Bill Shaffer is the author of Emotion In Motion: 55 Baranger Displays, to be published by Vitra Design Museum in June, 2021. He has been published on designobserver.com and the online site of Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, where he was a Smithsonian Fellow. Shaffer has also worked as a Research Assistant for Paul Goldberger on his latest book, Ballpark: Baseball in The American City, (Knopf, 2019) and for Laura Auricchio’s contribution to A True Friend of The Cause: Lafayette and the Antislavery Movement, (Grolier Club, 2016). He holds an M.A., History of Design and Curatorial Studies from Parsons, The New School.
