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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Geography. Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, The University of Oklahoma (4.00 GPA). Completed 2016. Dissertation: “Locating the Agency of Architecture: A Geographic Analysis of the Smithsonian Institution Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden;” Awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2016-17 Architectural Research Centers Consortium Dissertation Award.
M.A., Museum Studies. The University of Oklahoma (4.00 GPA). Completed 2009. Professional project completed at the Smithsonian Institution.
B.S., Environmental Design, Geology Minor. The University of Oklahoma (3.97 GPA, Summa Cum Laude). Completed 2006.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
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2019 – Present. Assistant Professor. College of Architecture. The University of Oklahoma.
2016 – Present. Director of Research Initiatives and Strategic Planning; PhD Program Coordinator and Lecturer. College of Architecture. The University of Oklahoma.
2016 – Present. Lecturer. Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability. The University of Oklahoma.
2011 – 2013. Doctoral Fellow. Office of Facilities, Engineering, and Operations. Smithsonian Institution.
PUBLICATIONS (Selected)
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Books (Peer-Reviewed)
2020. Micieli-Voutsinas, J. and A. Person, eds. Affective Architectures: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Heritage. Published as part of Routledge’s “Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect” series. (Link)
2020. Pilat, S., L. Guido, and A. Person, eds. Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture. Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma Press. (Link) *Finalist for the College Arts Association’s Barr Jr. Book Award and an Oklahoma Book Award
2014. Person, A. and J. Cooper. The Care and Keeping of Cultural Institutions: A best practice guidebook for museum facility management. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (Link)
* Awarded the 2015 IFMA “Distinguished Author Award”
Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
Forthcoming. Pilat, S. and A. Person, “Radical Empathy in the Teaching of Bruce Goff and the American School Architects,” in The Formation of the Architect: Case Studies of Architecture Education in the United States [working title], P. Laurence, ed., Routledge.
Forthcoming. Pilat, S., A. Person, and H. Butzer, “Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture,” in Radical Pedagogies, B. Colomina, I. Galan, E. Kotsioris, A.M. Meister, eds. MIT Press.
2020. Micieli-Voutsinas, J. and A. Person, “Introduction,” in Affective Architectures: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Heritage. Published as part of Routledge’s “Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect” series.
2020. Pilat, S., H. Butzer, and A. Person. “Introduction,” in Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture. Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma Press.
2020. Butzer, H., A. Person, and C. Dagg. “The Legacy and Lessons of the American School,” in Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture. Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma Press.
Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
Accepted with minor revisions. Johnson, V., K. Klockow-McClain, R. Peppler, A. Person. “Tornado Climatology and Risk Perception in Central Oklahoma.” Re-submitted to Weather, Climate and Society, October 2020.
Submitted. Melcher, S., A. Person, R. Peppler, G. Bittner. “Practical Rural Recycling: Intersections of Municipalities, Providers, and Residents.” Submitted to the Journal of Rural Studies, January 2021.
2021. Wade, M., R. Peppler, A. Person. “Community Education and Perceptions of Water Reuse: A Case Study in Norman, Oklahoma.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. Published February 19, 2021 online. (Link)
2020. Merkel, S., A. Person, R. Peppler, S. Melcher. “Climate Change Communication: Examining the Social and Cognitive Barriers to Productive Environmental Communication.” Social Science Quarterly. Published July 15, 2020 online. (Link)
2019 . Person, A. “Reading Pre-Statehood Muskogee: Racial-Political Discourse in American Indian, African American, and White Newspapers, 1905-1907.” Chronicles of Oklahoma, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Oklahoma Historical Society (91) 4. (Link)
2019. Person, A. “Re-Animating the Built; Decentering the Human,” in the Telesis special issue, “Design Against,” (1) 1, pp. 34-37. (Link)
2016. Person, A. “Interview with Hans Butzer and Torrey Butzer, Designers of the Oklahoma City National Memorial,” in Social Science Quarterly (97) 1, pp. 86-95. (Link)
Additional Publications
2018. Henderson, M., A. Person, R. Peppler. “Constructing Green Cities in the Central United States,” in Southern Climate Monitor (8) 1, pp. 2-6. (Link)
2012. Person, A. “Review of Manhood Factories: YMCA architecture and the making of modern urban culture by Ellen Lupkin,” in Material Culture (44) 2, pp. 67-68. (Book review)
2011. Person, A. and J. Cooper. “A work of art: The keeping of cultural facilities,” in the Facility Management Journal (FMJ), Jan./Feb. issue.
