LOUIS P. NELSON. Vice Provost for Academic Outreach. Professor of Architectural History, University of Virginia

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1 LOUIS P. NELSON Vice Provost for Academic Outreach Professor of Architectural History University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA Academic Experience Ph.D Art History, University of Delaware (4.0 G.P.A.) Dissertation: The Material Word: Anglican Visual Culture in Colonial South Carolina M.A Art History, University of Delaware Thesis: Representations of the South Carolina Lowcountry Landscape, B.A College of William and Mary Fine Arts, concentration in Architecture Employment Experience 2018-present Vice Provost for Academic Outreach, University of Virginia 2017 Associate Provost for Academic Outreach, University of Virginia 2015-present 2015-present Professor of Architectural History, University of Virginia Affiliate Faculty, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean for Academics, School of Architecture Associate Dean for Research and International Programs (Interim Dean, June 2014) Chair, Department of Architectural History Associate Professor of Architectural History, University of Virginia Assistant Professor of Architectural History, University of Virginia Lilly Postdoctoral Fellow, Valparaiso University Research Associate and Programs Assistant, Preservations Division, Historic Charleston Foundation, Charleston, SC Prepared and presented HCF responses to applications for new construction and alterations to historic architecture within the National Register Historic District Completed annual inspections of HCF easement and covenant properties Publications * indicates peer review Books: *Slavery at Thomas Jefferson s University (University of Virginia Press) co-edited volume, in press. Expected

2 2018 *Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity, University of Virginia Press, 2018, coedited with Claudrena Harold * a must read for anyone processing the events of August 11-12, 2017 Andra Gillespie, Emory * has much to offer readers trying to make sense of those bewildering events, Nicole Hemmer, UVA 2016 *Architecture and Empire in Jamaica, Yale University Press, 2016 * 2017 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Foundation for Landscape Studies * 2017 Abbot Lowell Cummings Prize, Vernacular Architecture Forum * 2017 Outstanding Book of the Year Award, Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians * 2016 Best Research Award by a UVA School of Architecture tenured faculty member * Honorable Mention, American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence * Reviewed by James Robertson for the New West Indies Guide (2018) * a fresh analysis of eighteenth-century colonial architecture overturns narratives [with] with arguments solidly rafted on field analyses. *Reviewed by James Delle for Winterthur Portfolio 51 (2017) * essential reading for any serious scholar of Jamaica, the West Indies, European Colonialism, or New World architecture. * Reviewed by Preeti Chopra for caa.reviews * ambitious, generously illustrated, and beautifully produced. * a major contribution to our understanding of empire. * Reviewed by Paul Niell for The Art Bulletin 99 (2017) * thoroughly researched, theoretically sophisticated, and richly illustrated * Reviewed by Alex Bremner for Architectural History 60 (2017) * a tour de force of a new regional and transnational approach to the study of the built environment.a model study * Reviewed by Bruce Boucher for Times Literary Supplement, 20 Oct 2017 * reconstructs a lost chapter in the history of Britain s colonial empire. * Reviewed by Daniel Maudlin for Architecture Beyond Europe Journal 11, 2017 * fascinating an example of how a good (postcolonial) history should be written * Reviewed by Mary Corbin Sies, Univ. of Maryland * a tour de force of fieldwork-based scholarship but it keeps its fieldwork in service to the most central social and economic issues of the era * Reviewed by Jay Edwards in Journal of Historical Geography (Feb 2017) * Exemplary and ground-breaking both detailed and broad, local and multicontinental * Reviewed by Edward Chappell for Buildings and Landscapes (Spring 2017) * an excellent and award-worthy book * Subject of Keynote Book Discussion, annual meeting of Archaeological Society of Jamaica, Kingston Jamaica, March 2016, discussants: * Dr. James Robertson, Senior Lecturer in History, University of the West Indies * Dr. Veront Satchell, Professor of History, University of the West Indies * Dr. Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis, Lecturer, Caribbean School of Architecture 2014 *Falmouth, Jamaica: Architecture as History, Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2014 collected essays and field guide Reviewed by Jamaica Journal Vol. 36, no. 1-2 impressive, the product of an ambitious research project 2011 *Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011 * a book of collected essays co-edited with Maurie McInnis * Reviewed by The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3 (July 2012) 2

3 * Reviewed by Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Fall 2012) * Reviewed by Reviews in American History, Vol. 40, No. 4 (December 2012) 2009 * The Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (paperback, 2015) * 2010 Outstanding Book of the Year Award, Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians * reviewed by CHOICE (Aug, 2009) * a masterful study * reviewed by The Weekly Standard (Aug 17, 2009) * extraordinary, richly textured, and beautifully illustrated * reviewed by Anglican and Episcopal History, vol. 78, no. 4 (December 2009) * a landmark work that will set the standard for church architecture studies for years * reviewed by The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 110, no. 1-2 (January 2010) * nuanced and insightful * reviewed by Fides et Historia vol. 42, no. 1 (Spring 2010) * a fine work of exacting and suggestive scholarship * highlighted in the Blackwell Companion to Religion in America (2010) * model study for its attention to multi-sensory material engagements * reviewed in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 51 (2010) Digital Issue * comprehensive with impressive interdisciplinary range * reviewed by Arris: Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 21 (2010) * wonderfully compelling and a model of vernacular methodology 2006 *American Sanctuary: Understanding Sacred Spaces, ed. Louis P. Nelson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006 * reviewed in Material Religion 3/2 (July 2007) * reviewed in Catholic Historical Review 93/3 (2007) * reviewed in Journal of Society of Architectural Historians 67/3 (September 2008) * reviewed by the Institute for Sacred Architecture ( Coeditor of The Vernacular Architecture of Charleston and the Lowcountry, a comprehensive field guide prepared for the Vernacular Architecture Forum s 15 th annual meeting, published as Jonathan H. Poston, The Buildings of Charleston: a guide to the city s architecture, (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina, 1997) Journal Editor: *Buildings and Landscapes: the journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum (University of Minnesota) * Senior Co-Editor, * the scholarly voice of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and a leading venue for research in the field since 1982 Articles/Essays/Definitions: * Architectural Education and Design and Colonialism (Caribbean) essays in Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, ed. Daniel Maudlin/Marcel Vellinga (Bloomsbury, 2018) 2018 Object Lesson: Monuments and Memory in Charlottesville Buildings and Landscapes (Fall 2018):

