Educator, historian, and architect, Robert A.M. Stern is the founding partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects; he served as dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1998 to 2016. He is lead author of a monumental five-volume New York series that documents the city's architecture and urbanism from the Civil War to the millennium. Published in 2018, The New Residential Colleges at Yale: A Conversation Across Time (The Monacelli Press) documents the design and realization of the Collegiate Gothic Pauli Murray College and Benjamin Franklin College at Yale, which opened in the fall of 2017.