Dell Upton

Background

Upton, Dell was born on June 24, 1949 in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, United States. Son of Wentney B. and Carley A. (White) University.

Education

Upton studied history and english as an undergraduate at Colgate University. And Doctor of Philosophy in American Civilization at Brown University.

Career

He is chair of the Department of Art History at University of California, Los Angeles, and Professor Emeritus of Architecture at University of California, Berkeley. He previously has taught at the University of Virginia. He earned an Master of Arts He taught for many years at University of California Berkeley, before moving in 2002 to the University of Virginia, where he was David A. Harrison Professor of Anthropology and Architecture, with appointments in the School of Architecture and the department of anthropology.

He now teaches at University of California, Los Angeles as Professor of Architectural History and is chair of the Department of Art History.

Upton authored the 1998 textbook, Architecture in the United States for the Oxford University Press" Oxford Art History series. Upton has written extensively on vernacular landscapes of the American built environment.

His work on Colonial and Antebellum American include: Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic (2008 New Haven: Yale University Press), Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (1986 Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press), Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans (1996 Athens: University of Georgia Press), and America’s Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups That Built America (Washington: Preservation Press). Works such as Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture, with John Michael Vlach (Athens: University of Georgia Press) and "Architecture History or Landscape History?" in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

He wrote the chief essay for the Metropolitan Museum of Art"s exhibition "Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861" in 2000.

Achievements

• Dell Upton has been listed as a noteworthy historian, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Madaline: Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans

    (This work recounts the life of Madaline Edwards, a woman ...)

  • Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia

    (In this prize-winning book, Dell Upton interweaves archit...)

  • Madaline Love and Survival in Antebellum New Orleans The Private Writings of a Kept Woman
  • Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia by Upton, Dell (1997) Paperback
  • Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia (Architectural History Foundation Book) Hardcover - November 5, 1986

Membership

Member American Studies Association, American History Association, Organisation American Historians (board directors 1985-1988), Vernacular Architectural Forum (founder, editor 1979-1989).

Interests

• Avocations: master's swimming.

Connections

Father:

Wentney B. University

Mother:

Carley A. (White) University