4 Contributor, Are Museums the Right Homes for Confederate Monuments? Smithsonian Magazine online: * Church Building and Architecture, in Jeremy Gregory, ed., Oxford History of Anglicanism, Vol. II, (Oxford University Press). * The Jamaican Plantation: Industrial, Global, Contested, in Cynthia Wall, David Gies, eds., The Eighteenth Centuries: Global Networks of Enlightenment, (University of Virginia Press, 2017), Architecture and Control in Places online: The End of an Era: On History, Context, and Confederate Monuments an interview with Sites of Conscience: * Propagating Ideas and Institutions: Religious and Educational Architecture in Alex Bremner, ed. Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2016), * British North America and the West Indies, in Alex Bremner, ed. Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2016), * The Falmouth House and Store: the Social Landscapes of Caribbean Commerce, in Bernard Herman and Daniel Maudlin, eds, Architecture of the British Atlantic World, (UNC Press, 2016), * Essay awarded Best Essay Prize, Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians, 2016 * Book awarded 2016 Allen G. Noble Book Prize by the International Society for Landscape, Place, and Material Culture * Book reviewed in Arris, 2016, vol Contributor, Art follows Empire: new scholarship in early American Art History, Perspective 2 (2015), published in English and French. Heritage Management on St. Eustatius: The Dutch West Indies Company Headquarters Project, by Grant Gilmore and Louis Nelson, in Managing the Past into our Future: Archaeological Heritage management in the Dutch Caribbean, Corine Hofman and Jay Haviser, eds. (Leiden University), * Material Religion in Early American Cultures in John Davis, ed., The Blackwell Companion to American Art (Wiley, 2014), * Architectures of West African Enslavement, Buildings and Landscapes: the Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 21 no. 1 (Spring 2014): * Awarded the 2015 Bishir Prize for excellence in vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes 2011 * The Architectures of Black Identity: Race, Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean and the American South, Winterthur Portfolio 45, No. 2/3, (Summer/Autumn 2011): *reprinted as The Architectures of Black Identity: Race, Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean and the American South, in ed. Barbara Mooney, Vernacular America (University of Chicago Press, 2014). 4

5 *cited as methodological exemplar in Timothy Davis, Passing the Torch: Landscape Studies in the Post-Jacksonian Age in J. Mendelsohn and C. Wilson, Drawn to Landscape (2015) 2009 * The Diversity of Countries: Anglican Architecture in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica, in Material Culture in Anglo-America: Regional Identity and Urbanity in the Tidewater, Lowcountry, and Caribbean, ed. David Shields (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009). * Reviewed by The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3 (July 2012) 2008 Two by Two: the Frontier Culture Museum InForm: Architecture and Design in the Mid- Atlantic (2008, no. 1): Preservation, People, and Place: The UVA Falmouth Field School in Historic Preservation CRM: the Journal of Heritage Stewardship (Winter 2008): Placing the Sacred: Reflections on Contemporary American Church Architecture Colloquium: journal of the Yale Institute for Sacred Music vol 4 (Autumn, 2007): * Sensing the Sacred: Anglican Material Religion in Early South Carolina, Winterthur Portfolio (Winter, 2007): * WINNER of the 2009 Southeast Society of Architectural Historians Article of the Year Award Architecture as Artifact: Period Rooms in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, The Magazine Antiques (January 2007): Architecture and Revivals, in The Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America I, ed. Michael McClymond, 2 vols. (Greenwood, 2007), * Anglican Church-Building and Local Context in Early Jamaica in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture X, ed. Alison Hoagland and Kenneth Breisch (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press), * reviewed in Historical Archaeology 41(2) 2005 Vernacular Architecture, in The Encyclopedia of the New American Nation. Edited by Paul Finkelman (New York: Scribners, 2005) Rediscovering American Sacred Space, Religious Studies Review 30:4 (October, 2004): * Building Cross-wise : Reconstructing Jamaica s Eighteenth-Century Anglican Churches Jamaica Historical Review, 22 (May, 2003), Building Confessions: Architecture and Meaning in Nineteenth-Century Places of Worship, Sacred Spaces: Building and Remembering Sites of Worship in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Virginia Raguin, (Holy Cross, 2002), * recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries and American Library Association s 2003 Leab Exhibition Award 1998 Contributor, The Installation of Historic Architecture at Winterthur: A Study of Cecil Bedroom, Bowers Parlor and Somerset Room (Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1998) Book Reviews: 5

