Kathleen Curran has taught at Trinity since 1990. A specialist in architectural history, she believes in the importance of understanding the built environment: buildings, cities, and landscapes. A winner of the 1997 Arthur H. Hughes Teaching Award, Curran teaches the specialist and non-specialist alike. Besides her courses in the history of architecture and cities, she has served as the College’s architecture adviser and has sent many students off to successful careers in architecture, historic preservation, and art history. Her book The Romanesque Revival: Religion, Politics, and Transnational Exchange (Penn State Press, 2003) won the Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award given by The Victorian Society in America. Her recent book The Invention of the American Art Museum, 1870-1930: From Craft to Kulturgeschichte (Getty Research Institute, 2016) examines the intellectual origins of the American art museum that gave birth to the museum movement at the turn of the twentieth century.

• Curran, Kathleen. The Invention of the American Art Museum, 1870-1930: From Craft to Kulturgeschichte. Getty Research Institute, 2016.
• Curran, Kathleen. "Displaying Cultural History: The Smithsonian Institution and the World's Fairs." In Meet Me at the Fair: The World's Fair Reader, edited by Celia Pearce, Laura Hollengreen, Rebecca Rouse, and Bobby Schweizer, 31-40. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University, ETC Press, 2014.
• Curran, Kathleen. The Romanesque Revival: Religion, Politics, and Transnational Exchange. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.
• Curran, Kathleen. "Henry Hobson Richardson (Gambrill & Richardson)." In The Makers of Trinity Church in the City of Boston, edited by James F. O'Gorman, 60-81.  Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004.
• Curran, Kathleen. “The Romanesque Revival, Mural Painting, and Protestant Patronage in America.” Art Bulletin LXXXI, no. 4 (December 1999): 693-722.

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, 1994.
• Arthur H. Hughes Award for Teaching Achievement, Trinity College, 1997.
• Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Publication Grant, 2003 (for The Romanesque Revival: Religion, Politics, and Transnational Exchange,  Penn State Press, 2003).
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries/Spencer F. Baird Fellowship, Summer 2003.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Spring 2005, (for book project “Craft and Culture on Display: The American Art Museum, 1870—1940”).
• Henry-Russell Hitchcock National Book Award from The Victorian Society in America, 2005 (for The Romanesque Revival: Religion, Politics, and Transnational Exchange, Penn State Press, 2003).