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Emily Bills is an educator, curator, and author with research interests in urban and architectural history, and social and environmental justice. She is Visiting Associate Professor of Sustainable Practices and Program Director of the Construction Management program at the University of Redlands’ Los Angeles campus.

Professor Bills received her Ph.D. in the history of architecture and urbanism from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art. Her work on telephone infrastructure and the development of Los Angeles received a Graham Foundation Carter Manny Award Citation of Special Recognition. She’s also received fellowship and grant support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Haynes Foundation, and the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, among others. Curatorial projects include exhibitions on William F. Cody, Hélène Binet, Pedro E. Guerrero, Catherine Opie, and Richard Barnes, among others. She curated the exhibition After Modernism: Through the Lens of Wayne Thom at the Pacific Asia Museum in 2022.

Emily’s book California Captured: Marvin Rand Mid-Century Modern Architecture(Phaidon, 2018), co-authored with Sam Lubell and Pierluigi Serraino, won the Regional Bookseller’s Award for Best Art Book of 2018 and was listed as a notable book of the year by Los Angeles Magazine and Curbed Los Angeles. Her second book on architectural photography, Wayne Thom: Photographing the Late Modern, was published by Monacelli Press (2020). Her next project, Calling Los Angeles: How Telecommunications Helped Build a City, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press.