6 2016 Vittoria dipalma, Wasteland: a history (2014), book review for Buildings and Landscapes (23, Spring 2016), Peter Benes, Meetinghouses of Early New England, book review for Buildings and Landscapes, (20, no. 1), Michael Olmert, Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies: Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic (2009), book review for Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 69, no. 2 (June 2010): Anne C. Loveland and Otis B. Wheeler. From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: a Material and Cultural History (2003), book review for Journal of Religion (October 2004) Donna Rilling, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, (2000), book review for Winterthur Portfolio 36 (Summer/Autumn 2001), Julie Nicoletta, The Architecture of the Shakers (1995), book review for the Vernacular Architecture Newsletter 89 (Fall, 2001), Annmarie Adams and Sally McCurry, ed. Exploring Everyday Landscapes: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, VII (1997), book review for Winterthur Portfolio, 34, no. 2/3, On-Line Lectures/Interviews Past Punditry: A12 The Story of Charlottesville (Aug 7, 2018) WPFW Community Watch and Comment (August 1, 2018) WPVC: The Progressive Voice of Charlottesville (Aug 5, 2017) Public Lecture on The Monument to Enslaved Laborers (March 6, 2016) Grants, Honors, and Fellowships Outstanding Speaker Award, UVA Office of Engagement 2015 Contributor, $1M grant, Ford Foundation to Sites of Conscience, for Preservation and Re- Interpretation of Maison des Esclaves, Goree Island, Senegal, West Africa 2013 Elected member of the Raven Society, UVA 2012 Rothermere American Institute Senior Research Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University 2011 ACSA / AIA Housing Design Education Award for ecomod/falmouth, shared with John Quale, Nancy Takahashi, and Paxton Marshall 2010 Jefferson Public Citizens Grant ($22,000) for "Falmouth: Community Development and Sustainable Heritage" 2009 Graduation Speaker, School of Architecture, UVA (selected by student ballot) 6

7 2008 Jefferson Trust Grant of $40,000 towards student fellowships for the UVA Falmouth Field School in Historic Preservation Graham Foundation Production Grant of $10,000 for The Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism and Architecture in Early South Carolina Vernacular Architecture Forum Ambassador Award * $2,000 of fellowship support for students attending the Forum s annual conference 2007 UVA Nominee, 2008 State Council on Higher Education in Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award * one of ten UVA faculty nominated for this prestigious statewide recognition University of Virginia All-University Teaching Award * one of nine faculty selected from across the University in all schools and disciplines Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant of $10,000 to support graduate student participation in the Falmouth Field School in Historic Preservation in Falmouth, Jamaica, summer Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant of $10,000 to support graduate student participation in the Falmouth Field School in Historic Preservation in Falmouth, Jamaica, summer Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Newberry Library, Chicago * annual research fellowship for sabbatical leave 2003 University Teaching Fellow * year-long fellowship program designed to assist our most intellectually sound and successful junior faculty members develop into exceptionally fine teachers 2003 University of Virginia, Summer Research Grant * field research on eighteenth-century Anglican architecture in the Leeward Islands with a team of historical archaeologists directed by Dr. Roger Leech from University of Southampton, England 2003 Katherine K. Leab & Daniel J. Leab Exhibition Award of the Association of College and Research Libraries * Division 2 (Moderately Expensive Printed Catalogs), for Sacred Spaces: Building and Remembering Sites of Worship in the Nineteenth Century (2002), in which I have an essay 2001 Faculty Development Grant, Center on Religion and Democracy at the University of Virginia * grant awarded for the inter-disciplinary graduate class, American Sacred Space 2000 Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship, Valparaiso University * One of three two-year postdoctoral fellowships for teacher-scholars in the Arts and Humanities who seek to renew and enrich their intellectual and spiritual lives while preparing for leadership roles in research and teaching University of Delaware Competitive Fellowship * Highly competitive (university-wide) unrestricted one-year research fellowship 1999 Lois F. McNeil Dissertation Fellowship, Winterthur Museum * Six-month research fellowship 1999 University of Delaware Excellence in Teaching Award. One of two graduate students selected from the College of Arts and Sciences Student nominated 7

8 1996 Summer Study Fellow, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Winston-Salem, NC 1989 Walford Architectural Scholar, College of William and Mary Competitive tuition scholarship awarded to an undergraduate dedicated to the study of architecture Teaching Experience University of Virginia ARH 988: Early American Architecture ARH 952: The Greater Caribbean ARH 952: Early Southern Architecture ARH 951: American Sacred Space ARH 800: Theories and Methods in Architectural History ARH 555: Field Methods in Historic Preservation ARH 556: Falmouth Field School in Historic Preservation ARH 491: Vernacular Architecture ARH 351/751: Early American Architecture ARH 105: An Introduction to the History of Architecture ARH 102: Renaissance to Post-Modern Architecture ARH 101: Prehistoric to Late Medieval Architecture ARH 242/ARTH 242/CCFA 201: Arts and Cultures of the Slave South Valparaiso University ART 101: History of Art, Ancient to Medieval ART 102: History of Art, Renaissance to the Present CC 205: Word, Image, Tone University of Delaware ARTH 267/HIST 267: American Art and the Religious Imagination ARTH 162: The History of Architecture Promotion, Program, and Publication Reviews 2017 Promotion to Full Professor, Department of History, UVA Promotion to Full Professor, Department of Anthropology, UVA Peer Reviewer, University of the West Indies Press Peer Reviewer, Buildings and Landscapes (Minnesota) 2016 Peer Reviewer, Material Religion (Bloomsbury) Peer Reviewer, Early American Literature Peer Reviewer, Buildings and Landscapes (Minnesota) 2015 Peer Reviewer, Material Religion (Bloomsbury) Peer Reviewer, Buildings and Landscapes (Minnesota) 2014 Peer Reviewer, Buildings and Landscapes (University of Minnesota Press) Peer Reviewer, Oxford University Press 8

