Emily Bills

Emily Bills, PhD, is an educator, author, and curator. She has authored and contributed essays to several books on architectural and urban history, including California Captured (Phaidon, 2018), Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America (Gibbs, 2016) and Visual Merchandising: The Image of Selling (Ashgate, 2016). She has curated exhibitions on Wayne Thom, Pedro E. Guerrero, Catherine Opie, and Héléne Binet, among others. Her book Linking Up Los Angeles: How the Telephone Built a City is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press.