Kathleen Murphy Skolnik is an art and architecture historian, based at Roosevelt University in Chicago. She is the co-author of The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meière and a contributor to Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America. She was previously editor of the Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine and currently sits on the advisory board of the Art Deco Society of New York and the board of the International Hildreth Meière Association.