Architectural History

2000

Co-director, fourth, sixth and seventh Savannah Symposiums on Architectural History, assessment coordinator for the Department of Architectural History, director of the Annual Architectural History Lecture Series

Fulbright Fellowship for dissertation research in Kenya, Phi Beta Kappa

Society of Architectural Historians, Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, International Association for the Study to Traditional Environments, Vernacular Architecture Forum

• June 2004 "Globalization and the Medieval Swahili City" Globalization and Urbanization in Africa, Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm (eds.), Africa World Press
• June 2002 Co-author of the Instructor's Manual and Student Workbook for Art History, Volume 1, by Marilyn Stokstad, Prentice Hall.
• Jan. 2001 "Cross-Cultural Currents: Swahili Urbanism in the Late Middle Ages" in Hybrid Urbanism: On Identity and Tradition in the Built Environment, Nezar AlSayyad (ed.), Greenwood Press.

• ARLH 211 Survey of World Architecture and Urbanism
• ARLH 325 Islamic Art and Architecture
• ARLH 344 African Art and Architecture
• ARLH 363 World Vernacular Architecture
• ARLH 510 Architecture of World Cultures
• ARLH 743 Islamic Art and Architecture
• ARLH 744 African Art and Architecture
• ARLH 757 The Islamic City
• ARLH 763 World Vernacular Architecture

1996

Adjunct assistant professor, University of Oregon & PSU Joint Architecture Program; adjunct assistant professor, Portland State University; instructor, Clackamas Community College, Portland Community College; instructor, Marylhurst College; instructor, Pacific Northwest College of Art; assistant professor, Oregon School of Architecture and Design; research Assistant, Princeton University (C. Rapkin); assistant-in-instruction, Princeton University

Served as president of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians; co-founder of Veritas Academy (a Christian classical school in Savannah)

Georgia Humanities Council grant for fifth Savannah symposium: Building in the Public Realm; presidential fellowship, SCAD; Georgia Humanities Council grant for third Savannah symposium: Commemoration and the City; Calvin College seminars in Christian scholarship fellowship, "New Urbanism and Communities of Faith"; Georgia Humanities Council Grant for the symposium on the city square; William G. Bowen Fellowship (Princeton University stipend); Fulbright-Hays/Spanish Government scholarship (for study in Spain); Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities (additional support for study in Spain); Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship (for work on U.Va. excavations at Morgantina, Sicily); Princeton University Fellowships; Omicron Delta Kappa, University of Virginia honorary society for leadership; Tau Sigma Delta, Texas Tech University honorary society for engineering

College Art Association, Renaissance Society of America, Society of Architectural Historians, Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians

• Co-editor, Commemoration in America. University of Virginia Press (forthcoming).
• "Reforming Church Architecture." New Horizons (February 2011), 6-7.
• Brief commentary essay in David R. Coffin, Magnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens. Edited by Vanessa Bezemeer Sellers. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
• Co-Editor, Arris: The Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (volumes 13-15)
• "Review of James Donald, Imagining the Modern City," H-Urban, H-Net Reviews, July, 2000.
• "Gates of Glory." Via 12: The University of Pennsylvania Architectural Journal (2000).
• Review of Catherine Wilkinson-Zerner, Juan de Herrera: Architect to Philip II of Spain, in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 54 (1995): 375-376.
• Associate Editor, The Princeton Journal: Thematic Studies in Architecture vol. 3, Canon, Princeton Architectural Press, 1989.
• Editor, Modulus: The University of Virginia Architectural Review vol. 17, Rizzoli International, 1984.

