Ginger Nolan

Ginger Nolan is assistant professor of architectural history at the University of Southern California.

Her work focuses on the intersections of race, class, architecture, and media technologies. She has published two books — Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design (2021) and The Neocolonialism of the Global Village (2018) — both from University of Minnesota Press. She has been the recipient of research awards and fellowships from the Graham Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). She is the winner of the 2022 SAH | Places Prize on Race and the Built Environment, and is currently writing a book on the impact of African American-owned insurance companies on twentieth-century U.S. cities.