Faculty

	Jeffrey Eley Savannah B.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University; M.Arch.Hist., University of Virginia.
	Thomas Gensheimer Savannah B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
	David Gobel Savannah B.Arch., Texas Tech University; M.A., Princeton University; M.Arch.Hist., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Princeton University.
	Celeste Lovette Guichard Savannah B.F.A., University of New Mexico; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.* Columbia University.
	Steven Moffson Atlanta B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., University of Delaware. Steven Moffson has been an architectural historian in the historic preservation division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources since 1996. He also teaches American architectural history at Georgia State University and SCAD-Atlanta. In addition, he has worked at the National Park Service and the Delaware State Historic Preservation Office. His interest in vernacular architecture in the South led to the publication of his article "Identity and Assimilation in Synagogue Architecture in Georgia, 1870-1920" in "Constructing Image, Identity, and Place: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture IX" in 2003. Publication: "Identity and Assimilation in Synagogue Architecture in Georgia, 1870-1920" in "Constructing Image, Identity, and Place: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture IX" (Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2003). Award: Paul E. Buchanan Award for excellence in fieldwork, interpretation and public service. Presented by the Vernacular Architecture Forum for "Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site: Historic Resource Study," co-authored with Robert W. Blythe and Maureen A. Carroll, Charleston, S.C., 1994. Membership: Vernacular Architecture Forum DOCOMOMO-US Courses: 19th-century Architecture 20th-century Architecture
	E.G. Daves Rossell Savannah B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Daves Rossell, Ph.D., recently served as chair of the Georgia National Register Review Board, as chair of Vernacular GeorgiA and as co-editor of ARRIS: The Journal of the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians. His research interests include field study of the built environment of Savannah and the surrounding Lowcountry, exploration of the history of technology and0 illuminating engineering, and cross-cultural comparisons of material culture. He is co-editor of a forthcoming book "Commemoration and the City: Monuments, Memorialization, and Meaning" (University of Virginia Press). In addition, he chairs the Chatham County Historic Preservation Commission and directed the 28th annual meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum: Savannah and the Lowcountry, to be held March 28-31, 2007. Lectures: "The Lives of Architectural History," Lumpkin County Historical Society, Dahlonega, Ga., 2006 "From the Present to the Past: Georgia's Great and Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes," 2006 Winter Seminar Series, Jekyll Island, Ga., 2006 "'This Here's the North Pole': Florence S. Gibson (1910-2005) and the World She Gave Us," Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, October 2005 "From the Present to the Past: Georgia's Great and Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes," Coastal Georgia Historical Society, Summer Chautauqua Series, Sea Island, Ga., 2005 "People in Motion: African Americans and the World on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina," Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Knoxville, Tenn., 2004 Awards: SCAD Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, 2006 VAF Meeting Fieldwork Grant, 2005-7 VAF Ambassadors Fellowship, 2005 Georgia Humanities Council Grant for the fourth Savannah Symposium: Architecture and Regionalism, 2005 Georgia Humanities Council Grant for the third Savannah Symposium: Commemoration and the City, 2003 Memberships: American Historical Association American Studies Association Society of Architectural Historians Society for the History of Technology Vernacular Architecture Forum Vernacular Architecture Group (UK) Courses: American Vernacular Architecture American Architecture and Urbanism American Cultural Landscape 19th-century Architecture 20th-century Architecture History of the Urban Form Architectural History Methodology and Historiography Architectural Representations Research Methods in Architectural History
	Karl Schuler Savannah B.A., Humboldt State University; M.A., Ph.D., New York University. Karl F. Schuler, Ph.D., is a retired veteran with 27 years of combined service in the U. S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. Prior to joining the SCAD architectural history department in 1996, he served as a research assistant in the medieval department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as assistant editor of Gesta, the journal of the International Center of Medieval Art. He also has taught at Kean College, City University of New York, and Manhattanville College. His research interests include Spanish mission architecture of the Americas and American fortifications. Publications: "Seeking Institutional Identity in the Chapterhouse of Sigena," in "Shaping Sacred Space and Institutional Identity in Romanesque Mural Painting: Essays in Honor of Otto Demus," ed. Thomas Dale (Pinder Press, 2004). "Chapterhouse Decoration Before 1250," Arte Medievale No. 1-2 (Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1997; published 1999). Contributing author, "The Art of Medieval Spain, A.D. 500-1200" (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993). Presentations and lectures: "Forts Clinch and Gaines: Anomalies in Third System Philosophy," Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 2003. "A Victorine Biblical Primer in the Chapterhouse of Sigena," Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Inaugural Symposium, Barnard College, April 1995. "A Marginal Menagerie in the Chapterhouse of Sigena," Twenty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1994. Awards: Chester Dale Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Walter W.S. Cook Fellowship Amy Briggs Baldwin Scholarship Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Memberships: National Trust for Historic Preservation Society of Architectural Historians International Center of Medieval Art Vice President, Coastal Georgia Archaeological Society Tybee Island Historical Society Courses: Survey of Western Art I and II Introduction to Architectural History Medieval Art and Architecture Romanesque Art and Architecture Gothic Art and Architecture Monastic Architecture of the Western World American Fortified Architecture
	Robin Williams Savannah B.A., University of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

* Degree in progress or pending completion of thesis/dissertation