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Landscapes of Succession: Paper Sessions VAF 2019
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania
3417 Spruce Street
Session I - 8:00 - 9:30 am
BUILDING COMMUNITY – Ben Franklin, Room 218
Chair: Betsy Cromley, Professor Emerita, School of Architecture, Northeastern University
Anna Andrzejewski, Professor, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Building Community in Nalcrest, A Florida Retirement Haven for Postal Carriers
Jonathan Farris, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Youngstown State University
On Crandall Park: Settling a Jazz Age Suburb in Youngstown, Ohio
Katherine L. Farnham, Senior Architectural Historian, AECOM; Courtney L. Clark, Architectural Historian, AECOM; Samuel A. Pickard, Historian, AECOM
African American Communities in Sussex County, Delaware
Michael R. Allen, Senior Lecturer, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art, Washington University in St. Louis Landscape of Evolution
Historic Preservation and Uneven Development
RURAL LIFE – Bodek Lounge, Room 100
Chair: Warren Hofstra, Professor, History, Shenandoah University
Travis Olson, Architectural Researcher, City of Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation, Division of Planning and Preservation
Folk Farmsteads on the Frontier: The Formation of the ‘American’ German-from-Russia Farmhouse
JR Thuot, Professor of History, Université du Québec à Rimouski
Life and Death of the Seigneurial Environment in Canada’s St. Lawrence Valley, 1700-1970
Derong Kong, Teaching and Research Assistant, Tsinghua University
The Dong Oral Architecture: Carpenter, architecture and phenomena among the Dong people in southwest of China
Huaqing Huang, Associate Research Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University
Manufacturing the Industrial Countryside: Capital, Labor and the Making of Modern Tea Factories in Rural China, 1880-1980
SHAPING PUBLIC MEMORY- Golkin, Room 223
Chair: Daves Rossell, Savannah College of Art and Design
James Giesen, Associate Professor, History, Mississippi State University
The View from Rose Hill: Succession, Memory, and Erasure on a South Carolina Plantation
Jennifer J. Lauer, Graduate Research Assistant, SUNY ESF Center for Cultural Landscape Preservation
Designing the Counter Narrative: Confronting Social and Ecological Violence at Rose Hill
Wei (Windy) Zhao, Assistant Professor, School of Design, Louisiana Tech University
The Meaning of 100,000: The Confrontation between Vernacular Tradition and National Heritage
Shreya Ghoshal, Research and Teaching Assistant to Professor Erica Avrami, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University
Bde Maka Ska: Layers of Significance and Interpretation
ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES – Class of 49 Auditorium, Room 230
Chair: Michael J. Chiarappa, Professor of History, Quinnipiac University
Sally McMurry, Professor Emerita of History, Penn State University
The American farm pond: toward a cultural, environmental, and landscape history
Dana Cress, Architectural Historians, GAI Consultants
An Erased Landscape
Tessa Evans, Ph.D. Candidate, American History, University of Tennessee
Black Landscapes in the Southern Frontier: Geographic Literacy and Fugitive Slave Activity in Arkansas, 1820-1865
Session II - 10:00 - 11:30 am
MEMORIALIZATON – Bodek Lounge, Room 100
Chair: Dell Upton, Professor, Architectural History, University of California at Los Angeles
Margaret Grubiak, Associate Professor of Architectural History, Villanova University
Gumby Jesus' on an Arkansas Mountaintop: A Surprising Landscape of Hate
Valentina Rozas-Krause, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
Demanding Apologies: Memorializing the World War II Japanese American Incarceration at the Tanforan Assembly Center
Arijit H. Sen, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies, University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee Medians and Memorials as Everyday Commemorative Sites of Grassroots Resistance
Desiree Valadares, Ph.D Candidate, Architectural History, University of California at Berkeley
Making Native Space: Commemorating Japanese Canadian World War II Alongside Specters of Indigeneity along the Hope-Princeton Highway in British Columbia
AMERICAN IMMIGRANT IDENTITY – Ben Franklin, Room 218
Chair: Clifton Ellis, Associate Dean of Research & Faculty Development and Elizabeth Sasser Professor of Architectural History, Texas Tech College of Architecture
Priya Jain, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Associate Director, Center for Heritage Conservation, College of Architecture | Texas A&M University
What’s in a name? Hillcroft Avenue to Mahatma Gandhi District
Alec Stewart, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
From Swap Meet to Mall: Latinizing Southern California’s Multi-Ethnic Swap Meets
Anisha Gade, Independent Researcher, Berkeley, California
Negotiated Visibility: Asian American Spaces and Identity Formation in Silicon Valley
RECREATION AND TOURISM – Class of 49 Auditorium, Room 230
Chair: Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, Associate Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University
PJ Carlino, Ph.D. Candidate, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University
Bleacher Bugs and Fifty-Centers: The Design of American Baseball Stadium Seating, 1880-1920
Roy Malcolm Porter, Jr., Historic Preservation Planner, City of Tulsa, Oklahoma
On the Bourbon Trail: Distilleries as Industrial Sites and Vacation Destinations
Cynthia Falk, Professor of Material Culture, Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University of New York College at Oneonta, Cooperstown, New York
Forever Wild at Sagamore
Ian Stevenson, Ph.D. Candidate, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University
Enshrining the Civil War Vacation: Union Veterans, Familial Legacy, and the 103rd OVI Campus at Sheffield Lake, Ohio
FIELD NOTES – Golkin Room, Room 223
Chair: Ruth Little, Longleaf Historic Resources, Raleigh, NC
Laura Grotjan, Ph.D. Candidate, Michigan Technological University
The Addition of Leisure Spaces: Porch Additions in a Northern Michigan Community
Christine Henry, Assistant Professor, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia
On the Straight and Narrow: The Alleys Connecting Fredericksburg’s Courthouse and Jail
Milena Metalkova-Markova, Associate Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, Bulgari
