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Clifton Ellis (Editor), Rebecca Ginsburg (Editor)
Description: Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery
Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery
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Clifton Ellis (Editor), Rebecca Ginsburg (Editor)
PublisherYale University Press
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CARL ANTHONY holds a professional degree in architecture from Columbia University and is author of The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race. He taught at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley, before leaving academia to found the Urban Habitat Program, which promotes leadership for environmentally sustainable and socially just communities in the San Francisco Bay area. Anthony directed the program from its founding in 1989 to 2001.
WILLIAM CHAPMAN is director of the Historic Preservation Program and professor in the department of American studies at the University of Hawaii. He earned his doctorate in anthropology from Oxford University and worked for five years as the architectural historian for the government of the Virgin Islands.
EDWARD A. CHAPPELL (1948–2020) was Roberts Director of Architectural and Archaeological Research at Colonial Williamsburg. For more than a decade, he worked with the Bermuda National Trust and the preservation movement on the island nation.
W. E. B. DU BOIS was born soon after emancipation, in 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He was educated at Fisk College, Harvard University, and the University of Berlin, receiving his doctorate from Harvard in 1895. He established the department of sociology at Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University).
CLIFTON ELLIS is Elizabeth Sasser Professor of Architectural History at Texas Tech University. He holds a master’s degree in American history from the University of Tennessee and an MA and PhD in architectural history from the University of Virginia. He is currently working on his next book, Refinement and Bondage: A Plantation Landscape of Antebellum Virginia.
GARRETT FESLER is senior archaeologist for the James River Institute for Archaeology, based in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the College of William and Mary and the coeditor with Maria Fesler of Historical Archaeology, Identity Formation, and the Interpretation of Ethnicity.
ROBERT K. FITTS earned his doctorate in anthropology from Brown University and is the author of Inventing New England’s Slave Paradise: Master/Slave Relations in Eighteenth-Century Narragansett, Rhode Island.
REBECCA GINSBURG is an assistant professor in the department of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her teaching and research interests include escapes from slavery, mapping the Atlantic slave trade, and carceral landscapes.
BARBARA HEATH is professor and department head in the department of anthropology at the University of Tennessee. She earned her doctorate in American civilization with a specialization in archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest.
CHERYL JANIFER LAROCHE holds a doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is an associate research professor in Historic Preservation in the School of Architecture. She is the author of Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance.
MICHAEL STRUTT earned his doctorate in historic preservation from Middle Tennessee State University and is director of cultural resources for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, where he continues his work in preservation of the state’s historic landscapes.
DELL UPTON is author of Architecture in the United States; Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic; and Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia. He is professor emeritus of art history at the University of California at Los Angeles.