JOHN R. STILGOE
historian
Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape

VES 107: Studies of the Built North American
Environment since 1580
VES 160: Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890-2035
VES 166: North American Seacoasts and Landscapes, Discovery to Present
VES 167: Adventure and Fantasy Simulation,
1871-2036

"Rural Independence" ©John R. Stilgoe

Most recently author of Train Time: Railroads and Imminent Landscape Change (University of Virginia Press, 2007) and Landscape and Images (University of Virginia Press, 2005), Stilgoe conducts research on subjects ranging from national critical infrastructure, steganography, catoptropmancy, catoptrics, the fantasy of origins of designed humans and humanoids, energy-independent housing, and old-field landscape. Author of Lifeboat: A History of Courage, Cravenness, and Survival at Sea (University of Virginia Press, 2003), Outside Lies Magic (Walker, 1998), Alongshore (Yale University Press, 1994), Shallow-Water Dictionary (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003), Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene (Yale University Press, 1983), and other books, he is currently completing a monograph on photography, glamour, and extreme landscape. He is a winner of the Francis Parkman, George Hilton, and Bradford Williams medals, the AIA award for collaborative research, and the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for art-history research. He is a fellow of the Society of American Historians, has taught in VES since 1977, and carries a Rolleiflex fitted for both 120 and 35 mm film.

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