Dell Upton
B.A., Colgate University, 1970 David A. Harrison Professor of Anthropology and Architecture Dell Upton teaches courses on American and world architecture and urbanism, architectural-history theories and methods, material culture, theories of everyday life, public space, and issues of cross-cultural spatial formation in the post-colonial world. Mr. Upton is interested in the ways that cultural, social, aesthetic, and cognitive theories can enrich the study of architectural history. His five books and many articles range from a study of colonial Virginia churches to critiques of New Urbanism and heritage tourism to, most recently, Architecture in the United States, a volume in the Oxford History of Art series. Mr. Upton’s books have won the Society of Architectural Historians’ Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, the American Studies Association’s John Hope Franklin Award, the Vernacular Architecture Forum’s Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, and the Louisiana Literary Award. In recent years, Mr. Upton’s scholarly work has focused on urban life and culture. He was a consultant and principal catalogue essayist for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861 (2000) and he edited Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans (1996), the diary of a young woman in antebellum New Orleans. Mr. Upton is currently completing a book on urban life and landscape in the antebellum United States and working on a book on civil-rights memorials and urban politics in the American south.
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