Claire Zimmerman directs the PhD Program in Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto Daniels Faculty. Her current projects include work on industrial architecture, a collective research project on The Costs of Architecture, a co-edited book titled Lines of Property, and a publication project on architectural collage. She has published three solo-authored books (in press: Albert Kahn Inc.: Architecture Labor, Industry), four edited books (most recent: Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International), and many articles, both long and short form. 

She studied at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1985), Harvard University (MArch., 1990), and the CUNY Graduate Center (Ph.D., 2005). She directed Doctoral Studies in Architecture at the University of Michigan (2013-2019), where she co-founded the Equity in Architectural Education Consortium, a resource-sharing group of architectural schools with complementary needs. She has chaired the Committee on Equity in the Department of the History of Art and coordinated a community engagement project at UM, Black Washtenaw County (+$500,000). 

Zimmerman serves or has served on thirty-nine dissertation committees, as primary advisor for eleven. She is the Associate Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.