Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
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Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

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I enjoy working in a number of fields that connect my interest in the past and present of the U.S. with landscape, women's studies, education, biography, sexual representation, law, medicine, a tourism, and food history. I began at Wellesley where I got my B.A. and continued at Harvard, where I earned an American Studies Ph.D. I’ve taught at MIT, Union College, Scripps College, the University of Southern California, and, most importantly, Smith College. I love to write and learn about new subjects. My previous book was "A Taste for Provence." My newest book is "Traces of J. B. Jackson: The Man Who Taught Us to See Everyday America." It is the biography of a brilliant man whose insights, beginning in the early 1950s, not only influenced planners, architects, and landscape architects, but in its focus on the vernacular, informed readers about the everyday places of the countryside and city.
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