Education
University of Oregon, M.Arch., 1972
Carnegie-Mellon University, B.Arch., 1969  

Teaching Area
History/Theory, Design Studio, Vernacular Architecture, Synagogues, American Housing

Memberships
Society of Architectural Historians
Vernacular Architecture Forum
Association of Jewish Studies

Academic and Professional Honors
National Endowment of Humanities, Interpretive Research Grant $80,000 for research on East European Synagogues in Poland and Israel, 1994
National Endowment of Humanities, Summer Stipends Program; $5000 grant, Wall-painting analysis of East European Synagogues, 1994
National Endowment for the Arts, Design Arts Organizational Grant, $29,418 grant for one year research in Poland 1988
Maine Humanities Council, $20,000 grant for a traveling exhibit and symposium exploring the thesis of environmental improvement in 19th C. rural Maine, 1985
Abbott Lowell Cummings Award: Vernacular Architecture Forum, 1985
National Endowment for the Humanities, Publications Division Grant, $10,000, 1984-85
National Endowment for the Humanities, General Research Grant, $18,000, 1981
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Project Fellowships Grant, $8,500, 1980  

Teaching Experience
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: 1987-present
University of Oregon: 1972-1983
McGill University, MIT, Boston University: (one semester each)   

Professional Experience
Polish Center of Wisconsin, Cultural Center for Wisconsin's Polish Community (Uihlein/Wilson)
4 years professional practice in Portland, Maine area
Town Hall and Fire Station, Norway, Maine (Moore/Weinrich)
Library Addition, Yarmouth, Maine (Stevens Assoc.)   

Research Interests
Issues of architecture and cultural meaning. Currently investigating American popular housing,  19^th and 20^th centuries, including case studies of working-class housing in major  U. S. cities.  Previous research investigated the 18th century wooden synagogues of Eastern Europe emphasizing the relationships between Jewish culture and Eastern European contextual factors in the development of the architecture. Other areas of research: imagery in the design process, New England farm architecture, vernacular architecture theory, and the architecture of H.H. Richardson.

Publications (Selected)
Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an 18th Century Polish Community, University Press of New England, 2003.
Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn - The Connected Farm Buildings of New England (University Press of New England, Hanover, H.H., 226pp., 134 illus.)
"The Gate of Heaven: The Influence of the Zohar upon the Art and Architecture of the Gwozdziec Synagogues,"(in Hebrew), in Mythin Judaism, ed. Haviva Pedaya (Jerusalem, 1996)
"Jewish Art and Architecture in Eastern European Context," Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies, vol.10, 1997.
"H.H. Richardson: The Design of the William Watts Sherman House," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. LI, no.2, June 1992, co-authored with Jeffery Ochsner.
"H.H. Richardson's Glessner House: A Garden in the Machine," Winterthur Portfolio, Winter 1989.

Service
Wisconsin Historic Preservation Review Board; Chair, Architecture Committee