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E.G. Daves Rossell

Architectural history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., architecture, University of California, Berkeley
  • B.A., architecture and history, University of California, Berkeley

Credentials

  • Professor of architectural history, 1997–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Adjunct professor, 1993–95, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
  • Lecturer, 1989–92, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
  • Teaching assistant, 1986–89, University of California, Berkeley

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Second Prize, Historic American Landscape Challenge, 2016, history and documentation of the Julia Gordon Low Birthplace Garden, Savannah, Ga.
  • Vernacular Architecture Forum Ambassadors Fellowship, 2016
  • Art Works Grant for "Reading the City," a co-authored multimedia project on Savannah, National Endowment for the Arts, 2013 (shared)
  • Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2012
  • Vernacular Architecture Forum VAF Meeting Grant, 2007
  • Humanities Council of South Carolina for South Carolina components of "Savannah and the Lowcountry," the 28th Annual Meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2007
  • Vernacular Architecture Forum VAF Meeting Fieldwork Grant, 2005–07
  • Vernacular Architecture Forum Ambassadors Fellowship, 2005
  • Georgia Humanities Council Grant: Fourth Savannah Symposium: Architecture and Regionalism, 2005
  • Georgia Humanities Council Grant: Third Savannah Symposium: Commemoration and the City, 2003
  • Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2001, 2006, 2016

Organizations

  • American Historical Association
  • American Studies Association
  • International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments
  • Society of Architectural Historians
  • Society for the History of Technology Vernacular Architecture Forum
  • Vernacular Architecture Group (UK)

Publications and presentations

  • "Fieldwork and Inclusiveness," presenter and discussion panel member at Architectural History Redefined: Celebrating the Scholarship of Dell Upton, New York, April 2018.
  • "Building on Diversity: The Origins and Variety of Prefabricated Timber Framing in the United States," in Häuser wiederholt. Serie als Lust und Last / Houses Repeated: Series as Ideal and Reality, 99-115, edited by Petra Lohmann. Dresden: Thelem, 2017. In Press.
  • Numerous entries for Savannah, co-authored volume for the Buildings of the United States Series, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016.
  • Commemoration in America: Essays on Monuments, Memorialization, and Memory, co-edited and coauthored introduction with David Gobel; essays by Catherine Bishir, David Lowenthal, Mark A. Peterson, and Dell Upton among others, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013.
  • Savannah and the Lowcountry: A Guidebook for the 28th Annual Meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Savannah: Savannah College of Art and Design, 2007. Co-edited with Marisa C. Gomez.