Barbara Penner (born 1970) is an

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and Professor of Architectural Humanities at the Bartlett School of Architecture,

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.Dr Barbara Penner.
University College London. Retrieved 14 May 2016. She is a specialist in the history of small spaces, specifically the bathroom and toilet, and has written on the institution of the

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in 19th century North America. Penner received her BA in English literature and history of art from

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in 1994, her Master of Science in architectural history from

in 1996, and her PhD from

Birkbeck College Birkbeck, University of London (formally Birkbeck College, University of London), is a public research university located in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. Established in 1823 as the London Mechanics' ...

in 2003. Barbara has received a variety of fellowships and awards, including from The Leverhulme Trust, The Clark Art Institute, Cornell University, the Winterthur Museum and the Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History. She has recently concluded a major Humanities in the European Research Area Joint Research Programme grant, Printing the Past: Architecture, Print Culture, and Uses of the Past in Modern Europe, led by the

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, with partners from digital media lab Factum Arte, Ghent University, Leiden University, Musée d’Orsay, and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Selected publications

*''Gender space architecture: An interdisciplinary introduction''. Routledge, London, 1999. (Edited with Iain Borden and Jane Rendell) *''Ladies and gents: Public toilets and gender''.

Temple University Press Temple University Press is a university press founded in 1969 that is part of Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). It is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach ...

, 2009. (Edited with Olga Gershenson) *''Newlyweds on tour: Honeymooning in nineteenth-century America''.

University Press of New England The University Press of New England (UPNE), located in Lebanon, New Hampshire and founded in 1970, was a university press consortium including Brandeis University, Dartmouth College (its host member), Tufts University, the University of New Hampsh ...

, Lebanon, 2009. *''Bathroom''. Reaktion Books, 2013.Bathroom History and Evolution.
GDC Interiors. Retrieved 14 May 2016. (RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University-Located Research, 2014)

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