James Graham

James Graham is an architect, historian, and editor whose research and teaching interests include the intersections of architectural modernism with applied psychology and occupational therapy, climatic imaginaries and environmental thinking, and the dynamics of global modernization. Since 2020 he has been an assistant professor at the California College of the Arts. James’s dissertation—Psychotechnical Modernism: Architecture, Design, and Occupational Therapy, 1914–1945—received the Graham Foundation’s Carter Manny Award for dissertation writing in 2017; other ongoing research projects include the intersections of agriculture and nationality with Constructivist architecture in the Soviet Union. James was the director of Columbia Books on Architecture and the City from 2013–2020 and was founding editor of the Avery Review. In 2019–20 he was a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Ideas and Imagination in Paris. He holds a BS.Arch from the University of Virginia, an M.Arch from MIT, an MA in Media Studies from the New School, and a Ph.D from Columbia GSAPP.