symposium," UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. (2017).
  • "CVAD Honors Art Appreciation: Public Sculpture in Denton," UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. (2017).
  • "Paula Lupkin: Keynote Speaker at YMCA Facility Summit," UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. (2016).
  • "Dr. Paula Lupkin’s graduate seminar students engaging in archival work during a visit to the TWU Archives," UNT College of Visual Arts and Design. (2014).
  • "Professor Paula Lupkin speaks at the Dallas Architecture Forum," Dallas Architecture Forum. (March 2, 2014).
  • ""Scholar Explores Vaudeville Circuits and Regional Architecture"," Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin. (September 2, 2012).
  • "Interview on new book, Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture," Rorotoko: Cutting Edge Intellectual Interviews. (November 2, 2010).

    • Newspaper

  • "Extreme Makeover at the Y," Wall Street Journal. (November 17, 2021).
  • "O'Neil Ford get Spotlight in UNT on the Square Exhibit," Denton Record-Chronicle. (September 1, 2018).
  • "Lupkin cited as expert on the connections between architect in article and beer," Dallas Morning News. (May 2013).
  • "Paula Lupkin's research uncovers "ghost sign" in Deep Ellum," Dallas Morning News. (February 18, 2012).
  • "Lupkin interviewed as expert on YMCA architecture in article by Mary Beth Klatt, From Hotel to Home: The YMCA Becomes a Force in Affordable Housing"," Chicago Tribune. (August 3, 2003).
  • "Lupkin Speaks at David Dillon Symposium," Dallas Morning News. (April 19, 2003).

    • Other

  • "Paula Lupkin's scholarship on beer and skyscraper's featured in special issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians," President's News Roundup. (2019).

    • TV

  • "Interview on Paula Lupkin's research on the connections between architecture and beer.," Bat of Minerva-Live Interview, April 19, 2011. (April 2011).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Lupkin, P.R. (Principal), ""The Great Southwest: Trade, Territory, and Regional Architecture," sponsored by Clements Center for Southwestern Studies, Southern Methodist University, National, $40000 Funded. (2012 - 2013).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Principal), ""The Great Southwest: Trade, Territory, and Regional Architecture"," sponsored by NEH-UCLA Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Federal, $3000 Funded. (2012 - 2012).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Principal), ""Rethinking Region: Landscape, Cultural Economy, and the Great Southwest"," sponsored by Texas State Historical Association, State, $1000 Funded. (2008 - 2008).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Principal), "Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture," sponsored by Warren Center, Harvard University, Private, $40000 Funded. (2004 - 2005).

    • Grant - Research

  • Lupkin, P., "Identifying an Emerging Field: History of Interiors and its Sources," sponsored by UNT Office of Research and Economic Development, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2020).
  • Lupkin, P.R., "Cornerstone Grant, Great Southwest Manuscript Image Rights Acquisition: Research Assistance and Fees," sponsored by College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (2023 - 2023).
  • Lupkin, P., "The Networked Urban Landscape: Telegraphy and Rail Links in Downtown St. Louis," sponsored by UNT Office of Research and Economic Development, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Principal), "The Telegraph in the Great Southwest: Research at the Smithsonian," sponsored by UNT Office of Research and Economic Development, University of North Texas, $500 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Other), "Designing the Modern Interior: An International Research, Publication, and Pedagogy Collaboration," sponsored by I-GRO Global Start-Up Grant, UNT, University of North Texas, $5850 Funded. (2014 - 2015).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Principal), "UNT Junior Faculty Grant," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. ( - 2014).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Principal), ""The Great Southwest: Trade, Territory and Regional Architecture," sponsored by Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, International, $7500 Funded. (2010 - 2012).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Principal), "The Great Southwest: Trade, Territory and Regional Architecture," sponsored by Ransom Center, UT Austin, State, $3000 Funded. (2009 - 2009).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Principal), "Manhood Factories: YMCA Architecture and the Making of Modern Urban Culture," sponsored by Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts, International, $10000 Funded. (2005 - 2007).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Principal), "World Architecture Curriculum Development," sponsored by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, National, $3000 Funded. (2003 - 2003).