*Article awarded the 2011 FMJ “Editor’s Choice Award”
Conference Proceedings (Edited)
Forthcoming. Person, A., A. Cricchio, S. Pilat, eds. “Schools of Thought” Conference Proceedings. To be published by OU Libraries, open-access. Anticipated Fall 2020.
2014. Person, A., D. Martinelli, eds. Creating_Making Forum Conference Proceedings. Published by the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture. (Link)
2010. Person, A., ed. Creating_Making Forum Conference Proceedings. Published by the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture. (Link)
Conference Proceedings Articles (Peer-Reviewed)
2012. Person, A. and Cline, T. “Critical and hermeneutic inquiry: Constructing feminist/geographical/architectural discourse,” in the peer-reviewed Architectural Research Center Consortium and European Association for Architectural Education 2010 International Conference Proceedings, Rena Klein, Richard Hayes, and Virginia Ebbert, eds., pp. 570 – 577. (Link)
2011. Person, A. “Toward Participatory Interpretation: Cultural Geographies of Architecture,” in the peer-reviewed 99th Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting Proceedings: Where Do You Stand, Annie Cormier, Annie Pedret & Alberto Perez-Gomez, eds., pp. 397-404. (Link)
2010. Cline, T. and Person, A. “Transilient Minds: An historical-anthropological approach to first year architecture studio,” Edinburgh Architecture Research Journal (32), pp. 21-26. (Link)
Open-Access Student Publications (Edited)
Forthcoming. Faculty advisor, “Isolation,” the third volume of the Gibbs College Undergraduate Student Journal, Telesis. (Learn more)
2020. Faculty advisor, “Metamedia,” the second volume of the Gibbs College Undergraduate Student Journal, Telesis. (View online)
2019. Faculty advisor, “Design Against,” inaugural volume of the Gibbs College Undergraduate Student Journal, Telesis. (View online) *Winner of the Center for Architecture’s Haskell Award for Student Journals
2018. Person, A. and C. Pavlowsky. eds. “Electric Vehicles.” Open Educational Resources book chapter written by GEOG 3443 students and published by SHAREOK, an open-access repository. (Link)
2018. Person, A. and C. Pavlowsky. eds. “Beer.” Open Educational Resources book chapter written by GEOG 3443 students and published by SHAREOK, an open-access repository. (Link)
2018. Person, A. and C. Pavlowsky. eds. “Burmese Pythons.” Open Educational Resources book chapter written by GEOG 3443 students and published by SHAREOK, an open-access repository. (Link)
Research and Writing Blogs (Edited)
2017 – present. Person, A. and graduate student editors, “OU Architectural Theory and Criticism Journal,” undergraduate and graduate student essays circulated in an e-newsletter. (Link)
2017 – present Person, A. and R. Peppler, eds. “Environmental Sustainability Working Group (ESWG) Blog.” Over 50 undergraduate research updates published by ESWG since 2017. (Link)
AWARDS AND HONORS (Selected)
2021. University of Oklahoma Award for Excellence in Research, Design, and Creative Expression in the Humanities and the Fine Arts, for the American School Project (2016-2021), with Dr. Stephanie Pilat (project co-lead).
2021. University of Oklahoma Environmental Concerns Committee Award for Environmental Stewardship, Group Award, for the Environmental Sustainability Working Group (envlab.wordpress.com), with Dr. Randy Peppler (co-advisor).
2021. Gibbs College nominee for the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Faculty Excellence Award, University of Oklahoma.
2019. Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals, Center for Architecture, AIA New York (served as Faculty Advisor to student journal, Telesis)
2019. University of Oklahoma Libraries ‘Library Partner Award’ for partnering on the “Renegades at Bizzell: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture” exhibition (link)
2019. All-Around Staff/Administrator Award, University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture
2016. Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Honorable Mention for the 2016-17 Dissertation Award, for “Locating the Agency of Architecture”
Funding
Selected funding.
2021 – 2022. Faculty Investment Program Grant, sponsored by the OU Vice President for Research & Partnerships, in support of the project “Affective Heritage: Measuring Real-Time Biosensory Responses at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.” $12,639.
