Recent Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity:

The Buildings of North Dakota [North Dakota volume in the “Buildings of the United States” series, Society of Architectural Historians; co-authored with Professor Steven C. Martens; publication schedule in 2006].
Tangent Lives: Victorian Society on the Northern Plains [manuscript under development and being considered by the University of Iowa Press].

Recent Publications/Presentations:

“Joseph E. Rosatti: an appreciation,” 12-panel exhibit of the architects career, shown as a part of Historic Preservation Week 2005 (05-05)
“The Architecture of Iceland,” Scandinavian Hjemkomst Festival 2005, Moorhead, MN (06-05)
“The Architecture of Finland,” Scandinavian Hjemkomst Festival 2004, Moorhead, MN (06-04)
“Faith and Form: religious expression on the Great Plains,” F-M Communiversity, Fargo, ND (02-03)
“Wright’s Women: a feminist perspective on Frank Lloyd Wright,” F-M Communiversity, Fargo ND (02-99)
“George David Hancock, Pioneer North Dakota architect,” 150th birthday exhibition, Atomic Coffee, Moorhead MN (09-99)
“NP@100,” 100th anniversary celebration of Cass Gilbert’s design for the Northern Pacific Depot in Fargo ND, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND (pending)
“Who was Albert Levering and why are they saying those terrible things about him?” Breaking New Ground conference, Madison WI (04-99)
“Evangelists for Ecclesiology: English High-Churchmanship on the American Frontier,” Inter-Disciplinary conference on Nineteenth Century Studies, Columbus OH (04-99)
“A Biographical Dictionary of Great Plains Architects,” interactive website devoted to emergence of the architectural profession on the northern Plains before 1930.
The Strange Case of Charles Emlen Bell: an episode in the professionalization of architecture,” Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Conference, Dallas TX (02-98)
“Tangent Lives: Victorian society on the Northern Plains,” F-M Communiversity (02-98)
“Seeking Sources, Making Connections,” interpretive exhibit, Plains Art Museum, Fargo ND (10/97-02/98)
“The Boom of a Western Town: Ellen Hodges Cooley’s 1897 novel of frontier experience — and revenge,” Great Plains Symposium, Lincoln NE (1997)
“Rev. B.F. Cooley: High Churchmanship on the American Frontier,” Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha NE (1997)
“The Crooked Straight and the Rough Places Plane:” a social history of Philadelphia’s changing topography before 1830, Sixth National Planning History Conference, Knoxville TN (10/95; awarded the first deMontquin Prize)