• ARLH 208 Modern Architecture II: 1900-Present
• ARLH 236 European Architecture: 1400-1750
• ARLH 306 Reading Urban Form
• ARLH 308 History of Urban Form
• ARLH 309 Villa and Garden
• ARLH 401 Architectural Theory and Criticism
• ARLH 775 Savannah: Architecture and Urban History

2004

Ph.D., Columbia University, dissertation title: "Travels and Traversals in Hellenistic Architecture"; teaching experience: Columbia University (undergraduate), Rutgers University (undergraduate and graduate), University of Notre Dame (undergraduate)

Dissertation, teaching commendations for every semester or quarter taught

2009 Georgia Humanities Council grant for city of Savannah "Weave a Dream" Grant; managing committee board member, Archaeological Institute of America; Georgia Humanities grant (in support of "Building in the Public Realm" conference); Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship; Mellon Fellowship, Columbia University; President's Fellowship, Columbia University; Summer Travel Fellowship, Columbia University

College Art Association, Society of Architectural Historians, Archaeological Institute of America

Publications

• Co-editor and contributor, World Heritage and National Registers in Perspective, University of Ottawa Press.
• CAA review of Tony Spawforth. The Complete Greek Temples London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. and Alexander Tzonis and Phoebe Giannisi. Classical Greek Architecture: The Construction of the Modern.Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2004.
• Contributor, Eclectic Antiquity: The Classical Collection of the Snite Museum of Art
• Peer reviewer for Arris journal, ancient architecture

Public lectures and symposia

• Symposium panelist, Pioneer Valley Romanists Forum, Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
• "Hadrian Panhellenios and the Crafting of Monument as Memory" Midwest Art Historians Conference, Omaha, Nebraska
• "The Sacrificial Word at Hadrianic Klaros", A Symposium in Honor of Natalie Boymel Kampen, Barnard College, New York, New York
• "Armchair Cosmopolites and Worldly Travelers: The Dialogue between Real and Vicarious Travel in the Greco-Roman World", Session chair, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California
• "World Heritage and National Registers in Perspective," conference organizer (35 participants representing 16 countries), Savannah, Georgia
• "The Ancient World", Session Chair, Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Auburn, Alabama
• "The Development of the Savannah Waterfront", Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Savannah, Georgia
• "Building in the Public Realm", Conference organizer (28 participants representing 12 countries), Savannah, Georgia
• "Hellenistic Art and Architecture", University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina
• "The Resonance of Myth in Klarian Architecture and Ritual", Archaeological Insitute of America annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana

"Two former professors: Natalie Boymel Kampen and Robin Rhodes."

• ARLH 206 Modern Architecture I: 1750-1900
• ARLH 321 Ancient Architecture in Context
• ARLH 401 Architectural Theory and Criticism
• ARLH 455 History of Gender and the Built Environment
• ARLH 755 History of Gender and the Built Environment
• ARLH 724 Ancient Architecture in Context

2011

Lecturer, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts; visiting assistant professor and adjunct professor, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts; adjunct professor, Brandeis University, Boston, Massachusetts; adjunct professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

Nomination, Excellence in Teaching Award, Northeastern University, 2010-11

• Nomination, Excellence in Teaching Award, Northeastern University, 2010
• Henry Luce Foundation and Royal Fellowship Dissertation Research Award, 2006
• Henry Luce Foundation Research Travel Fellowship, 2005
• Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association Research Grant, 2005
• Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Grant, 2005
• Edith O'Donnell and George Bush Presidential Library Foundation Grant for Presidential Studies, 2004
• Presidential Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001-2006.

Society of Architectural Historians, College Art Association, American Historical Association

Publications:

• Review: "The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Birthplace." The Public Historian, vol. 32, no. 4, Nov. 2010: 160-68.
• "Bernini's 'Medusa' and a History of Art," Thresholds 28, Winter 2005: 76-86.
• Co-Editor with Erika Naginski, "'Concerto Barocco': Essays in Honor of Henry A. Millon," Thresholds 28, Winter 2005.

