{"id":5251,"date":"2015-07-28T11:08:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/?post_type=profile&p=5251"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:30:13","slug":"william-d-moore","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/profile\/william-d-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"William D. Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
Email<\/th>\nSpring 2026 Office Hours<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
moorewd@bu.edu<\/a><\/td>\nTuesdays 2 – 3:30 pm
\nThursdays 10:30 am – 12:00 pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Email for an appointment<\/a><\/p>\n

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William D. Moore holds a joint appointment between the Department of History of Art & Architecture and the American & New England Studies Program. An interdisciplinary American Studies scholar, he has specialties in material culture, the built environment, and cultural history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He holds an A.B. in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University, and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the American & New England Studies Program at Boston University. He researches, lectures, and publishes on vernacular architecture, folk art, American fraternalism, public history, the interpretation of historic sites, and the history of surfing. He is the author of Shaker Fever: America\u2019s Twentieth Century Fascination with a Communitarian Sect<\/em> (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020) and Masonic Temples: Freemasonry, Ritual Architecture, and Masculine Archetypes<\/em> (University of Tennessee Press, 2006). He has contributed numerous articles to exhibition catalogs, books, and scholarly journals. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals Winterthur Portfolio and Buildings & Landscapes<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

He is currently working on a book on the architecture of Cape Cod and its adjacent islands which will be published by the University of Virginia Press as part of the Society of Architectural Historians\u2019 \u201cBuildings of the United States\u201d series.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n

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Selected Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nShaker Fever: America\u2019s 20th Century Fascination with a Communitarian, Celibate Sect.
\n<\/strong><\/em>Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u201cSolomon\u2019s Temple in America: Masonic Architecture, Popular Culture, and Biblical Imagery, 1865-1930,\u201d
\n<\/strong>in Freemasonry and the Visual Arts from the Eighteenth Century Forward: Historical and Global Perspectives,
\nReva Wolf and Alisa Luxenberg, eds, 181-201.
\n<\/strong>New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nMasonic Temples: Freemasonry, Ritual Architecture, and Masculine Archetypes<\/strong><\/em>.
\nKnoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Paperback edition released 2014.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"author":2318,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17994,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5251\/revisions\/17994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}