Michelangelo Sabatino is a publicly engaged educator, historian, curator, and preservationist whose research and writing focuses primarily on architecture and the built environment of the twentieth century.  Sabatino trained in art, architectural and design history, and preservation at universities in Canada, Italy, and the United States of America. He earned a professional degree in Architecture at the Università IUAV di Venezia and a PhD in the Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto. He held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of History of Art + Architecture, Harvard University. Sabatino taught at Yale University and the University of Houston before his appointment to IIT’s College of Architecture. Here, in addition to having served as the Interim Dean (2017-19) he currently directs the PhD Program in Architecture and is the inaugural John Vinci Distinguished Research Fellow. Sabatino’s research has been supported by a range of funding agencies and institutions such as SSHRC, Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Graham Foundation.