Presentations:

• "Architecture and Citizenship: Debt, Delusion, and the 21st C. Economy," Critical Localities lecture series, Wentworth Institute of Technology, July 2011.
• "Nixon's Third Term: History, the Post-Presidency, and the Presidential Library After Watergate," paper presented at the Richard Nixon and the Making of Modern America conference, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, May 2009.
• "Towards Accessible Judgment: The Presidential Library and the Pursuit of Public Obligation," paper presented at Future of the Archive / Archive of the Future, Visual Studies Conference, University of Rochester, May 2007.
• "Archive as Gift, Stewardship as Law: Preserving Presidential Records and Artifacts," paper presented at Heist, the Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art, March 2007.
• "Presidential Libraries and the Uncertain Archive: Histories and Futures," paper presented at the Lost Highway Expedition Symposium on the Archive, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 2006.
• "Unread Nixon and the Library Within: Pedagogy, Display, and the Limits of Biography," paper presented at the Politics of the National Imagination session of the Research in Progress Symposium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 2006.

My professors and curious students

• ARLH 206 Modern Architecture I: 1750-1900
• ARLH 208 Modern Architecture II: 1900-Present
• ARLH 307 American Architecture and Urbanism
• ARLH 308 History of Urban Form
• ARLH 739 History of Urban Form
• ARTH 240 Treasures of Provence

1997

Director, "Savannah and the Lowcountry," Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting, March, 2007

Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) Meeting Grant, 2007; Humanities Council of South Carolina for South Carolina components of "Savannah and the Lowcountry," the 28th Annual Meeting of the VAF, 2007; Presidential Fellowship for faculty development, SCAD, 2006; VAF Meeting Fieldwork Grant, 2005-7; VAF Ambassadors Fellowship, 2005; Georgia Humanities Council Grant for the fourth Savannah Symposium: Architecture and Regionalism, 2005; Georgia Humanities Council Grant for the third Savannah Symposium: Commemoration and the City, 2003; Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, SCAD, 2001; Hagley Museum and Library Grant-in-Aid , 1997; VAF Student Fellowship, 1996; Society for the History of Technology Young Scholar Travel Grant, 1995; Society of Architectural Historians Domestic Tour Student Fellowship, 1991; Sigmund Martin Heller Traveling Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1990-91; Graduate Humanities Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 1989; Grant-in-Aid, Department of Architecture, University of California, 1989; Graduate Student Instructor Course Improvement Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 1988; Honorable Mention, Hooker Architectural History Essay Competition, Turpin; Bannister Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Albany, New York, 1988; Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1986-87; President's Undergraduate Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1984-85

American Historical Association, American Studies Association, Society of Architectural Historians, Society for the History of Technology, Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vernacular Architecture Group (UK)

Books
Savannah and the Lowcountry: A Guidebook for the 28 th Annual Meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum . Savannah: Savannah College of Art and Design, 2007. Co-edited with Marisa C. Gomez. 520pp. for guidebook and 40pp. for mapbook.

Articles
"Calm," Lead thematic essay for The Thirteenth Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence, an essay contest addressing architecture as a social art with the theme for 2011 of "Valuing the Sacred," http://www.berkeleyprize.org/ launched September 15, 2010.

Book reviews

• Marc R. Mantrana, Lost Plantations of the South (2009). Journal of Southern History 76:4 (November 2010), 1096-1097.
• Bryan Clark Green, In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn (2006). Winterthur Portfolio 44:1 (Spring 2010), 130-132.
• Catherine W. Bishir, and Michael T. Southern, A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina (1996); Catherine W. Bishir, and Michael T. Southern. A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina (2003); Catherine W. Bishir, Michael T. Southern, and Jennifer F. Martin, A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina (1999). Arris: Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians 16 (2005): 84-85.
• Maureen Dillon, Artificial Sunshine: A Social History of Domestic Lighting (2002); John A. Jakle, City Lights: Illuminating the American Night (2001); Dietrich Neumann, Architecture of the Night: The Illuminated Building (2003). Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 64:3 (September 2005): 383-387.
• W. Barksdale Maynard, Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850 (2002). Journal of American History. 92:1 (June 2005): 211-212.
• Dreck Spurlock Wilson, ed. African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945 (2004). CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship v.2:1 (Winter 2005): 100-3.
• James A. Throgmorton, Planning as Persuasive Storytelling: The Rhetorical Construction of Chicago's Electric Future (1996); Harold L. Platt, The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930 (1991); David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology (1990); Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century (1988). Metropolis v.16:7 (April 1997): 105-7.
• Mark H. Rose, Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America (1995). The Journal of Urban Technology v.3:3 (Summer 1996): 106-9.

