PhD, University of California Davis. Urban and town planning historian with expertise in urban studies, European urban development, 20th century. Professor of History at Fordham University. Fulbright Global Scholar in 2018-19 and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University in 2018. EURIAS Senior Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2012-13). Co-editor of Urban History (July 2021-). Editorial Board of Planning Perspectives, the Built Heritage journal, and Fordham University Press. Member of the International Committee for the European Urban History Association as well as the Global Urban History Project. Currently working on a book project entitled “Global Crossroads: London, Shanghai, Bombay.”
Wakeman, R. A Modern History of European Cities, 1815 to the Present. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-modern-history-of-european-cities-9781350017665/
Wakeman, R., ed. “Shanghai: Heritage at the Crossroads of Culture.” Built Heritage, 2019. https://www.built-heritage.net/issue-11-content
Wakeman, R. Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, 2016. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo22776746.html
Wakeman, R. “Was there an Idea Socialist City? Socialist New Towns as Modern Dreamscape.” In (Trans)Nationalism and the German City, edited by J. Diefendorf, Ward and J. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137390165
Wakeman, R. “Rethinking Postwar Planning History.” Edited by C. Hein. Planning Perspectives. Special Issue on Postwar Planning 29, no. 2 (2014). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02665433.2013.871208