Julia Foulkes has been at The New School since 1999 teaching and developing curricula in history and urban studies. Her first book, Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey (2002), received an Honorable Mention for the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize. In the midst of working on that book, she served as an advisor for the PBS documentary Free to Dance (2001).

She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (2005-06) and a Scholar-in-Residence fellowship at Rockefeller Archive Center (2005), which have supported her current research concerning the intertwining of the arts and urbanization after World War II.

A forthcoming book, To the City, uses photographs from the New Deal to examine the spread of urbanization in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s; another book, Culture Cities, looks at the impact of arts institutions on neighborhoods, particularly the emergence of Lincoln Center in the 1960s and the re-vitalization of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the 1970s.

Courses:
What is History?
Twentieth Century World History
To the City: U.S. Urban History
Urban Life: Social Justice and the Lived City
Re-Imagining New York
Interpretations of Slavery in the U.S.
Art and Politics: The Case of Paul Robeson
Sight, Sound, and Spectacle in the 1930s
The Body: Ethics and Aesthetics
"Make it New": Modernism in the U.S.
U.S. History Since 1876

Urban Readings
• West Side Story (musical, 1957; movie, 1961)