Papers and other scholarly presentations

• "Creolization as a Continuing Process in the Georgia and South Carolina Lowcountry," Vernacular Architecture Forum 2011 Annual Meeting, Falmouth, Jamaica, June 2011.
• "In Large Things Discovered: Hidden Treasures Before Our Very Eyes," Savannah College of Art and Design Historic Preservation Department Preservation Week lecture, May 4, 2011.
• Session Chair and commentator, "Spirituality in the Experience of Urban Spaces," 7 th Savannah Symposium: Spirituality of Place, Savannah, GA, February 17-9, 2011.
• "Ordinary Distinction: Pine Gardens and Mid-Century Savannah," Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians 2010 Annual Meeting, Chattanooga, TN, October 2010.

"Research, writing."

• ARLH 206 Modern Architecture I: 1750-1900
• ARLH 208 Modern Architecture II: 1900-Present
• ARLH 211 Survey of World Architecture and Urbanism
• ARLH 307 American Architecture and Urbanism
• ARLH 310 American Vernacular Architecture
• ARLH 361 American Cultural Landscape
• ARLH 501 History of Modern Architecture
• ARLH 705 Architectural History Methodology and Historiography
• ARLH 740 American Architecture and Urbanism
• ARLH 745 American Vernacular Architecture
• ARLH 761 American Cultural Landscape

1996

Assistant Editor of Gesta, journal of the International Center of Medieval Art, The Cloisters, New York: January 1991 to January 1994; research fellow, Medieval Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992-1994

Vice President, Coastal Georgia Historical Society 2006 - present; board member, Friends of Wormloe State Historic Site 2005 - present; American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies Grant: 1994; Chester Dale Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1993 - 1994; Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1992 - 1993; Walter W. S. Cook Fellowship: 1991 - 1992; Amy Briggs Baldwin Scholarship: 1991 - 1992; Shelby and Leon Levy Travel Fellowship: 1989; Jacob K. Javits Fellowship: 1987 - 1991; Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society: 1987

National Trust for Historic Preservation, Coastal Georgia Archaeological Association, Tybee Island Historical Society, US Coast Guard Auxiliary, Reserve Officers Association

• "Seeking Institutional Identity in the Chapterhouse of Sigena," in Shaping Sacred Space and Institutional Identity in Romanesque Mural Painting: Essays in Honor of Otto Demus, ed. Thomas Dale (Pinder Press, 2004).
• "Forts Clinch and Gaines: Anomalies in Third System Philosophy," Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 2003.
• "Chapterhouse Decoration Before 1250," Arte Medievale, n. 1-2, 1997 (published 1999) Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.
• "A Victorine Biblical Primer in the Chapterhouse of Sigena," Research Group on Manuscript Evidence inaugural symposium, Barnard College, April 1995.
• "A Marginal Menagerie in the Chapterhouse of Sigena," Twenty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1994.
• Contributing author, The Art of Medieval Spain, A. D. 500-1200, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1993).

