Landscapes of Succession: Paper Sessions VAF 2019
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Session I - 8:00 - 9:30 am
BUILDING COMMUNITY
Chair: Betsy Cromley, Professor Emerita, School of Architecture, Northeastern University
Anna Andrzejewski, Professor, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Building Community in Nalcrest, A Florida Retirement Haven for Postal Carriers
Jonathan Farris, Asst. Professor, Department of Art, Youngstown State University, On Crandall Park: Settling a Jazz Age Suburb in Youngstown, Ohio
Katherine L. Farnham, Senior Architectural Historian, AECOM; Courtney L. Clark, Architectural Historian, AECOM; Samuel A. Pickard, Historian, AECOM, Landscape of Evolution: African American Landscapes in Sussex Co., Delaware
Michael R. Allen, Senior Lecturer, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art, Washington University in St. Louis, Historic Preservation and Uneven Development
RURAL LIFE
Chair: Warren Hofstra, Professor, History, Shenandoah University
Travis Olson, Architectural Researcher, City of Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation, Division of Planning and Preservation, Folk Farmsteads on the Frontier: The Formation of the ‘American’ German-from-Russia Farmhouse
JR Thuot, Professor of History, Université du Québec à Rimouski. Life and Death of the Seigneurial Environment in Canada’s St. Lawrence Valley, 1700-1970
Derong Kong, Teaching and Research Assistant, Tsinghua University. The Dong Oral Architecture: Carpenter, architecture and phenomena among the Dong people in southwest of China
Huaqing Huang, Associate Research Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Manufacturing the Industrial Countryside: Capital, Labor and the Making of Modern Tea Factories in Rural China, 1880-1980
SHAPING PUBLIC MEMORY
Chair: Daves Rossell, Savannah College of Art and Design
James Giesen, Associate Professor, History, Mississippi State University, The View from Rose Hill: Succession, Memory, and Erasure on a South Carolina Plantation
Jennifer J. Lauer, Graduate Research Assistant, SUNY ESF Center for Cultural Landscape Preservation, Designing the Counter Narrative: Confronting Social and Ecological Violence at Rose Hill
Windy Zhao, Assistant Professor, School of Design, Louisiana Tech University, The Meaning of 100,000: The Confrontation between Vernacular Tradition and National Heritage
Shreya Ghoshal, Research and Teaching Assistant to Professor Erica Avrami, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, Bde Maka Sla: Layers of Significance and Interpretation
ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES
Chair: Michael J. Chiarappa, Professor of History, Quinnipiac University
Sally McMurry, Professor Emerita of History, Penn State University, The American farm pond: toward a cultural, environmental, and landscape history
Dana Cress, Architectural Historians, GAI Consultants, An Erased Landscape
Tessa Evans, Ph.D. Candidate, American History, University of Tennessee, Black Landscapes in the Southern Frontier: Geographic Literacy and Fugitive Slave Activity in Arkansas, 1820-1865
Session II - 10:00 - 11:30 am
MEMORIALIZATON
Chair: Dell Upton, Professor, Architectural History, University of California at Los Angeles
Margaret Grubiak, Associate Professor of Architectural History, Villanova University, Gumby Jesus' on an Arkansas Mountaintop: A Surprising Landscape of Hate
Valentina Rozas-Krause, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, Demanding Apologies: Memorializing the World War II Japanese American Incarceration at the Tanforan Assembly Center
Arijit H. Sen, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Medians and Memorials as Everyday Commemorative Sites of Grassroots Resistance
Desiree Valadares, Ph.D Candidate, Architectural History, University of California at Berkeley Commemorating World War II Landscapes of Confinement in British Columbia, Canada
AMERICAN IMMIGRANT IDENTITY
Chair: Clifton Ellis, Associate Dean of Research & Faculty Development and Elizabeth Sasser Professor of Architectural History, Texas Tech College of Architecture
Priya Jain, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Associate Director, Center for Heritage Conservation, College of Architecture | Texas A&M University, What’s in a name? Hillcroft Avenue to Mahatma Gandhi District
