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ArchitectureALICE Y. TSENG725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 210C Assistant professor, Japanese art and architecture; B.A., Columbia University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University Professor Tseng joined the faculty of Boston University in fall 2004. Her specialization encompasses the art and architecture of Japan, with particular focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Specific topics of research interest are the history of institutional buildings, collections, exhibitions, and transnational and transcultural connections between Japan and Euro-America. She offers lecture courses on the arts of Asia; the arts of Japan; and modern Japanese architecture; and seminar courses on Japanese print culture; the Edo-Meiji transition; and constructs of the Japanese art canon. Professor Tseng has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art), and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute (Harvard University). She is a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the 2006-07 year, and the recipient of the 2006 Founder’s Award from the Society of Architectural Historians for her article “Styling Japan: The Case of Josiah Conder and the Museum at Ueno, Tokyo.” Her book on the Imperial Museums of Japan is forthcoming from the University of Washington Press. CLAIRE DEMPSEY 226 Bay State Rd., Rm 104 Director, Preservation Studies Program,Associate Professor of American and New England Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. AM, Wheaton College; MA, Boston University. Professor Dempsey has taught architectural history and research methods courses in the Preservation Studies Program since 1991. She has conducted preservation research within the compliance, identification, and evaluation areas for the Massachusetts Historical Commission and for a number of cities, towns, and research institutions. Research for New England area museums and historic sites has complemented her preservation work, for clients including the Haverhill Historical Society; Old Sturbridge Village; the Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, MA; the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, Ledyard, CT; and the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley Heritage Corridor (National Park Service). Ms. Dempsey is the author of Building Hardwick: Community Histories in Landscape and Architecture, co-author of The Historical and Archaeological Resources of Central Massachusetts and The Historic and Archaeological resources of Cape Cod and the Islands, and contributor to Building Portsmouth: the Neighborhoods and Architecture of New Hampshire's Oldest City (1992) and The Early Architecture and Landscapes of the Narragansett Basin (2001). She serves as archivist for the Vernacular Architecture Forum and as president of its New England Chapter. MELANIE HALL725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 205A Director of Museum Studies; Associate Professor; B.A., University of Leeds Melanie Hall is an Associate Professor, teaching courses in American and English architecture and preservation, decorative arts, and Museum Studies. She is currently the Director of Museum Studies. She joined the department in 1999 and has had extensive experience of museums and historical agencies. She studied Fine and Decorative Art History at the University of Leeds. Her career began as research assistant at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds City Art Galleries, York. For many years she worked for the Historic Monuments and Buildings Commission for England on a nation-wide survey of historic houses and towns. She has lectured on this work at Maddingley Hall, University of Cambridge, University of Leeds, Univeristy of Hull, and as a specialist lecturer to the National Trust. Prior to coming to the United States she was Senior Lecturer in Heritage Studies at Nottingham Trent University. Prof. Hall is co-founder and director of the International Preservation Forum, which brings together specialists from many countries. She is an expert advisor to the Heritage Memorial Fund (England), the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, and Antiques America. Her publications include over 30 historic districts and towns reports for the British government, articles and reviews in Furniture History, Architectural History, and Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society. Her recent work on the origins of the English National Trust is in publication with Yale University Press, Studies in British Art series. Her current research focusses on museums dedicated to poets and writers, and landscape preservation in New England and England. She is a contributor to the Buildings of England series and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. KEITH N. MORGAN725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 210A Director of Graduate Studies, Professor; American and European Architecture. B.A., The College of Wooster; M.A., Winterthur Program of the University of Delaware; Ph.D., Brown University A scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century American and European architecture, Professor Morgan is interested in the relationships between architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture. Professor Morgan has taught at Boston University since 1980. He has served as the director of the Preservation Studies Program and of the American and New England Studies Program and as the chairman of the Art History Department on two occasions. He is a former national president of the Society of Architectural Historians. His recent publications include Shaping a New American Landscape: The Art and Architecture of Charles A. Platt, Boston Architecture, 1975-1990, which he coauthored with Professor Naomi Miller, and a new introduction for the republication of Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect. He is the editor and one of the principle authors for Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston and serves as the architecture editor for The Encyclopedia of New England. He has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Buildings of the United States project, several committees for the restoration of historic landmarks and is a trustee of the Hancock Shaker Village. PAOLO SCRIVANO725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 202C Assistant Professor; Modern Architecture; D.Arch., Ph.D., Politecnico di Torino Paolo Scrivano joined Boston University after having taught at the Politecnico di Milano (1997-2001) and at the University of Toronto (2002-2007). He graduated in Architectural History from the Politecnico di Torino in 1992 and, from the same university, received a PhD in History of Architecture and Town-Planning in 1997. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995), Post-doctoral Fellow at the Politecnico di Torino (1997-99), Visiting Scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (2002), Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art (2003), and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant recipient (2005-08). JESSICA SEWELL725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 305A Assistant Professor, Art History and American Studies; American Material Culture, Architecture, Gender and Architecture, B.A. Harvard University; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Professor Jessica Sewell has been teaching at Boston University since 2003. She is a scholar of American material culture, and gender and architecture. Her classes include Sex, Gender, and Architecture; Studies in American Material Culture; Introduction to Architecture; and many others. She has taught at the Binghamton University and New York University. Her current book project is Gendering the Spaces of Modernity: Women and Public Space in San Francisco, 1890-1915, and she has published articles on gender and urbanism in a number of recent anthologies. |
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| Boston University Department of Art History | August 17, 2007 |