• ARTH 282 Medieval Art and Architecture
• ARLH 150 Architectural History in Savannah
• ARLH 408 Monastic Architecture of the Western World
• ARLH 726 Gothic Art and Architecture
• ARLH 728 Romanesque Art and Architecture
• ARLH 756 American Fortified Architecture

1993

Professor, department of art history, SCAD, 1993-96; chairman and professor, department of architectural history, SCAD, 1996-present

Creating the department of architectural history in 1995 and serving as its chairman ever since; creating and directing the Virtual Historic Savannah Project, 1996-2006; securing National Endowment for the Humanities and Georgia Humanities Council grants totaling $210,000

Awards

• Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, Savannah College of Art and Design, Summer 2005
• Inclusion in the annual "40 under 40" professional leaders as selected by The Savannah Business Report and Journal, vol. 5, issue 24 (Feb. 24-Mar. 2, 2003): 13
  
• Citation of Excellence from the Savannah Chapter, American Institute of Architects, for the Virtual Historic Savannah Project, 2002
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access, Implementation grant ($150,000) for the Virtual Historic Savannah Project, 2002
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Public Programs, Special Projects Planning grant ($50,280); and Georgia Humanities Council grant ($9,766) both for the Virtual Historic Savannah Project, 2000
• Georgia Humanities Council Public Programs Grant ($2,000) and Samuel Kress Foundation Foreign Participant Grant ($2,500), both for the Savannah Symposium on the City Square, 1999
• Listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 4th ed. (1996)
• School of Arts and Science Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1992
• Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1991
• Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1990
• Isaac Perry Essay Prize, Turpin Bannister Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians, 1990
• Thomas Ustick Walter Essay Prize, Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians, 1989
• Non-Service Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1989
• Teetzel Graduating Fellowship in Art History, University of Toronto, 1986
• Teetzel Traveling Award in Art History, University of Toronto, 1986
• Sidney Key Memorial Scholarship for Academic Achievement, University of Toronto, 1986
• Robson Scholarship in History, University of Toronto, 1985

Boards and committees

• Member, K-12 Education Committee, Society of Architectural Historians, 2010-present
• Member, Historic District Board of Review, City of Savannah, 2010-2012
• Member, Board of Directors, Society of Architectural Historians, 2007-2010
• Member, SACS QEP Academic Committee, SCAD, 2008-2009
• Member, Alice Davis Hitchcock Award Committee, Society of Arch. Historians, 2008
• Member, Founders' Award Committee, Society of Architectural Historians, 2007
• Reviewer, Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants Review Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC, 2007, 2009
• Member, Consulting Committee, Owens-Thomas House Slave Quarters Interpretation project, Savannah, 2006-present
• Member, Historic District Ordinance Revisions Committee, Metropolitan Planning Commission, City of Savannah, 2001-2004; 2008-2009
• Board Member, Georgia National Register Review Board, 1999-2002; Chairman, 2001-2002
• Chair, SACS Criteria VI (Administrative Processes) Accreditation Committee, SCAD, 1997-98

Consulting, off-campus programs, exhibitions

• Consultant, Glynn County Board of Education, Brunswick, GA, 2008 - documentation, research and guidance re. moving the Old Glynn Academy Building
• Off-Campus Trips to New York, SCAD, 1999-2004; director, 2001, 2003
• Director, Off-Campus Trips to Canada, SCAD, 1996, 1997, 1998
• Faculty Liaison (lead faculty), Lacoste, France, fall 2005
• Co-curator, "Jewels in the Crown: The Architecture of the Savannah Plan" exhibition, The Octagon Gallery (AIA), Washington, DC, Nov. 2000-Jan. 2001

Society of Architectural Historians, Southeastern Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, College Art Association, Georgia Historic Society, Historic Savannah Foundation

