Acting Director and Lecturer; Preservation Studies Program
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In addition to being a lecturer at Boston University, C. Ian Stevenson is Director of Advocacy for Greater Portland Landmarks, a non-profit historic preservation organization in Portland, Maine. Ian holds a Ph.D. in American & New England Studies and an MA in Preservation Studies from Boston University. His research and publications include such topics as historic dams, railroad station architecture, Civil War veterans’ vacation homes, historic preservation photography, the creation of national parks, and river rewilding. Ian is working on a book manuscript titled The Summer Homes of the Survivors: Buildings and Landscapes of the Civil War Vacation, 1878-1918, under contract with the University of Virginia Press. Ian has served as a board member for the Vernacular Architecture Forum and the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians and is a current board member of the Fifth Maine Museum on Peaks Island, Maine.
Dr Stevenson is currently the acting Director for Preservation Studies Program at Boston University, visit bu.edu/preservation/ to learn more about the program.