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Bonj Szczygiel
Associate Professor

431 Stuckeman Family Building• University Park, PA • 16801
ph: 814.863.8596 • email: bxs28@psu.edu

Education
B.S.L.A., The Pennsylvania State University
M.L.A.,The Pennsylvania State University
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Interests
History, Design Theory

Bonj Szczygiel is Associate Director of The Center for Studies in Landscape History. Her research interests focus on design history, 19th-century urban design and health issues especially as related to gender and cultural landscape studies. She was primary editor of Gendered Landscapes: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space (2000). Her recent publications include “Nineteenth Century Medical Landscapes: John Rauch, Frederick Law Olmsted and the Search for Salubrity” Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Winter 2000) and “City Beautiful Revisited: An Analysis of 19th Century Civic Improvement Efforts” (forthcoming, Jan 2003) Journal of Urban History. She joined the faculty at Penn State in 1996 as a second career, having previously spent ten years as a legal advocate of the rights of native Americans and indigent persons within the federal Legal Services program, and as a member of VISTA.  
 

 

 

 

 

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