Select publications

• "The Pantheon in the 19th Century" chapter in The Pantheon (working title), eds. Tod Marder and Mark Wilson Jones (Cambridge University Press). Forthcoming.
• "Harold Allen Brooks" [obituary], Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 70, no. 1 (Mar. 2011), 3-4.
• "Savannah Plan" and "William Jay" entries, The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
• "Savannah" entry, Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, ed. Ray Hutchinson (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference Publications, 2009).
• Review of Ashley Callahan, ed. Georgia Inside and Out: Architecture, Landscape, and Decorative Arts, for the CAA.reviews (posted Jan. 28, 2008).
• "Evolution and Adaptation: The Savannah Plan and its Impact on Architectural Development," in Vernacular Architectural Forum 2007, Savannah and the Lowcountry: Field Guide for the 28th annual meeting, eds. Marisa C. Gomez and E.G. Daves Rossell  (Vernacular Architectural Forum, 2007), 50-53.
• "An architectural symphony without a soloist: an historical overview of Savannah." SAH News: Society of Architectural Historians, Newsletter, vol. XLIX, no. 6 (Dec. 2005): 6-8.
• "Colonial Architecture: Overview" entry, New Georgia Encyclopedia (Georgia Humanities Council and University of Georgia Press, 2004).
  
• "Savannah College of Art and Design: Architecture Program" entry, New Georgia Encyclopedia (Georgia Humanities Council and University of Georgia Press, 2004).
  
• "The Image of Secular Power: The romanità of Italian State Architecture under the Sinistra, 1876-90," in Guglielmo Calderini: La costruzione di un'architettura nel progetto di una Capitale, ed. Giorgio Muratore (Perugia, 1996): 9-23
• "Roma Capitale: Image and Myth. Glimpses of Research in Progress. Introduction" (Proceedings of Symposium at the Canadian Academic Centre in Italy), Annali Accademici Canadesi 8 (1992): 5-8 and 15-16
• "An Unsung Protagonist of Roma Capitale: The Ministry of Public Instruction and Its Documents at the Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome," Annali Accademici Canadesi 8 (1992): 97-105
• "First Unitarian Church and School, Rochester, New York, 1959-69," in Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture, ed. David B. Brownlee and David G. De Long (New York, 1991), 340-45
• Catalogue entries on Piranesi's views of pilgrimage churches and obelisks in: Piranesi, Rome Recorded: A Complete Edition of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Vedute di Roma from the Collection of the Arthur Ross Foundation, ed. Malcolm Campbell (Philadelphia, 1989; rev. ed., 1990), cat. nos. 4, 5, 6, 16, 21, 25, 40, 46, 47, 54, 55, 86, 87, 117, 122

Conference papers

• Oct. 2009, Southeast Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) Annual Conference, Jackson, Mississippi: "The Curious Case of Savannah Pavement"
• Oct. 2007, Southeast Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee: "Reflections on Urban Change: Patterns of Destruction and Preservation in Downtown Savannah"
• Oct. 2004, Southeast Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) Annual Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee: "Savannah Houses: Towards a Definition of Local Typologies"
• Jul. 2004, Organization of American Historians: 2004 Southern Regional Conference, Atlanta: "Virtual Historic Savannah Project"
• Feb. 2002, 2002 Georgia Statewide Preservation Conference, Macon, Georgia: "Saving the Charles Ellis Elementary School in Savannah"
• Apr. 2001, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Toronto: "Towards a Non-Linear Exploration of Architectural History: The Case of the Virtual Historic Savannah Project"
• Oct. 2000, Southeast Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) Annual Conference, Lexington, Virginia: "Not Another Paper on the Savannah Plan"
• Feb. 2000, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City: "Secularizing the Pantheon in the Service of Politics"
• Sep. 1999, Association for History and Computing, London: "Documenting Urban Form and Transformation in 4D: The Virtual Historic Savannah Project"
• Jul. 1999, Syllabus99 conference, Santa Clara, California: "Using V.R.M.L. - the 3-D language of the internet - as a learning tool: The Virtual Historic Savannah Project"
• Oct. 1998, 52nd National Preservation Conference, Savannah: educational session chair and presenter, "Animating the Past: The Virtual Historic Savannah Project"
• Aug. 1997, International Conference of Society of Industrial Designers, Toronto: "The Savannah College of Art and Design: An Alternative Urban Campus" (case history presentation)
• Feb. 1997, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City: "The Victor Emanuel Monument on the Capitoline: From a Controversial Site to a Site of Controversy"
• Sep. 1995, Guglielmo Calderini: la costruzione di un'architettura nel progetto di una Capitale conference, Rome: "La romanità dell architettura dello stato sotto la Sinistra"
• Mar. 1995, Third Meeting of the International Society for the Classical Tradition, Boston: "In Caput Mundi: The Tradition of Secular Architectural Iconography on the Capitoline"
• Mar. 1994, Antiquity and Antiquity Transumed: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Toronto: "From the Renaissance to Antiquity in the Risorgimento"
• Dec. 1993, Roma speculum mundi? Traditions and Ideas of Rome in the Interplay of Myth, Iconography, History and Political Liturgy between Risorgimento and Fascism conference, Rome: "In Search of a Political Platform: The Site Debate for the Victor Emanuel Monument"
• Apr. 1993, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina: "Pantheon Possessed: Antiquity as Propaganda in Late 19th-Century Rome"
• Apr. 1992, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico: "In Caput Mundi: The Tradition of Secular Architectural Iconography on the Capitoline"
• Feb. 1992. Roma Capitale: Image and Myth symposium, Canadian Academic Centre in Italy, Rome: "Creating the National Capital: The Urban Works of the Royal Italian Government"
• Apr. 1990, 13th Annual Whitney Symposium on American Art, New York City: "Drawing on History: Louis Kahn's Sketches for his First Unitarian Church"

