Michelangelo Sabatino (Ph.D.) was trained as an architect and architectural historian in Venice and Toronto. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture of the University of Houston. His research and teaching interests are focused upon late 19th and 20th century European and North American architecture, urbanism, and design.

His publications have appeared in journals such as "Casabella," "Harvard Design Magazine," "Rotunda," and "JSAH." He has contributed an essay to Foro Italico (2003) and co-edited Il nuovo e il moderno in architettura (2001). Sabatino has received fellowships and grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, Georgia O'Keefe Research Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada). He has chaired sessions at SAH and CAA annual conferences and has recently organized an international symposium Viva Italia! on Italian design at the Institute for Contemporary Design (Canada).