William D. Moore
Associate Professor of American Material Culture
- Title Associate Professor of American Material Culture
- Office 226 Bay State Road, Room 207
- Email moorewd@bu.edu
- Phone (617) 353-9913
- Education AB, Harvard University
MA, PhD, Boston University
Research Areas: American material culture; cultural landscape studies; vernacular architecture; American folk art; American Fraternalism; the Shakers and American culture.
Selected Publications:
Shaker Fever: America’s Twentieth-Century Fascination with a Communitarian Sect (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020).
Masonic Temples: Freemasonry, Ritual Architecture, and Masculine Archetypes (University of Tennessee Press, 2006). Paperback edition released 2014.
William D. Moore and Mark A. Tabbert, eds. Secret Societies in America: Foundational Studies of Fraternalism (Cornerstone Book Publishers, 2011).
“’You’d Swear They Were Modern’: Ruth Reeves, the Index of American Design, and the Canonization of Shaker Material Culture,” Winterthur Portfolio 47 (1)(Spring 2013), 1-34.
For a detailed academic bio and CV, please see Professor Moore’s Department Profile.