Conference session chairing

• Apr. 2011, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, New Orleans: Session Chair, "Architecture and Race in the Southern City" session
• Oct. 2010, Southeast Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) Annual Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee: Session Chair, "Savannah"
• Oct. 2008, Southeast Chapter, Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) Annual Conference, Greenville, North Carolina: Session Chair, "Constructing Race Relations in the New South" session

Select invited presentations

• Historic Savannah Foundation: "A History of Savannah at the Cutting Edge," May 11, 2010
• Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Savannah: "Savannah: A Model of Humane Urbanism and Architectural Subtlety" (introductory address), Apr. 26, 2006
• Panelist, "Moving Historic Houses" Roundtable, Historic Savannah Foundation, May 3, 2005
• Presenter, "Learning from Savannah" Roundtable, AIA Regional and Urban Design Knowledge Community, Washington, DC, Apr. 1, 2005
• 18th-Century Studies Association Annual Meeting, Savannah: "Savannah's Urban and Architectural Identity in the 18th and 19th Centuries" (keynote address), Mar. 5, 2004
• Panelist, "Should We Protect Architecture of the Recent Past?" Roundtable, Historic Savannah Foundation, May 3, 2004
• American Cultural Resource Association Annual Meeting, Savannah: "Virtual Historic Savannah Project" (plenary address), Oct. 26, 2002
• Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Savannah: "Savannah Squares and 19th-Century Architecture" (plenary address), Mar. 7, 2002
• SEASECS, Savannah: "An Introduction to Savannah's Architectural History" (plenary address), Mar. 2, 2000
• North Carolina Association of Art Educators Annual Meeting, Wilmington, North Carolina: "Using New Technology to Explore the Heritage and Legacy of Savannah" (keynote address)

"Sharing my passion for understanding the built environment."

• ARLH 206 Modern Architecture I: 1750-1900
• ARLH 208 Modern Architecture II: 1900-Present
• ARLH 213 Documenting the Built Environment
• ARLH 307 American Architecture and Urbanism
• ARLH 308 History of Urban Form
• ARLH 404 Power and the Built Environment
• ARLH 450 Research Methods in Architectural History
• ARLH 700 Research Methods in Architectural History
• ARLH 739 History of Urban Form
• ARLH 740 American Architecture and Urbanism
• ARLH 759 Power and the Built Environment

• Virtual Historic Savannah Project
• Departmental of Architectural History blog

2011