Kathryn E. Holliday, Hon. AIA Fort Worth and Hon. AIA Dallas, is professor of architecture and landscape history at the University of Texas at Arlington in Dallas-Fort Worth and is founding director of the Dillon Center for Texas Architecture, which connects the university to local communities and non-profits to support more equitable practices in design and historic preservation. Her work focuses on the varied ways that architects, critics, city governments, and corporations shape the built environment in American cities. She is currently a Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC at work on the book project Telephone City: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Rise and Fall of the Bell Monopoly. She holds a PhD in Architecture and an MA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in Art History and Environmental Studies from Williams College and is the author, previously, of the award-winning books Leopold Eidlitz: Architecture and Idealism in the Gilded Age (2008) and The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture (2019). Her work has been supported by grants from the SOM Foundation, the National Park Service Civil Rights Grant program, the Kress Foundation, and the Hagley Library.