Alec Stewart, Masters’ Candidate, Masters of Science in Historic Preservation, Clemson University and College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, From Swap Meet to Mall: Latinizing Southern California’s Multi-Ethnic Swap Meets
Anisha Gade, Associate, Economic & Planning Systems, Inc., Oakland, California, Negotiated Visibility: Asian American Spaces and Identity Formation in Silicon Valley
RECREATION AND TOURISM
Chair: Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, Associate Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University
PJ Carlino, Ph.D. Candidate, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University, Bleacher Bugs and Fifty-Centers: The Design of American Baseball Stadium Seating, 1880-1920
Roy Malcolm Porter, Jr., Historic Preservation Planner, City of Tulsa, Oklahoma, On the Bourbon Trail: Distilleries as Industrial Sites and Vacation Destinations
Cynthia Falk, Professor of Material Culture, Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University of New York College at Oneonta, Cooperstown, New York, Forever Wild at Sagamore
Ian Stevenson, Ph.D. Candidate, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University, Enshrining the Civil War Vacation: Union Veterans, Familial Legacy, and the 103rd OVI Campus at Sheffield Lake, Ohio
FIELD NOTES
Chair: Ruth Little, Longleaf Historic Resources, Raleigh, NC
Laura Grotjan, Ph.D. Candidate, Michigan Technological University, The Addition of Leisure Spaces: Porch Additions in a Northern Michigan Community
Christine Henry, Assistant Professor, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, On the Straight and Narrow: The Alleys Connecting Fredericksburg’s Courthouse and Jail
Milena Metalkova-Markova, Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, Bulgari, Vernacular architecture as an exploration ground for art, architecture and preservation relationship
LUNCH ROUNDTABLE - 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
DOCUMENTING SENSE OF PLACE
Chair: Elijah Gaddis, Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University
Gabrielle Berlinger, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Folklore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lauren Graves, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art & Architecture, Boston University,
Rachel C. Kirby, Ph.D. Candidate, American & New England Studies Program, Boston University
Sydney Varajon, Ph.D. Candidate, English with a concentration in Folklore, Ohio State University
Comment: Bernard L. Herman, George B. Tindall Professor of Southern Studies, American Studies, University of North Carolina
Session III - 1:00 - 2:30 pm
SHAPING THE CITY
Chair: Jim Buckley, Associate Professor, Chair in Historic Preservation, School of Archiecture and Environment, University of Oregon
Kristin Hankins, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, Yale University, Litter Lenses: Trash, Photography, and Space in Philadelphia
Audrey Kelly, Teaching Assistant for Course: Architecture and Music, Department of Architectural History, University of Virginia, Culture and Consumption: Representations of the Tenement Housing Type and the Progressive Era Idea of the Racial/Ethnic Other
Tamsen Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Hekma School of Design and Architecture, Dar Al-Hekma University, “Burn Those Places Down”: Arson and the Transformation of Chicago’s Slaughterhouse Landscape, 1860s-1890s
Kate Howard, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, The Vacant Structure Problem: The Success of Baltimore City’s Programs and Policies at Creating Healthy Blocks without the Loss of Historic Integrity in the Upton Neighborhood
DOMESTIC LIVES
Chair: Diane Harris, Senior Program Officer, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Valentina Davila, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Architecture, McGill University, Venezuelan Domestics and the Representations of God in their Quarters
Kimberly Gultia, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Architecture, McGill University, Butler, Valet, Maid, and Cook: The Place of Domestic Workers in the Spanish Colonial Home of the Philippines (1848-1900)
Tania Gutierrez-Monroy Ph.D. Candidate, School of Architecture, McGill University, Domestic Geographies at War: Ephemeral Architectures Built by Women during the Mexican Revolution
Sishachila Imchen, Ph.D. degree recipient, University College London, Experience, Memory, and the Perpetuation of the Morung in Nagaland
ROADS, INDUSTRY, AND RECREATION
