UMass Amherst Professor Max Page Awarded Fulbright Fellowship to Argentina
Feb. 13, 2008
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AMHERST, Mass. – Max Page, associate professor of architecture and history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Argentina for the spring of 2009.
During his stay in Buenos Aires, Page will lecture about historic preservation in the United States and study the politics of preservation in Argentina for a book about the history and politics of historic preservation. He also will work to develop an exchange program between his department and El Centro de Estudios de Arquitectura Contempor?nea at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, where he will be based during his fellowship.
The fellowship is the second major award he has received in the past year. Last April, Page received a $25,000 fellowship from the Howard Foundation to support his book project titled “Priceless: The History and Politics of Historic Preservation.” Intended as a comprehensive history of historic preservation in the United States, Page said the work will focus on fundamental issues that have shaped the debate over preservation for two centuries.
A member of the UMass Amherst faculty since 2001, Page 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). Page was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003.
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