9 International Advisory Board Member, Unspoken Issues in Architectural Education, an international conference held at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus Peer Reviewer, Yale University Press Chair, Academic Program Review, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, Winterthur, Delaware Member, Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award Committee Peer Reviewer, Yale University Press External Reviewer for Promotion to Full Professor, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University External Reviewer for Promotion to Associate Professor, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University External Reviewer for Promotion to Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin, Madison Chair, Internal Review Committee for Historic Preservation Program, UVA Graduate Student Supervision * signifies director *Eliza Hodgson, An American Arrangement: Understanding Jefferson s Public Displays of Art at Monticello (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) *Andrew Marshall, The Process of Improvement: The Post-World War II Negotiation of Public Services and Architecture in Virginia s Small Communities (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) *Katherine Watts, Behind the Gates, Doors, Fences, and Walls: Architecture as Social Control in Early Charleston (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) Katherine Crawford, Transient Painters, Traveling Canvases: Portraiture and Mobility in the British Atlantic, , (PhD Dissertation, Joint Program in Art and Architectural History, UVA) Camille Shamble, Growing Kids out of Doors: California s Open Air Schools and Children s Health, , (PhD Dissertation, Joint Program in Art and Architectural History, UVA) Hayden Bassett, The Archaeology of Enslavement in Plantation Jamaica, (PhD Dissertation, Archaeology, College of William and Mary) *Mical Tawney Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum: A Space of Amusement, Education, and American Citizenship (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) *Henry Hull, "Building the House: Materials, Construction, and Community in Virginia's Lancaster and Northumberland Counties, " (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) *Neal Wright, "The Inn Crowd: Early American Inn Rehabilitations as Local Economic Development Engines in Annapolis and Williamsburg." (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) *Erin Que, California Whimsy: Storybook Architecture in America, (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) *Mary Beth Derrick, William Jay: An English Architect in Charleston, South Carolina, (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) 9

10 *Peter Giscombe, The Architecture of the Marketplace and its Effect on American Urbanism: Boston MA, Newport and Providence, RI, (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) Katherine Wallace, Henry Ives Cobb, (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) Olivia Houck, William Morris in Iceland, (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) InaRaquel Miranda Vargas, Militarized Modernism in a Roosevelt Caribbean, (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) Hicks, Mary Ellen, The Sea and the Shackle: African and Creole Mariners and the making of South Atlantic Commercial Culture, , (PhD Dissertation, UVA History) Jennifer Anne Foy, Mapping Sympathy: Sensibility, Stigma and Space in the Long Eighteenth Century, (PhD Dissertation, UVA English) *Niya Bates, Blurred Lines: African American architecture and preservation in the Southwest Mountains Rural Historic District, (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) Katherine Schnurr, Navigating the Burgeoning Metropolis: The Williamsburg Bridge and Documentary Photography in the 1930s (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) *Emilie Johnson, System, Papa, in Everything: Plantation Networks in the Antebellum South, (PhD Dissertation, Joint Program in Art and Architectural History, UVA) Jason Fox, Palaces on Main Street: Thomas W. Lamb, Rapp & Rapp, John Eberson, and the Development of the America Movie Palace, (PhD Dissertation, Joint Program in Art and Architectural History, UVA) Nick Genau, Inventing Architectural Identity: The Institutional Architecture of James Renwick, Jr., (PhD Dissertation, Joint Program in Art and Architectural History, UVA) Lee Wilson. Masters of Law: English legal Culture and the Law of Slavery in Colonial South Carolina and the British Atlantic World, , (PhD Dissertation, Department of History, UVA) *Jennifer Elliott, The Neoclassical Backcountry: Architecture, Material Culture and Hybridity in the American South, , (PhD Dissertation, Joint Program in Art and Architectural History, UVA) Justin Faircloth, Memphis: Racism and Urban Form, (PhD Dissertation, Joint Program in Art and Architectural History, UVA) Whitney Martinko Progress through Preservation: History on the American Landscape in an Age of Improvement, (PhD Dissertation, Department of History, UVA) Philip Herrington, The Exceptional Plantation: Slavery, Agricultural Reform and the Creation of an American Landscape, (PhD Dissertation, Department of History, UVA) * Gray Graham, Pair Door Houses in the Valley of Virginia (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) *Arthur McLendon, Ye Living Building: Sprit, Space, and Ritual Encounter in Shaker Architecture (PhD Dissertation, Program in Art and Architectural History, UVA) Jessica Aberle (PhD Dissertation, Department of Architectural History, UVA) *Kathryn Lasdow, "'Conferred Distinction:' The Transformation of the Boston Waterfront in the Early Nineteenth Century (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) Laurin Goad, "Working for Education: School Facilities Funded by the Public Works Administration in Virginia" (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) Jennifer Hugman, From Country to City: The Bolling Haxall House and the Italianate Style in 19th Century Richmond (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) 10

