I spent my childhood building Lego castles in the sky. I spent the next fifteen years learning everything I could about them from great teachers, great books, and buildings and environments themselves. I aspire to inspire my students into a life-long curiosity about the environment that we create and live in. Through my scholarship, I share my discoveries and hypotheses with a wider audience.

Recent activities include reviewing an article for the UK-based journal, Urban History; reviewing student submissions for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (hosted by IC in Spring 2011); participation in a panel hosted by the Caribbean Students Association at IC; a paper presentation, “German Prefab in the Colonies: Between Modernism, Tradition, and Religion,” at the Society of Architectural Historians conference in New Orleans, LA in April 2011; and a month-long research visit at the Deutsches Architekturmusem, Frankfurt in summer 2011.

In my Fall 2011 courses, students will:

• Explore historic houses in Ithaca
• Learn to find sources on local and global architectural history
• Diagram, map, and propose a new building for The Ithaca Commons
• Connect with local architects, landscape architects, planners, and historic preservationists
• Tour an internationally-renowned architecture firm and the National Building Museum in Washington DC