Chair: Tim Davis, Senior Historian, Historic Structures & Cultural Landscapes Program, National Park Service
Alyssa Kreikemeier, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, Boston University, A Wild Road: The History and Promotion of the Beartooth Highway
David Salmanson, Springside School/SCH Academy, Philadelphia, Roads Map Power: Cold War Landscapes in Western New Mexico
Aaron Ahlstrom, Ph.D. Candidate, American & New England Studies Program. Boston University, Landscapes of Beauty and Profit: The Development and Design of Massachusetts State Forests and Parks, 1904-1929
Taylor Rose, Ph.D. Candidate, History, Yale University, The "Opening of the Clackamans": Multiple Use Geography and Log Truck Politics in the Oregon Cascades
INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUILDING MATERIALS
Chair, Andrew Dolkart, Professor of Historic Preservation, Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Fredric Quivik, Quivik Consulting Historian, Inc., Central Stations v. Isolated Plants and the Development of a Middle-Class Neighborhood in Philadelphia
Michael Holleran, Director, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and Associate Professor, School of Architecture University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, Pueblo Water, City Water: Los Angeles zanjas, 1781 – 1904
Robin Williams, Department of Architectural History, Savannah College of Art and Design, Municipal Infrastructure as Social Construct: How Street Pavement Experiments before 1930 Resulted from Citizen Engagement, Civic Progressivists and Skilled Craftsmanship
Kateryna Malaia, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, A Unit of Homemaking: Prefabricated Panel and Domestic Architecture in the Late Soviet Union.
Session IV - 3:00 - 4:30 pm
NEW METHODS AND RECORDS
Chair: Jennifer Baughn, Chief Architectural Historian at Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi
William Littmann, Senior Adjunct Lecturer, California College of the Arts, The Long Walk as a Method for Studying the Cultural Landscape
Sarah Faye Scarlett, Assistant Professor of History, Social Sciences Department, Michigan Technological University, Digital Spatial Technologies
Nicole Valois, Professor, School of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Montreal, Pedestrian spaces of the New Town of Villeneuve d’Asq: Interacting Archives and Sketches
EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURE
Chair : Dale Gyure, Professor, Architecture, Lawrence Technological University
Laurin Goad Davis, Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, Pennsylvania State University, Traditional and Progressive?: Open-Air Schools in the South, 1911-1930
Jaime Gomez, Ph.D. Candidate in Architecture, University of California at Berkeley, Total and Equal: Cuba´s Rural Boarding Schools and the Search for Equality
TRADITION AND MODERNITY
Chair: Rachel Leibowitz, Co-Director, Center for Cultural Landscape Preservation, Co-Director, Center for Cultural Landscape Preservation, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Elizabeth Edwards, Masters’ Candidate, Preservation Design, Savannah College of Art and Design, Preserving Imprinted History on Vernacular Architecture
Irene Appeaning Addo, Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Traditional Earth-Constructed Houses in Tamale, Ghana: Tradition, Identity and Modernity
Leila Saboori, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Challenges and Possibilities in the Making of Modern Middle Eastern Oil Cities
Joseph Priya, Ph.D. Candidate, Manipal University, Karnataka, India, and Pithamber R. Polsani, Faculty, Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, India, Sculpted Bricks and Ionic Volutes: The Making of Indian Vernacular Architecture
PHILADELPHIA
Chair: Aaron Wunsch, Assistant Professor, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Clappin, Architectural Historian, Moreland Altobelli Associates, LLC, Suburb of God: The Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Speculative Real Estate Development, and the Creation of Catholic Communities in Delaware County, PA
Grey Pierce, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, University of Chicago, A History and Memory of Philadelphia Gay Bathhouses.
Anthony R.C. Hita, Architectural Conservator, LimeWorks.us, The “Model” Church: Mid-19th Century Germantown as Interpreted through Sloan’s First Baptist Church of Germantown
