FIELDS
OF SPECIALIZATION
Historic preservation planning,
cultural resource documentation, vernacular architecture, industrial
archaeology,
urban historical geography,
environmental planning, cultural landscapes, geographic information systems
EDUCATION
Clark
University, Graduate School of Geography, M.A. 1982, Ph.D. 1988. Dissertation:
“Landmark and Shelter: Domestic Architecture in the Cultural Landscape of the
Central Uplands of Massachusetts in the 18th Century”
Clark
University, B.A. cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1975 (Travelli Scholar, Jonas Clark
Scholar 1971-75)
PROFESSIONAL, RESEARCH AND
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Director,
Preservation Planning Division, Massachusetts Historical Commission
(2002-present)
Survey
Director, Massachusetts Historical Commission (1989-2002)
Manuscript
Reviewer (1989-present), Johns Hopkins University Press, University of
Tennessee Press, Journal of Historical Geography, Great Lakes Geographer,
Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Old-Time New England
Principal
Consultant (1992-93), Center for Historic Architecture and Engineering,
University of Delaware, National Endowment for the Humanities grant project,
"Architectural Patterns and Process in the United States Landscape, 1795 -
1801"
Research
and Editorial Consultant (1988), Massachusetts Historical Commission: prepared
individual property, district, and community‑wide nominations of
properties for the National Register of Historic Places including:
Historical
Geographer (1986‑7), Atlas of Massachusetts, Department of Geology
and Geography, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: coordinator of research
for Atlas section on the evolution of the Massachusetts cultural
landscape
Consulting
Geographer (1986‑7), Old Sturbridge Village Research Department,
Sturbridge, MA: developed computer mapping component for National Endowment for
the Humanities grant project, "Rural Economic Life in Central
Massachusetts, 1790‑1850"
Historical
Geographer (1983‑1985), Massachusetts Historical Commission, State Reconnaissance
Survey: Member of research team that produced town and regional reports based
on field and documentary research for eighty‑five Massachusetts cities
and towns to identify historic resources and recommend planning priorities
Geographer
(1984), National Park Service, Blackstone Canal Heritage Park Project:
conducted historical research relating to Massachusetts and Rhode Island
communities along the nineteenth‑century canal (since included in the
Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor)
Documentary
Historian (1980‑81), Shattuck Farm Archaeological Survey, Andover, MA:
documented 250 years of agricultural land use and architectural development for
a farmstead complex
Research
Associate (1980‑81), Worcester Three‑Decker Architectural Survey,
Worcester, MA: member of team that undertook
field and documentary inventory of over three‑thousand surviving
three‑deckers in Worcester
Geographer
and Coordinator (1978‑1979), Massachusetts Historical Commission, State
Cultural Resources Management Plan Project: developed comprehensive, state‑wide,
cultural resources protection plan
Graduate
Research Assistant (1975‑1977), Graduate School of Geography, Clark
University: Desertification Monitoring Project, Man and the Hydrologic Cycle
Project, Reconstruction Following (Earthquake) Disaster Project
Internships
(1975), Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission, Worcester, MA;
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Water Resources
Planning, Washington, D.C.
ACADEMIC
EXPERIENCE
Lecturer
(Summer 1998), Massachusetts Dept of Education Teacher Institute on Historical
Interpretation, Technology and the Nineteenth Century Workplace
Guest
Lecturer, Boston University Preservation Studies Program, Harvard University
Graduate School of Design, University of Technology - Loughborough, UK
Visiting
Instructor (Fall 1991), Geography Department, Clark University
Visiting
Lecturer (Spring 1987), Geography Department, University of New Hampshire
Instructor
(1985), Geography Department, Clark University:
Instructor
(1981), College of Professional and Continuing Education, Clark University
Instructor
and Associate Director (1977‑1979), Explore Your America: a summer
cross‑country environmental education program for high school students
Graduate
Teaching Assistant (1975‑1976, 1979‑1981), Graduate School of
Geography, Clark University
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
(contributor
and co-editor, with Bernard L. Herman) Landscapes Lost and Found:
Architecture and Place in a New Nation (Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press, forthcoming)
(contributing
author) Joseph S. Wood, The New England Village. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press (1997)
Review
of James M. Lindgren, Preserving Historic New England: Preservation, Progressivism,
and the Remaking of Memory, in The New England Quarterly 69, 3
(September 1996), 506-508
(with Joseph S. Wood) "A World We Have Gained: House, Common,
and Village in New England," Journal of Historical Geography 18,1
(1992), 105-120 (Special Issue on the Invention of Tradition in America)
(with
Joseph S. Wood) "Walden" in Geographical Snapshots of North
America, Donald G. Janelle (ed.), New York: The Guilford Press, 1992
"A
Popular Planet," "City Sprawl," and "Coastal Calamity"
in The State of the Earth Atlas,
Joni Seager (ed.) New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990
"Rethinking
Geographical Approaches to the Common House: The Evidence from Eighteenth
Century Massachusetts" in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture III, Bernard Herman and Thomas Carter (eds.),
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989
(with
Peter Stott et al.) Historic and Archaeological Resources of Cape Cod and
the Islands (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1987)
(with
Claire Dempsey et al.) Historic and Archaeological Resources of Central
Massachusetts (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1985)
"Report
on Documentary Research, Shattuck Farm, Andover, Massachusetts" in An
Archaeological Survey and Documentary History of the Shattuck Farm (Boston:
Massachusetts Historical Commission Occasional Publications 2, 1981)
(with
Joni Seager) Cultural Resources in Massachusetts: A Model for Management
(Washington: United States Department of Interior, Resource Protection Planning
Series, 1979)
RECENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
AND ACTIVITIES
Vernacular
Architecture Forum
Preservation Officer, Executive Committee, Board
of Directors (ex-officio), 1997-2002
Society
for Industrial Archeology
Southern
New England Chapter President, National Board of Directors (ex officio),
1992-1998
Southern New England Chapter Vice-President and
Program Chair, 1990‑91
National
Park Service Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Study - Advisory Committee, 2000
Massachusetts
Department of Environmental Management Historic Landscape Preservation Grant
Program
Statewide Advisory Committee,
2001-present