    • Grant - Teaching

  • Lupkin, P., ""Neiman Marcus and the Texas Fashion Collection" Special Collections Coursework Grant," sponsored by UNT Libraries, University of North Texas, $500 Funded. (2020).
  • Lupkin, P.R. (Co-Principal), "Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development Grant," sponsored by American Culture Studies Program, Washington University, Private, $20000 Funded. (2002 - 2003).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Member, Retention Promotion and Tenure Committee. (2022 - 2023).
  • Committee Member, Design History Tenure Track Search Committee. (January 2022 - May 2022).
  • Committee Member, Interior Design Tenure Track Search Committee. (January 2022 - May 2022).
  • Chairperson, Art History Department Tenure Track Search Committee: Design and Material Culture. (August 2021 - May 2021).
  • Chairperson, Retention, Promotion, Tenure Committee. (September 2020 - May 2021).
  • Committee Member, Interior Design Tenure Track Search Committee. (August 2020 - May 2021).
  • Committee Member, College of Visual Arts and Design Art in Public Places Committee. (2016 - 2020).
  • Committee Member, Art History Department Chair Search Committee. (October 2019 - August 2020).
  • Committee Member, Retention, Promotion, and Tenure Committee. (September 2019 - August 2020).
  • Committee Member, Retention, Promotion, and Tenure Committee. (September 2019 - August 2020).
  • Committee Member (Art History program representative), College of Visual Arts and Design Academic Committee. (August 2015 - 2019).
  • Committee Chair, Art History Visiting Assistant Professor Search Position. (September 2018 - April 2019).
  • Committee Member, Preview and Portfolio Day Committee. (2014 - 2017).
  • Committee Member, Design Faculty Member Search. (October 2015 - April 2016).

Public Service

  • Other (Deputy Chairperson), Texas State Board of Review/Texas Historical Commission. Austin, Texas. (February 2024 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Texas State Board of Review/Texas Historical Commission. Austin, Texas. (December 2021 - January 2024).

Professional Service

  • Reviewer, Book, University of Minnesota Press. (2021 - Present).
  • Board of Advisors, Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG), Society of Architectural Historians. Chicago, Illinois. (May 2019 - May 2023).
  • Officer, President/Elect/Past, Historic Interiors Affiliate Group (HIG), Society of Architectural Historians. Dallas, TX. (2017 - May 2023).
  • Reviewer, Book, University of Pittsburgh Press. (2020 - 2022).
  • Reviewer, Book, Bloomsbury Press, Routledge Press, and Lund Humphries Press. (2017 - 2021).
  • Committee Member, Society of Architectural Historians. Chicago, Illinois. (April 2021).
  • Committee Member, Vernacular Architecture Forum Education Committee. (2016 - 2017).
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Buildings and Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum. (2014 - 2017).
  • Other (Board Member), Vernacular Architecture Forum. (2014 - 2017).
  • Committee Member, National Endowment for the Humanities. Washington, D.C.. (August 2017).
  • Committee Chair, Vernacular Architecture Forum Catherine Bishir Award Committee. (2016).
  • Committee Member, Vernacular Architecture Forum Paul Buchanan Award Committee. (2016).
  • Other (Founding Board Member), DFW Art History Network. (2012 - 2016).
  • Committee Member, H. Allen Brooks Fellowship Competition Society of Architectural Historians. (2015).
  • Committee Member, Winthertur Library Research and Dissertation Fellowship Program. Newark, Delaware. (2015).
  • Other (Program Co-Chair), Society of American City and Regional Planning History. Los Angeles, CA. (2014 - 2015).
  • Other (Jury Member), Preservation Dallas Annual Preservation Awards. (2013 - 2013).
  • Other (Presented in SMU's public outreach program), Godbey Lecture Series, Southern Methodist University. (2012 - 2012).
  • Committee Member, Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts. (2011 - 2011).
  • Committee Member, Society of Architectural Historians. (2011 - 2011).
  • Other (Board Member), St. Louis Metropolitan Research Exchange. (2002 - 2004).
  • Other (Local Committee Member), Society for American City and Regional Planning History Annual Meeting. (2003 - 2003).
  • Other (Faculty Councilor), Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. (2000 - 2002).

Consulting

  • For Profit Organization, GRO-DEV, United States of America. (2023).
  • For Profit Organization, GRO Development, New York, United States of America. (2016).
  • Academic, Save the Boston Y Campaign, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. (2011 - 2011).