Scholar Garnette Cadogan will give a Paula G. Manship Endowed Lecture to the College of Art & Design on Monday, March 24 at 3:00 p.m. in the Digital Media Center auditorium.

His research focuses on the promise and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the challenges of pluralism; his teaching brings together art, architecture, and urban planning to explore and examine migration, inequality, climate change, and public space.

An educator who is devoted to the written word, he is also an essayist, and writes on culture and the arts for a variety of publications. His love for the arts has led to collaborations with artists and musicians, such as How the Spotlight Sounds (with Vijay Iyer, featured at The Kitchen, New York City). He has taught at Yale University, New York University, and the University of Virginia, where he was the 2020-2021 Harry W. Porter, Jr. Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture. He has been Senior Critic in the Sculpture Department at Yale School of Art, Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, Visiting Fellow at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, Visiting Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, and Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. The Editor-at-Large for Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, he is at work on a book on walking.