NAME	Louis P. Nelson	Assistant Professor of Architectural History
TEACHING AREA	Early American Architecture (Architectural History)
EDUCATION	Ph.D., 2001 M.A., 1998 B. A., 1990	University of Delaware University of Delaware William and Mary
TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE	Introduction to Architectural History Survey of Early American Architecture		2001-present
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE	The Center for Historic Architecture and Design at the University of Delaware		1995-96
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS	Postdoctoral Fellow, Lilly Fellows Program, Valparaiso University University of Delaware Competitive Fellowship Lois F. McNeil Dissertation Fellowship, Winterthur Museum 1998-99 University of Delaware “Excellence in Teaching Award.”		2000-01 1999 1999 1998-99
PUBLICATIONS (Recent/selected)	“Anglican Church-Building and Local Context in Early Jamaica,” in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Vol. X (Knoxville: University of Tenessee Press, 2002), forthcoming. “Building “Cross-wise”: Reconstructing Jamaica’s Eighteenth-Century Anglican Churches” Jamaica Historical Review (Spring 2002), forthcoming. “Building Confessions: Architecture and Meaning in Nineteenth-century Places of Worship,” Sacred Spaces: Building and Remembering Sites of Worship in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Virginia Raguin, (Holy Cross, 2002), forthcoming. Donna Rilling, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850 (2000), book review for Winterthur Portfolio 37 (Spring 2002), forthcoming. Julie Nicoletta, The Architecture of the Shakers (1995), book review for the Vernacular Architecture Newsletter 89 (Fall, 2001), 25-26.		2002 2002 2002 2002 2001
RESEARCH & CREATIVE WORK (Recent/selected)	Historic Structures Reports for the Brafferton (1723) and the President’s House (1732) of the College of William and Mary Beyond my own work in Eighteenth-century Anglicanism, my current research projects include: The domestic architecture of early Colonial Charleston (in conjunction with a group of historical archaeologists) and church design in Early National America in conjunction with scholars from the Winterthur Museum and Messiah College		1999 and in process
MEMBERSHIP	Society of Architectural Historians, Vernacular Architecture Forum
SERVICE (selected)	Albemarle County Historic Preservation Committee