Jennifer Strtak

A native of Toronto, Canada, Jennifer Strtak is a Visiting Research Fellow from Yale University, where she is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History. Prior to embarking on doctoral research, she completed an Honours Bachelor of Arts at Trinity College, University of Toronto, and a Master of Philosophy at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.

Research interests

Transportation ; Mobility ; Urban Design ; Infrastructure; Early Modern Cities

Research project pursued at the CEE

Jennifer Strtak’s research engages carriages as investigative tools to explore how the development of transportation shaped built environments, new forms of social interaction, and the regulation of human movement in Paris between 1600-1800. Historians, architects, and urban planners and theorists routinely treat city design and development as an autonomous phenomenon and highly technical and professional field. Yet Strtak’s work reveals that the infrastructures, interactions, and policies that carriages and their accompanying services made possible profoundly impacted the physical and social landscape of cities and influenced their livability. Her research has been generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada) and the Fox International Fellowship Program.

To know more

jennifer.strtak@sciencespo.fr