Erika Naginski serves as the Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Architectural History at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her research interests encompass Baroque Enlightenment architecture, early modern aesthetic philosophy, theories of public space, and critical traditions in architectural history. She teaches courses such as 'Building Texts Contexts' and offers seminars on architectural history and theory including 'Shapes of Utopia,' 'The Piranesi Effect,' and 'Versailles Visionaries: Ruin and the Aesthetic.' Naginski's notable publications include 'Sculpture and the Enlightenment' (2009) and 'Polemical Objects' (2004). Her work examines the transformation of public art and architecture amidst the rise of secular rationalism and revolutionary politics. In 2007, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for her current project exploring the intersections of architecture, archaeology, and historical conception in the eighteenth century. Before joining Harvard, she taught in the architecture department at MIT and the art history department at the University of Michigan, and has held prestigious fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.