Samuel Palfreyman
“The Landscape of Modern Mormonism: Understanding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through its Twentieth-Century Architecture”
- Title “The Landscape of Modern Mormonism: Understanding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through its Twentieth-Century Architecture”
- Email spalfrey@bu.edu
- Education BA in Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
BA in American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
I doubled majored in Architecture and American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley intending to become an architect while also researching Mormon history and the built environment. Between my freshman and sophomore year, I spent two years doing missionary work in Singapore and Malaysia where I learned to speak and write Bahasa Malaysia (Malay). Following graduation, I worked for a sustainable architectural firm in San Francisco before being accepted into the American & New England Studies Program to pursue a PhD. During the summers, I have worked first as an intern and then as a fellow with the National Park Service’s Heritage Documentation Programs to create Historic American Buildings Survey reports for buildings on Liberty Island and Ellis Island in New York and the 1933 Mormon Chapel located on Sixteenth Street in Washington DC. I am currently researching and writing my dissertation on the Mormon Church’s twentieth century escalation of building meetinghouses, temples, and other buildings in conjunction with its expanding missionary program in the United States and beyond as an example of an American institution’s ambitions of global growth.
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