About . . . Daphne Spain

Daphne Spain chair of the department of urban and environmental planning in the school of architecture at the University of Virginia . Her publications include Gendered Spaces (University of North Carolina Press, 1992) and (with Suzanne Bianchi) Balancing Act: Motherhood, Marriage and Employment among American Women (Russell Sage Foundation, 1996). Her most recent book is How Women Saved the City ( University of Minnesota Press , 2001), explores the importance of redemptive places built by women volunteers at the turn of the 20th century. Spain has received research grants from the Russell Sage Foundation and The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; she is a member of the Urban Affairs Association governing board and a past member of the governing board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.