Carla Yanni

Carla Yanni is an architectural historian and the author of three monographs, each one a social history of a single building type. _Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory_ (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) examines the dwellings of college students (from the 1600s to 1968) set against the backdrop of major shifts in higher education. _The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States_ offers an exploration of Kirkbride-plan mental hospitals. _The Architecture of Madness_ won a Graham Foundation subvention grant and was named a “Book of Critical Interest” by Critical Inquiry in 2007. _Nature’s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display_ analyzed buildings for natural history in Darwin’s century. She earned the doctorate in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.