Spaces of Immigration

Catherine Boland Erkkila is an architectural historian specializing in American cultural landscapes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her work has received several awards, including the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, a Newberry Library fellowship, and the Vernacular Architecture Forum’s 2016 Bishir Prize. She previously worked as the managing editor of SAH Archipedia and taught at Rutgers University.

Spaces of Immigration is a groundbreaking and important scholarly contribution to American history, particularly the history of immigration, ethnic history, and business history, as well as architectural history, vernacular architecture studies, the history of interiors, and American studies. Although railways and railway stations have been studied extensively in the past, Spaces of Immigration employs a novel conceptual framework and knits together place, space, movement, and experience in a way that enriches all the disciplines involved.