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Adjunct Associate Professor of History
Associate Professor of Art
Telephone: (413) 545-6952
E-mail: mpage@art.umass.edu
Personal web site
Degree: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1995).
Field(s) of interest: Modern U.S., urban, architectural,
and public history.
Graduate Courses Offered:
Public History
Research Interests and Professional Activities
Max Page is an associate professor of architecture and history at the
University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he teaches urban,
architectural, and public history. He is the author of The Creative
Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1999),
which won the Spiro Kostof Award of the Society of Architectural
Historians, for the best book on architecture and urbanism. He writes
for a variety of publications about New York City, urban development and
the popular uses of history. He is also the co-editor (with Steven
Conn) of Building the Nation: Americans Write Their Architecture, Their
Cities, and Their Environment (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003),
as well as the co-editor (with Randall Mason) of Giving Preserving a
History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States
(Routledge, 2003). He is a recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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