Vernacular architecture as an exploration ground for art, architecture and preservation relationship
Lunch Roundtable - 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
DOCUMENTING SENSE OF PLACE – Bodek Lounge, Room 100
Chair: Elijah Gaddis, Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University
Gabrielle Berlinger, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Folklore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lauren Graves, Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art & Architecture, Boston University,
Rachel C. Kirby, Ph.D. Candidate, American & New England Studies Program, Boston University
Sydney Varajon, Ph.D. Candidate, English with a concentration in Folklore, Ohio State University
Comment: Bernard L. Herman, George B. Tindall Professor of Southern Studies, American Studies, University of North Carolina
Session III - 1:00 - 2:30 pm
SHAPING THE CITY – Bodek Lounge, Room 100
Chair: Jim Buckley, Associate Professor, Chair in Historic Preservation, School of Architecture and Environment, University of Oregon
Kristin Hankins, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, Yale University
Litter Lenses: Trash, Photography, and Space in Philadelphia
Tamsen Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Hekma School of Design and Architecture, Dar Al-Hekma University
“Burn Those Places Down”: Arson and the Transformation of Chicago’s Slaughterhouse Landscape, 1860s-1890s
Kate Howard, Masters’ Candidate, Historic Preservation, Clemson University/College of Charleston
The Vacant Structure Problem: The Success of Baltimore City’s Programs and Policies at Creating Healthy Blocks without the Loss of Historic Integrity in the Upton Neighborhood
DOMESTIC LIVES – Class of 49 Auditorium, Room 230
Chair: Dianne Harris, Senior Program Officer, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Valentina Davila, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Architecture, McGill University
Venezuelan Domestics and the Representations of God in their Quarters
Kimberly Gultia, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Architecture, McGill University
Butler, Valet, Maid, and Cook: The Place of Domestic Workers in the Spanish Colonial Home of the Philippines (1848-1900)
Tania Gutierrez-Monroy Ph.D. Candidate, School of Architecture, McGill University
Domestic Geographies at War: Ephemeral Architectures Built by Women during the Mexican Revolution
Shisachila Imchen, Ph.D. degree recipient, University College London
Experience, Memory, and the Perpetuation of the Morung in Nagaland
ROADS, INDUSTRY, AND RECREATION – Golkin Room, Room 223
Chair: Tim Davis, Senior Historian, Historic Structures & Cultural Landscapes Program, National Park Service
Alyssa Kreikemeier, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, Boston University
A Wild Road: The History and Promotion of the Beartooth Highway
David Salmanson, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia
Roads Map Power: Cold War Landscapes in Western New Mexico
Aaron Ahlstrom, Ph.D. Candidate, American & New England Studies Program. Boston University
Landscapes of Beauty and Profit: The Development and Design of Massachusetts State Forests and Parks, 1904-1929
Taylor Rose, Ph.D. Candidate, History, Yale University
The "Opening of the Clackamas": Multiple Use Geography and Log Truck Politics in the Oregon Cascades
INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUILDING MATERIALS – Ben Franklin, Room 223
Chair, Andrew Dolkart, Professor of Historic Preservation, Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Fredric Quivik, Quivik Consulting Historian, Inc.
Central Stations v. Isolated Plants and the Development of a Middle-Class Neighborhood in Philadelphia
Michael Holleran, Director, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and Associate Professor, School of Architecture University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture
Pueblo Water, City Water: Los Angeles zanjas, 1781 – 1904
Robin Williams, Department of Architectural History, Savannah College of Art and Design
Municipal Infrastructure as Social Construct: How Street Pavement Experiments before 1930 Resulted from Citizen Engagement, Civic Progressivists and Skilled Craftsmanship
Kateryna Malaia, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
A Unit of Homemaking: Prefabricated Panel and Domestic Architecture in the Late Soviet Union.
Session IV - 3:00 - 4:30 pm
NEW METHODS AND RECORDS – Bodek Lounge, Room 100
Chair: Jennifer Baughn, Chief Architectural Historian, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
William Littmann, Senior Adjunct Lecturer, California College of the Arts
The Long Walk as a Method for Studying the Cultural Landscape
Sarah Faye Scarlett, Assistant Professor of History, Social Sciences Department, Michigan Technological University
Digital Spatial Technologies
Nicole Valois, Professor, School of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Montreal
Pedestrian spaces of the New Town of Villeneuve d’Asq: Interacting Archives and Sketches
EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURE – Golkin Room, Room 223
Chair: Dale Gyure, Professor, Architecture, Lawrence Technological University
Laurin Goad Davis, Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, Pennsylvania State University
Traditional and Progressive?: Open-Air Schools in the South, 1911-1930
Jaime Gomez, Ph.D. Candidate in Architecture, University of California at Berkeley
Total and Equal: Cuba´s Rural Boarding Schools and the Search for Equality
TRADITION AND MODERNITY – Ben Franklin , Room 218
Chair: Rachel Leibowitz, Co-Director, Center for Cultural Landscape Preservation, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Irene Appeaning Addo, Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Traditional Earth-Constructed Houses in Tamale, Ghana: Tradition, Identity and Modernity
Leila Saboori, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Challenges and Possibilities in the Making of Modern Middle Eastern Oil Cities
PHILADELPHIA – Class of 49 Auditorium, Room 230
Chair: Aaron Wunsch, Assistant Professor, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Grey Pierce, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, University of Chicago
A History and Memory of Philadelphia Gay Bathhouses
Anthony R.C. Hita, Architectural Conservator, LimeWorks.us
The “Model” Church: Mid-19th Century Germantown as Interpreted through Sloan’s First Baptist Church of Germantown
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