Anna Goodman teaches urban and architectural history, design research, and design studios within PSU's undergraduate and graduate architecture and Urban Design Certificate programs. She earned a B.Arch from Rice University and a Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Her forthcoming book (with the University of Texas Press), titled Citizen Architects, documents the political ramifications of architecture students' work in full-scale building programs in the United States from the 1920s to the early 2000s. She has published articles on topics of community-based design, participatory urbanism, and experimental architectural education in peer-review journals, including the Journal of Architectural Education and the Journal of Urban History. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review and Dialectic, along with a series of oral-history-based podcasts in the audio journal Attention. Her work has been funded by multiple research and publication grants, most recently from the Graham Foundation.
Anna was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2014 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.