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Dorothee Brantz Center for Metropolitan Studies Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I am currently working on two new projects – one about the impact of seasons on urban life in the US and Europe between 1900 and 2000. The other asks about the role of nature […]
Read MoreJessica Elfenbein Professor of History University of South Carolina Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I’m working on a community study of a now-disappeared place called Ferguson, SC. In the decades following Reconstruction, Chicago lumbermen Benjamin F. Ferguson (1840-1905) and Francis Beidler (1854-1924) made their way to South Carolina, acquired–at bargain […]
Read MoreEllen Hartman Research Landscape Architect, US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratory Part-time PhD Student, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? My current research at work covers a few areas, but it’s mostly focused on military aspects of cultural resources management and […]
Read MoreJohn D. Fairfield Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I’m currently working on several projects. I recently drafted an essay on my late friend/mentor/editor Zane L. Miller called “’The Metropolitan Mode of Thought’: Zane L. Miller and the History of Ideas.” I hope it will be part […]
Read MoreFamed geographer Carl Suer once wrote: “Culture is the agent, the natural area the medium, the cultural landscape the result.” To put it less eloquently, people shape the landscape through husbandry, conservation, and architecture, and the end results speak volumes. While New Orleans might not be the perfect encapsulation of such an idea, as evidenced […]
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