2021 – 2022. Teaching Intellectual Virtues Project Award, sponsored by the OU Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing & the John Templeton Foundation, in support of refining the virtues- & values-centered curriculum of ARCH 1163, “Methods I,” with co-instructor Hans Butzer. $2,250.
2021 – 2022. Undergraduate Research Opportunity Grant, awarded by the University of Oklahoma Honors College, for the undergraduate research project “Oklahoma City Park Access and Environmentalism Within an Environmental Justice and Equity Context,” of Kathlyn Dannewald. $800.
2020 – 2021. Undergraduate Research Opportunity Grant, awarded by the University of Oklahoma Honors College, for the undergraduate research project “Assessing the Extent of Student Recycling Knowledge at OU and other Big XII Institutions,” of Noah Brown. $579.
2020 – 2021. Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability Research Assistant Funding, with Dr. Peppler, for the undergraduate research project “An Inexhaustible Discourse.” $3,300 for two semesters. (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
2020 – 2021. Honors Research Assistant Program Grant, awarded by the University of Oklahoma Honors College, to support an undergraduate researcher for the project “Place Attachment in the Tar Creek, Oklahoma, Region.” $2,000. (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
2019. Undergraduate Research Opportunity Grant, awarded by the University of Oklahoma Honors College, for the undergraduate research project “Gendered Expressions of Place Attachment near the Tar Creek Superfund Site” of Brooke Foster. $635.00.
2019. Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability Research Assistant Funding, with Dr. Peppler, for the undergraduate research project “Greenwashing in Cosmetic Sales.” $2,000.
2019. Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability Research Assistant Funding, with Dr. Peppler, for the undergraduate research project “Environmental Justice.” $2,000.
2019. Oklahoma-NASA Space Grant Funding, with Dr. Peppler, for the undergraduate research projects, “Perceptions of Reclaimed Stormwater.” $2,000.
2018. Venice Architecture Biennale. $35,000 from the University of Oklahoma Provost’s Office to support The American School exhibition at Plaza Bembo during the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Team project.
2018. Undergraduate Research Program Funding, awarded by the Office of Undergraduate Research, The University of Oklahoma, to support a Research Guide to mentor student research in “Environment and Society” (GEOG 3443). $2,600 (Spring).
2018. Undergraduate Research Program Funding, awarded by the Office of Undergraduate Research, The University of Oklahoma, to support a Research Guide to mentor student research in “Environment and Society” (GEOG 3443). $2,600 (Fall).
2018. Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability Research Assistant Funding, with Dr. Peppler, for the undergraduate research project “Rural Recycling Analysis.” $2,000.
2018. Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability Research Assistant Funding, with Dr. Peppler, for the undergraduate research project “Comparative Analysis of Federal Sustainability Strategies.” $1,000.
2018. Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability Research Assistant Funding, with Dr. Peppler, for the undergraduate research “The Social Construction of Urban Green Space.” $1,000.
2017. Undergraduate Research Program Funding, awarded by the Office of Undergraduate Research, The University of Oklahoma, to support a Research Guide to mentor student research in “Environment and Society” (GEOG 3443). $2,845.
2017. Oklahoma-NASA Space Grant Funding, with Dr. Peppler, for the undergraduate research project “Discourse Analysis: Reading the Diamond Pipeline.” $2,100.
2017. Oklahoma-NASA Space Grant Funding, with Dr. Peppler, for the undergraduate research project “Place-Based Tornado Risk Perception.” $2,100.
2017. Oklahoma-NASA Space Grant Funding, with Dr. Peppler, for the undergraduate research “Imagining and Communicating Global Warming at Diverse Scales.” $2,100.
2017. Mentored Research Funding. Undergraduate research project, “Examining Barriers to Environmental Risk Communication,” funded by the Office of Undergraduate Research, The University of Oklahoma. $500.
2017. Undergraduate Research Program Funding, awarded by the Office of Undergraduate Research, The University of Oklahoma, to support a Research Guide to mentor student research in “Architectural Theory and Criticism” (ARCH 4543). $2,592.93.
2016. Undergraduate Research Pilot Program Funding, awarded by the Office of Undergraduate Research, The University of Oklahoma, to support two Research Guides to mentor student research in “Environment and Society” (GEOG 3443). $2,845.
2011 – 2013. Doctoral Student Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. $70,000.
