Nostalgic and Authentic Narratives of Place: The Yankee and the Immigrant in a New England Port City
Kelly Tukee Lecture in Historic Preservation
Dr. Kingston Wm. Heath is Professor of Historic Preservation at the University of Oregon’s College of Design. He holds a B.A. in English from Lake Forest College, an M.A. in Art History from the University of Chicago, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University. He has worked as the State Architectural Historian for the Montana State Historic Preservation Office, the Supervisor of Historical Interpretation at Mystic Seaport, and Professor of Architectural History and Historic Preservation at Montana State University and the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. His areas of specialization include vernacular architecture of the American West, New England workers’ housing, American building construction history, and vernacular architecture theory. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Patina of Place: The Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial Landscape, and Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design: Cultural Process and Environmental Response. He is the founder and co-director of the Croatia Summer Field School, an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the traditional stone architecture of Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast.
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