Peter Levins

Peter works closely with undergraduate students applying for completive national awards in the Office of National Scholarships, where he serves as the primary campus advisor for the Fulbright, Gilman, Udall, and Beinecke scholarship programs. He came to the University of Pittsburgh from Brown University, where he received his PhD in the History of Art & Architecture. There, he instructed students in architectural history, writing across the disciplines, and competitive fellowships applications as they navigated through the institution’s Open Curriculum. 

Peter’s research centers on modern architecture in Southern, Central, and Southeastern Europe, with a particular focus on the cultural politics of design under Italian Fascism in the contested Adriatic borderlands. Research for his dissertation was supported by the U.S. Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program (2022–2023) and Foreign Language and Area Studies Program (2017) as well as the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Program (2017–2018) and Title VIII Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (2019, 2020, 2021–2022). In addition, he served as an inaugural resident fellow at the Center for the Art & Architectural History of Port Cities at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy (2018).

He has taught lecture, seminar, and studio courses in architectural history and architectural design at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. He holds a B.Arch and BS in the History of Architecture & Urban Development from Cornell University.