Dietrich Neumann (*1956) is Professor of Modern Architectural History at Brown University in Providence, USA, and Director of the John Nicholas Brown Centre for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. He held visiting professorships at Yale University and the University of Porto. He has worked on building types and materials, film sets and architectural illumination. He has received several awards for his research from the Society of Architectural Historians. He was President of the society from 2008 to 2010 and was elected a fellow in 2019.