Keith Morgan

Keith N. Morgan is a professor emeritus of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University, where he taught from 1980 until 2018.  He served as the Director of Preservation Studies (1980–1983), the Director of American and New England Studies (1984–1986), and twice as the Chairman of the History of Art and Architecture Department, where he served as the founding director of the Architectural Studies Program (2009–2018).  He is a former national president and fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians. 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. His publications include American Victorian Architecture, written with Arnold Lewis (Dover, 1975); Charles A. Platt. The Artist as Architect (MIT, 1985); Boston Architecture, 1975–1990, written with Naomi Miller (Prestel Verlag, 1990); Shaping an American Landscape: The Art and Architecture of Charles A. Platt (Hood Museum of Art, 1995); the introduction for the new edition of Italian Gardens by Charles A. Platt (Sagapress, 1993); and an introduction to a new edition of Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect (University of Massachusetts Press, 1999). He was the architecture editor for The Encyclopedia of New England (Yale University Press, 2005). Professor Morgan was the editor and one of the lead authors for Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, (University of Virginia Press, 2009), part of the 62-volume series, the Buildings of the United States, being organized by the Society of Architectural Historians. With Elizabeth Hope Cushing and Roger Reed, he published Community by Design: the Olmsted Office and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1880–1936, (Library of American Landscape History and the University of Massachusetts Press 2013), which was awarded the Ruth Emery Prize of the Victorian Society in America in 2014. He has served on various boards and committees throughout his career and is currently the president of the board of directors for Library of American Landscape History.

See Professor Morgan’s Department Profile under History of Art & Architecture.