Catherine W. Zipf, PhD, is an award-winning architectural historian and author of Professional Pursuits: Women and the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Her research examines the history of race and gender in the built environment and has been supported by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. An active contributor to a range of print and online publications, Zipf is already at work on her third book, Making a Home of Her Own: Newport's Architectural Patronesses, 1850-1940. She presently serves as Executive Director of the Bristol Historical & Preservation Society, in Bristol, RI.