Despina Stratigakos, assistant professor of architecture in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and assistant professor of visual studies in the UB College of Arts and Sciences, has received the prestigious 2009 Book Prize from the DAAD (Deutcher Akadamischer Austausch Dienst/German Academic Exchange Service), a publicly funded independent organization of higher education institutions in Germany.

Stratigakos was honored for her 2008 book “A Woman’s Berlin: Building the Modern City,” in which she examines the era between 1871 and 1918 when women took control of Berlin’s spaces and laid the foundation for a novel experience of urban modernity.

The DAAD prize is presented for the outstanding book on German language, literature or cultural studies published during the preceding two years by a scholar working in a North American institution. Read more.