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Peter Clericuzio is a historian of modern architecture in Europe and North America, particularly interested in the intersection of the built environment with urbanism, the construction of collective and historical memory, and the creation of blended identities in response to historical shifts. He is currently assembling the manuscript of Building A Regional Modernism: Art Nouveau Architecture in Nancy, 1895–1914, which examines the development of Art Nouveau in eastern France as an attempt among architects to strike a balance between regional and national political, cultural, and economic interests in the years before World War I. He is also currently at work on a long-term project involving the late work of Le Corbusier and the political culture of the French Reconstruction.

Clericuzio has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his doctoral work, as well as Florida International University, the University of Tennessee, and Eastern Kentucky University. He worked as the academic programs manager at The Wolfsonian–FIU, where he also curated several exhibitions on modern architecture, design, and the decorative arts before coming to Pitt.