11 Amy Moses "William B. Phillips: one of the best workman (MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) Alyssum Skjeie, "The Ibero-American Exhibition of 1929"(MA thesis, Department of Architectural History, UVA) Stephen James, Louis I. Kahn: Towards an Iconography of Memory (PhD dissertation, Architectural History, UVA) Henry Sharp, on the great falls of Patapsco River: a case study of Industry and Urbanism in late- Colonial and Early Republican Maryland, (PhD dissertation, Architectural History, UVA) Amanda Mushal My Word is My Bond: Honor, Commerce, and Status in the Antebellum South, (PhD dissertation, History, UVA) *Sarah Thomas, Slavery in Shenandoah County: Buildings and Landscapes (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) *Alison Ris, Schools in Hanover County from (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Lily Fox-Bruguiere, An Uncultivated Legacy: Jefferson s Botanical Garden at the University of Virginia (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Callie Williams, Euine Fay Jones: Architecture is invention-is innovation-but it is also remembering (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Katelyn Crawford, Negotiating Colonial Identity: The Material Angicization of Eighteenth-Century Charleston, South Carolina, (MA thesis, Art and Architectural History, UVA) Christa Dierksheide, The Amelioration of Slavery in the Anglo-American Imagination, (PhD dissertation, History, UVA) Stephanie Rufino The Art and Color of Jules Guerin (PhD dissertation, Art and Architectural History, UVA) Amy Finstein, Lofty Visions: The Architectural Intentions and Contrary Realities of Elevated Urban Highways in America, , (PhD dissertation, Architectural History, UVA) Elizabeth Milnarik, The Publically Funded American Dream: America s Public Housing Program as an Engine for Social Improvement, (PhD dissertation, Architectural History, UVA) Charles Rosenblum, The Architecture of Henry Hornbostel: Progressive and Traditional Design in the American Beaux-Arts Movement (PhD dissertation, Architectural History, UVA) Jennifer Van Horne, The Object of Civility and the Art of Politeness, (PhD dissertation, Art and Architectural History, UVA) * Jennifer Elliott Ga-ne-tli-yv-s-di (Change) in the Cherokee Nation: The Vann, Ridge, and Ross Houses in Northwest Georgia" (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) * Winner: Best Thesis Award * Kristin Hennings, Miss Rosie s House and the Jamaican Vernacular, (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) * Katherine Klepper West Indian Merchant Houses in the Nineteenth Century" (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) John Spelman Geographies of Death in Early Massachusetts (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Christopher Oliver Elevated and Pure Public Taste': The Membership Prints of the American Art-Union, (MA thesis, Art and Architectural History, UVA) Blythe Rowe Congressional Cemetery: The 21st Century Struggle of a 19th Century Cemetery (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Cartledge Blackwell ("High Church or High Style: Agendas underlying Antebellum Alabama's Upjohninspired Episcopal Churches" MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Rachel Gross, Spaces of Memory: Historic Synagogues as Museums and the Jewish Community, (MA thesis, Religious Studies, UVA) Danelle Feddes, Here Lie The Bodies: The Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cooperstown, New York, (MA thesis, Cooperstown Program, State University of New York College at Oneonta) 11

12 Paula Mohr, Artificial Constructions and Object Lessons in a Sacred Landscape: the art and architecture of central park, , (PhD dissertation, Architectural History, UVA) * Justin Faircloth The Square in Oxford: The Courthouse Square in the Fiction of William Faulkner (MA thesis, Art and Architectural History, UVA) * Elizabeth Hemsworth, Creating Colleges for Southern Women: Architecture and Academics in Transition at Randolph-Macon Woman s College and Sweet Briar College (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) * Paige Wagoner, Constructing Free Identity: The Invention and Adaptation of the Charleston Freedman s Cottage (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Lauren Miller, Creating an Industrial Landscape: Cotton Mill Villages in a North Carolina County, (MA Thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Margaret Grubiak, Preserving Religion in the Campus: Religious Architecture in the Modern American University, , (PhD Dissertation, Architectural History, UVA) * Daniel Ackerman, Free to Create: The Outward Expressions of an Inward Faith Jewish Synagogue Architecture in the 18th Century Americas (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Jillian Galle, Strategic Consumption: archaeological evidence for costly signaling among enslaved men and women in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake (PhD dissertation, Anthropology, UVA) Lydia Brandt, Variations on Mount Vernon: Replicas of an Icon as Vehicles for American Memory, (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) * Avrom Posner, Place, Program, and Spirit: Chautauqua as Sacred Space, (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) * Richard Sidebottom, Eighteenth-Century Building Production in the Northern Neck of Virginia (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) * Gwendolyn White, Jamestown, Virginia: a Seventeenth-Century Experiment in Urbanism, (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Bryan Greene, In the Shadow of Thomas Jefferson: the Architectural Career of Thomas R. Blackburn, with a Catalog of Architectural Drawings, (PhD dissertation, Architectural History, UVA) Catherine Kahl, Biltmore Village: Views from Above and Within, (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Heather Massler, The World with the Silver Lining: Architecture, Advertising & Reynolds Metals Company (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Michael Yengling, From Utility to Luxury: the Transformation of Twentieth-Century Industrial Architecture in Richmond, Virginia, (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Garrett Fessler, From Houses to Homes: an archaeological case study of household formation at the Utopia Slave Quarter, ca to 1775 (PhD dissertation, Anthropology, UVA) * Lindsey Gertz, Land use, settlement patterns, and black and white responses to the Low Country plantation landscape, , (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Roysin Billett, Inventing Fenwick: the development of a seaside resort on Connecticut's coast, , (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Walter Eayrs, Iron bars and genteel culture in Southeastern Massachusetts: the Development of the Oliver Estate and Ironworks in Middleborough, Massachusetts, , (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Karen Robbins, Inside the Row House: the Architectural and Social Transformation of Boston's South End, , (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) 12

