M. Christine Boyer, who joined the faculty in 1991, is an urban historian whose interests include the history of the city, city planning, preservation planning, and computer science. Before coming to the School, she was professor and chair of the City and Regional Planning Program at Pratt Institute and she has taught at Cooper Union, Columbia University and Harvard University. At Princeton she is the William R. Kenan Jr. professor of architecture and urbanism. Boyer received an award from the Department of Art and Archaeology Publication Fund, for publication of Le Corbusier: homme de letters (1910-1947) (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010). Her publications include Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning 1890-1945 (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1983), Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style 1850-1900 (New York: Rizzoli, 1985), The City of Collective Memory (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), and CyberCities (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996). Among her recent articles are “Collective Memory Under Siege: The Case of Heritage Terrorism” in C. Craig Crysler, Stephen Cairns and Hilde Heynen (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory (London NY: Sage Publications Ltd., 2012); “The Two Orders of Cybernetics in Urban Form and Design” in Tridib Banerjee and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (eds.), Companion in Urban Design (New York: Routledge, 2011); “The Many Mirrors of Michel Foucault and their Architectural Reflections” in Michiel Dehaene and Lieven De Cauter (eds.) Heterotopia and the City: Public Space in a Postcivil Society (London: Routledge, 2008); “Urban Operations and Network Centric Warfare” in Michael Sorkin (ed.) Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State (New York: Routledge, 2007); “La Mission Héliographique: Architectural Photography, Collective Memory and the Patrimony of France, 1851” in Joan M. Swartz and James R. Ryan (eds.) Picturing Place, Photography and the Geographical Imagination (New York: I.B. Taurus, 2003).