"model of modernity" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that conforms to or is representative of modern standards or conventions. For example, you might say, "This building is considered a model of modernity, featuring the latest advances in energy efficiency and design."
When it opened, the visitors were told, Eastern State was seen as a model of modernity and enlightenment.
Now, abruptly, we are told that India and China are economic giants, driving world growth by converging on the European model of modernity.
As tyranny dwindles across the world; as democracy gets fresh life in regions once considered inhospitable; India becomes the model of modernity".
Mass tourism inscribes onto Tibet a nation-building agenda, and a self-making pedagogy, wherein tourist consumption of Tibet makes one a model of modernity, a self-made individual of high human quality, having absorbed the master narrative of Tibet's eternal friendship with Han China.
A figure such as Evo Morales of Bolivia, a leader of mixed ethnic origin who was a coca farmers' union leader, conforms neither to Octavio Paz's Zapatism nor Jose Mariátegui's advocacy of an indigenous model of modernity.
US Latin American literature scholar Misha Kokotovic summarizes that the novelist was charged with seeing "indigenous cultures as a 'primitive' obstacle to the full realization of his Western model of modernity".
Dickens (whose character of Bucket in Bleak House was broadly based on Whicher's friend and boss Charley Field) knew Whicher and had eulogised the new breed of detective as "models of modernity" in several magazine articles and stories.
Mankiewicz, a wunderkind who graduated from Columbia University at the age of nineteen and got his first Oscar nomination (for screenwriting) at twenty-two, had planned to become a psychiatrist; he cleverly integrated rich backstory into the action and motivated the plots from deep within the characters, making movies that were models of modernity.
How was Lhasa reimagined, as a safe comfortable family-friendly attractive destination, where urban folk can learn to individuate, to become models of modernity and discriminating consumers of the state narrative of the iconic sites of Lhasa, all of them state owned and scripted?
The possibility of Siquijor's connections to models of modernity and kalamboan other than Amerika could have been productively explored.
Appropriately, Feinsod's methodology is defined by travel and discovery that watchword of conquest and colonization for he finds the story within the institutions (libraries, foundations, archives that have formalized enlightenment models of modernity.