13 Carrie Schomig, From England to America: Walter Gropius' Accommodation and Adaptation, , (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Monica Shenouda, Shifts in Representation: Venetian Cartography and the Emergence of the Tourist Map, (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) * Bryan Kessler, Constructing Memory: Louis I. Kahn and American Memorialization of the Holocaust (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) * Gerald Maready, Representing Samuel Sloan: Publicity and the Obtainment of Work for a Nineteenth- Century American Architect (MA thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Margaret Grubiak, Religion in the Campus: the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle at Yale University, (MA Thesis, Architectural History, UVA) Visiting Scholar and Professional Appointments Fall 2016 Summer 2011 Fall 2008 Summer present Juror, Humanities Connections Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington DC Visiting Scholar, University of North Carolina and Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Summer Institute, Winston-Salem, NC * directed independent research projects for 15 graduate students from diverse programs in public history, material culture, and museum studies * delivered lectures and field studies in the Lowcountry region of SC Mentor and host for Fulbright Fellow Ozgur Dincurek, vernacular architecture scholar from Cyprus Visiting Scholar, University of North Carolina and Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Summer Institute, Winston-Salem, NC * directed independent research projects for 15 graduate students from diverse programs in public history, material culture, and museum studies * delivered lectures and field studies in the Lowcountry region of SC Consultant to Measuring the Social, Spatial, and Temporal Dimensions of Virginia Slave Housing, a multi-year, interdisciplinary initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Board of Directors, Vernacular Architecture Forum Summer present 2005-present Slavery. Visiting Scholar, University of North Carolina and Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Summer Institute, Winston-Salem, NC * directed independent research projects for 15 graduate students from diverse programs in public history, material culture, and museum studies * delivered lectures and field studies in the Chesapeake region of VA and MD Board of Directors, Falmouth Heritage Renewal * Private, non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and restoring the historic buildings of Falmouth, Jamaica, while improving the lives of residents Collaborating Scholar, DAACS: Digital Archaeological Archives of Comparative * Web-based initiative designed to foster inter-site, comparative archeological research on slavery throughout the Chesapeake, the Carolinas, and the Caribbean 13

14 Summer 2003 Summer 2002 Visiting Scholar, Nevis Heritage Project, University of Southampton s Archaeological Field School on Nevis (Leeward Islands), West Indies * together with teams of Southampton students, recorded historic churches and houses of both the former white elite and the Afro-Caribbean majority * directed teams of students through the processes of building recordation, building survey, and oral history Visiting Scholar, University of North Carolina and Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts Summer Institute, Winston-Salem, NC * directed independent research projects for 15 graduate students from diverse programs in public history, material culture, and museum studies * delivered lectures and field studies in Charleston, South Carolina Historic Preservation Initiatives 2015 Historic Preservation Advisor, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience International Team, Maison des Esclaves, Dakar, Senegal * supported by of $1M from Ford Foundation 2010 Faculty Advisor to Oasis on the Horizon: Recommendations for Falmouth a heritage tourism recommendations project for Falmouth, Jamaica International Peer Reviewer for ICOMOS World Heritage Nomination for Bridgetown, Barbados 2009 Director, Historic Preservation Field School, Falmouth Jamaica. Summer Historic Structures Report, Waterfront Warehouse, Oranjestadt, St. Eustatius 2008 Director, Historic Preservation Field School, Falmouth Jamaica. Summer Director, Historic Preservation Field School, Falmouth Jamaica. Summer Juror, Historic Preservation Book Prize, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA 2006 Director, Historic Preservation Field School, Falmouth Jamaica. Summer Director, Historic Preservation Field School, Falmouth Jamaica. Summer Director, Historic Preservation Field School, Falmouth Jamaica. Summer 2004 The field school, limited to UVA students who completed ARH 555: Field Methods in Historic Preservation, was geared to recording historic structures in Falmouth, Jamaica. This coastal town, laid out in the late eighteenth century, was recently identified by ICOMOS as an important threatened historic site The Brafferton of the College of William and Mary: a historic structure report. Complete HSR written for the College of William and Mary in conjunction with the Department of Architectural Research at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation present Member, Albemarle County Historic Preservation Committee Committee appointee for presentation of oral arguments to the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and Albemarle County Planning Commission for policy changes to Albemarle County s Rural Areas Plan for increased protection of county s historic rural commercial architecture 14

