Carla Yanni
Carla Yanni, is associate professor of art history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. In March 2000, Johns Hopkins
University Press published her book, Nature’s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display. She
received the Society of Architectural Historians Founders’ Award for her article, “Divine Display or Secular Science:
Definitions of Nature at the Natural History Museum in London,” in 1996, and in 1994 she earned a doctorate in art
history from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently working on a book on the architecture of American
insane asylums and their relationship to theories in Victorian psychiatry. During the academic year 2002-2003 she
was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
DC.