15 1999 The President s House of the College of William and Mary: a historic structure report. Complete HSR written for the College of William and Mary in conjunction with the Department of Architectural Research at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Co-author, The Mansion Houses of Eighteenth-Century Delaware, a National Register Historic District Proposal developed for the Historic Preservation Office of the State of Delaware 1998 Sir Christopher Wren Building: review of construction, 1697 to 1931, abbreviated historic structures report prepared for Quinn Evans Architects, Washington DC, in preparation for the Wren Building Preservation, Renewal, and Replacement Project, Public Lectures and Exhibitions 2018 In all the Luxury of Indolence: Architecture and Material Cultures of Comfort, the 2018 Mount Vernon Symposium, Mount Vernon, Virginia Panelist, Are Museums the Right Home for Confederate Monuments? American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ Visualizing Slavery at UVA UNESCO International Conference on New Interpretations of Slavery at Museums and Sites, Charlottesville, VA Design and Construction at UVA, at conference Thomas Jefferson s Architecture: New Approaches, UVA Charlottesville, VA 2017 Architecture and Empire in Jamaica, Plenary Lecture, Ireland, The British Empire, and the Caribbean, a symposium at University College, Dublin, Ireland. Opening Panelist and Session Chair, Universities, Slavery, Public Memory, and the Built Landscape, UVA Making Room: Cartography, Collecting, and the Construction of Empire Keynote, Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA Race, Memory, and Monuments after Charlottesville, University of Delaware Slavery and UVA s Academical Village invited lecture, Wilton House, Richmond, Va. The Atlantic Origins of the Charleston Single House, invited lecture for the Charleston Heritage Symposium, Charleston, SC St. John s Lutheran and Material Religion, invited lecture at St. John s Lutheran, Charleston, SC Session Co-Chair, The Global and the Local in Vernacular Architecture Studies, Society of Architectural Historians, Glasgow, UK Respondent, Architectural History in the 21 st Century, Society of Architectural Historians, Glasgow, UK Architecture and Empire in Jamaica, Georgian Society of Jamaica, London, UK 2016 Keynote Panelist, Designing Memory Architecture Exchange East, Richmond, VA. 15

16 Bedchambers and Hospitality in Jamaica, invited paper at Form Function and Furnishings: Bedchambers in the 18 th Century Atlantic World Stenton House, Philadelphia Architectures of West African Enslavement 2016 Donald R. Torbert Lecture, Department of Art History, University of Minnesota Panelist, Contemporary and World Art 50 th Anniversary Symposium, University of Delaware, Department of Art History Classicism in Jamaica Glave and Holmes Classical Institute, Richmond, Virginia Architecture and Empire in Jamaica, invited lecture for the Jamaican Georgian Society, Falmouth, Jamaica The University of Virginia as a Landscape of Slavery at the annual meeting of International Sites of Conscience, Dakar, Senegal Architectures of West African Enslavement Invited Lecture for Architectures of Democracy a conference hosted by Gunston Hall, Virginia Architectures of West African Enslavement, Invited lecture, University of Iowa Falmouth, JA: Architecture as History, an invited lecture at the annual symposium of the Archaeological Society of Jamaica, University of the West Indies, Mona (Kingston, Jamaica) Building Research, Keynote for the 2015 Huskey Graduate Research Exhibition, UVA Landscapes of Exchange: Merchant Houses, Wharves, and Commercial Streets in the Greater Caribbean a peer reviewed paper presented at Architectures of Trade, the 9 th Savannah Symposium, Savannah, Georgia Landscapes of Slavery: Wharf Districts of the Atlantic Slave Trade an invited paper to be presented at The Global City: Past and Present, an international conference at St. Andrews University, Scotland Architectures of Empire in Jamaica: the Scottish Connection, an invited lecture University of Edinburg, Scotland The Jamaican Sugar Plantation: Improvement, Industry, and Control a seminar presented to the seminar on World History, Cambridge University, England Architecture and Empire in Jamaica, a seminar presented to the Architectural History Seminar, Oxford University, England 2014 The Jamaican Campeachy, a peer-reviewed paper selected for presentation at Delight and Design in Material Life, the annual conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, held in Winterthur, Delaware Architectures of Empire in Early Jamaica, invited lecture for Objects of Empire, an international conference hosted by the Rutgers British Studies Center, Rutgers University Landscapes of Rice, An invited lecture for the Reign of Rice lecture series, Brookgreen Gardens, SC 16

17 St. Michael s, Charleston and early Anglican Material Religion, an invited lecture at Building a Handsome Church, a Tercentenary Symposium, the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts A Blackamoor Figure and the British Imperial Imagination, Society of Early Americanists Conference, London, England Improvement and Resistance on Early Jamaican Sugar Plantations, Beyond Sweetness: an interdisciplinary conference, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Landscapes of Leisure/Landscapes of Labor: Early Jamaica Public lecture, University of Virginia Carolina Gold, a keynote lecture for The Lowcountry Rice Culture Forum, Charleston, SC The Jamaican Plantation: Industry, Empire, and Resistance an invited paper for XVIIIth Centuries: an interdisciplinary conference, held at University of Virginia Architecture and Empire in Jamaica, Faculty Seminar presentation, Joint Program in Art and Architectural History Du Simitiere: Palladio in the British Colonies, an invited lecture for Vitruviana 2013, an annual conference in Charleston, South Carolina 2012 Material Religion in Early American Art, a paper presented at Religion in American Art, the annual conference of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art held at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts (CASVA), Washington, DC Coffle, Castle, Deck, Block A paper presented at Shadows of Empire a conference sponsored by the Department of History, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana. Landscapes of Exchange: Merchant Houses of the Greater British Caribbean Invited lecture for the Oxford University Architectural History Seminar, Oxford, England Colbeck Castle: Differentiating Colonialisms in the Americas Invited lecture for the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, England The Architecture of Early Jamaica an invited lecture for the Friends of the Georgian Society of Jamaica, London, England 2011 Sensing the Sacred an invited keynote at the 27 th annual SCAD Conference, Savannah, GA Marginal Constructs: the architecture of the early British Caribbean, an invited lecture for the Department of Art History, College of William and Mary 2009 The Beauty of Holiness: Architecture and Anglicanism in Colonial South Carolina, the annual keynote lecture for the Preservation Society of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Marginal Interests: the early architecture of the Caribbean, an invited lecture for the Department of Art History, University of Delaware 2008 Culture, Crisis and Context: Eighteenth-Century Port Towns in the Greater British Caribbean an invited lecture for the Port Cities Conference, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 17

18 The Nature of Sacred Space, an invited lecture for Architecture Exchange East, AIA, Richmond, Virginia The Architectures of Freedom, a juried paper presented at the 2008 MESDA Conference on American Material Culture, Winston-Salem, North Carolina The Colonial Piedmont, Plenary Lecture, annual meeting, Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians, Greensboro, North Carolina The Architectures of Black Identity: Buildings, Slavery, and Freedom in the Caribbean and the American South, invited lecture for the symposium Objects in Motion: Art and Material Culture across Colonial North America, University of Delaware Building Place: Regionalism in Early American Architecture, invited lecture for the 2008 Williamsburg Antiques Forum, Williamsburg, VA Archaeological Counterpoint: Eighteenth-Century Plantation Domestic Architecture in Jamaica and the Chesapeake, a paper co-authored with Jillian Galle and Fraser Neiman delivered to the 2008 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, DC 2007 Invited Guest Juror, Sacred and Cultural Studies Studio, Catholic University School of Architecture Rediscovering Sacred Space, an invited lecture delivered to the School of Architecture and Planning at Catholic University Rediscovering Sacred Space: Worship, Architecture, and Meaning in 20th century America, an invited lecture presented at Sacred Space: Architecture for Worship in the 21 st Century, a conference sponsored by Yale University Archaeological Counterpoint: Jamaica and the Chesapeake in the 18th century, Louis Nelson, Jillian E. Galle, and Fraser D. Neiman, a paper presented to the annual meeting of the Society of Historical Archaeologists, Williamsburg, Virginia Invited discussant, Religious Landscapes of the Caribbean, a session to be presented to the annual meeting of the Society of Historical Archaeologists, Williamsburg, Virginia Things Creole: Material Cultures of Interaction in the Early American South and Greater Caribbean, session co-chair at the annual meeting of the Society of Early Americanists and the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Faculty Respondent, Aftermath: The Cultural response to Catastrophe, the 2006 annual graduate student symposium for the University of Virginia Program in Art and Architectural History 2006 Anglican Church Architecture and Social Order, a paper to be presented at the Southern Historical Association s annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama The Beauty of Holiness: St. Michael s Church in Charleston, an invited lecture at Decorative Arts in the Age of Enlightenment, the 2006 annual meeting of the Art and Antiques Forum, Charleston, South Carolina The Redemption of Place, Keynote Lecture for the Annual Cornerstone Awards in Historic Preservation, Chattanooga, Tennessee 18

19 Participant, Theology of the Built Environment, a seminar of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia 2005 Material Religion in the Low Country, an invited scholars lecture at the MESDA Summer Institute, Summer 2005, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Sensing the Sacred, presented at the Newberry Seminar in Early American History and Culture, Spring, 2005, Chicago, IL 2004 Sacred Geometries: Continuity and Change in South Carolina s Anglicanism, an invited paper delivered at Sterling Faith: 300 Years of Charleston s Sacred Silver, a symposium at the Charleston Museum, Fall 2004, Charleston, SC Session Chair, Constructing and Confronting Identities: Architecture and the Black Experience in Nineteenth-century Jamaica and the Caribbean, Gordon Conference, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Fall 2004, Winston-Salem, NC. Presented in absentia. Word, Shape, and Image: Anglican Constructions of the Sacred, Newberry Fellows Seminar, Fall 2004, Chicago, IL Session Chair, Architectural Space, Religious Thought, and Cultural Change, Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting, Spring 2004, Harrisburg, PA 2003 Accommodation and Invention: Anglican Architecture in the New World. An invited paper to be presented at the 2003 annual meeting of the Ecclesiological Society at the Royal Institute of British Architects, Fall 2003, London, England. Anglicanism and Colonial Diversity. An invited lecture, Fall 2003, Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol, UK. The Question of Colonial Regionalism in the Greater British Caribbean. A paper to be presented at the 2003 annual meeting of the Pioneer American Society, Fall 2003, Bridgetown, Barbados 2002 Carolina-Caribbean Connections?: a case study of eighteenth-century Anglican architecture in South Carolina and Jamaica. A paper presented at, Material World of Tidewater, the Lowcountry, and the Caribbean, conference sponsored by the program in the Lowcountry and the Atlantic World at the College of Charleston, Summer Building a Holy City: Churches in Early National Charleston. A paper presented at the 2002 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians. Crossing Borders: Religion and Cultural Geography of Colonial American Visual Culture. A paper presented at the 2002 annual meeting of the College Art Association Reconsidering Design and Construction at St. Michael s. An invited paper presented in Charleston for the St. Michael s 250 th Anniversary Lecture Series., Fall Anglican church-building and local context in early Jamaica. A paper presented at the 2001 annual meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Spring 2001, Newport, Rhode Island. The Seen and the Unseen: Re-visualizing the Sacred in South Carolina s Eighteenth-Century Anglican Architecture. A paper presented at the 2001 annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians. Anglican Architectures: Transatlantic Rhetoric and Local Authority in Early Modern Jamaica. 19